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Well said. But let us go deeper:

“Property must be destroyed before imagination can be developed any further.” (Berger)

“No matter how much it proclaims its pseudotolerance, the capitalist system in all its forms (family, school, factories, army, codes, discourse…) continues to subjugate all desires, sexuality, and affects to the dictatorship of its totalitarian organization, founded on exploitation, property, male power, profit, productivity… Tirelessly it continues its dirty work of castrating, suppressing, torturing, and dividing up our bodies in order to inscribe its laws on our flesh, in order to rivet to our subconscious its mechanisms for reproducing this system of enslavement. With its throttling, its stasis, its lesions, its neuroses, the capitalist state imposes its norms, establishes its models, imprints its features, assigns its roles, propagates its programs… Using every available access route into our organisms, it insinuates into the depths of our insides its roots of death. It usurps our organs, disrupts our vital functions, mutilates our pleasures, subjugates all lived experience to the control of its condemning judgments.” (Guattari)



The capitalist system is bad --- except for all the other systems which are arguably even worse.

The fact that you own a computer capable of making your post is a testament to the evil effectiveness of capitalism.


The nerds who actually made technology possible did not care a bit about money. Now, capital did make mass technology possible. But it cannot have pure innovation, only financial and operations engineering.


The nerds who actually made technology possible did not care a bit about money.

Easily proven false.

I know a lot of nerds/geeks who make technology possible --- I'm one of them. And virtually all of them have a job of some sort working for money.


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