i am gladly blaming capitalism for everything.


At 12:17 22.09.2020, you wrote:
>Blaming capitalism is a little short-sighted. There would be no
>standard oil without JP Morgan money. Corporate monopolies are not a
>product of capitalism per-se. It's the financial sector with their
>puppet government regimes that creates them, feeds them
>inovations(gov sponsored R&D, foss movement, startup "culture"), and
>keeps them alive via corruption and "free market" or "consumer
>protection" or "environmen protection" regulations(yes, 99% of all
>environmental movements are a rich man's trick Alice). With an army
>of a new type (or a new kind) of aristocracy and nobility spread
>across all layers of society from hackerspaces to NGOs to media up
>to upper management of various corporations..to keep you - the
>well-meaning good-hearted, naive idiot - fighting to bring about
>your own enslavement, thinking you are actually doing something
>good. Interrestingly, it appears *to me* that the financial sectors
>image of a not-so-distant future is far worse than what Karl Marxes
>wet dream would be - which then begs the question whether they are
>not fostering this corporate destruction of our planet themselves so
>that (naive) people would actually beg for, cheer and welcome the
>arrival of a new "global gulag" system they invisioned (as every
>ruling class has since the dawn of society), a system wrapped in
>some fairy-tails abou environmental protection, freedom, human
>rights - you know, rainbow unicorn wrapping paper
>
>idnc_sk
>
>
>
>On Tuesday, 22.09.2020 at 8:30 hellekin wrote:
>Why the quotes in "for all"? As the global capitalist society continues,
>we do not have enough drinkable water for all humans, let alone the rest
>of the living. We've seen countless times how much water is used by
>extractivist companies to remove metals or hydrocarbons from the ground,
>and how these processes pollute water beyond sanity. As they do it with
>impunity, I guess hackers would be able to stop them in their tracks by
>extracting compromising information from them, or killing their
>machines. At some point, DIY is not enough: you can certainly help build
>water filters and purifiers from citizen science, but you cannot simply
>stop the harm made to rivers, cultures who protect them, and stop the
>massive fabrication of metal-based and oil-based products, including
>vehicles and computers. It's war that makes capitalism possible, maybe
>it's time to wage war on capitalism.
>
>==
>hk
>
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