Are people using capital to acquire more capital to then undertake more capital-intensive endeavors? Yes? Then it’s still capitalism.
At this point I think Varoufakis only continues to rant his drivel in order to feel better about being a rich capitalist himself.
America is a terrifyingly broken country.
It’s like ‘every day is backwards day’ crossed with an infinitely-recursive manifold.
I saw a headline this morning that hedge fund managers are bullish on diesel. And the logic here seems to check out from what I skimmed. Will be interesting to see how this develops. A consumption downturn might kick the can out further.
I do support the argument that further complexifying essentials before the great decomplexification is a bad idea. However, burning a ton of fossil fuels to build alternative power sources is not a solution unless it is basically free energy - renewable alone is not sufficient justification. We need volitional degrowth. We won’t get it, but that’s what we need.
Not to diminish any particular arguments, but this is how these conversations always play out in my view:
Stop burning fossil fuels.
But we are in overshoot.
Yes
But we won’t be able to keep up agriculture.
Yes
But we won’t be able to keep up industry
Yes
But we won’t be able to keep up consumerism
Yes
But people will die.
Yes :(
But the rich will loses their riches
Yes
but but but
It doesn’t matter what the cost is, that’s the solution. The rest is simply consequence - and it grows greater by each day we ignore it.
Just because an ask is nigh impossible, does not mean that it is foolish or that it comes from ignorance.
c/collapse… such a lovely sound to it, even here at the end of civilization.
(refering to having decentralized from r/spaces)
And advertising customers. Great company all around.
The elite are trying to whip everyone back to the office to avoid a commercial real estate crash.
Yes, but I’m surprised the author doesn’t even mention CMBSs.
Hm. Maybe I’m missing something but I’m not seeing a million ‘successful’ AI startups pop up overnight like during the Dot Com Bubble. Most of the AI investments I’ve seen have been from major corporations that can pivot and eat a little loss. I do see several resume and business-plan writing services but it just doesn’t seem like much of a parallel, to me.
The article doesn’t address this disparity, it just pretends like it’s an equivalency - citing only megacaps like GOOG, MSFT, etc. Clickbait headline, I guess.
twitch plays pokemon, airliner edition
aka building dual power
It’s been awhile… maybe Bernard Green and The First Three Centuries?
To one extent every religion is.
Yes! History is a tale of cyclical power struggles. I disagree that every religion is syncretic but in principle that’s right. It’s exactly why this headline exists!
I am not quite seeing however what Biblical Jesus borrowed from Rome that the Jews of the area hadn’t already. Can you list some examples?
No I cannot because Biblical Jesus wasn’t real, whether historic Jesus was or not.
The human being that is most recognized as being the inspiration for Jesus had nothing to do with the Bible or the stories in it. The first hint to this should be that many Biblical stories predate the preacher, of course with different characters in the originals. Jesus was simply the device needed to create the opportunity to rewrite regional beliefs in a format more compatible with the contemporary nation-states.
It was non-contemporaneous authors that made Christianity what it is, not some Jesus character. During the time of Jesus around a century after iirc, the practices now called Christianity were not present. There was a very ambiguous and locally varied new twist on the old stories, but Christianity did not start with Jesus as a singular point and then branch from there. Christianity started as an influence on existing religions that slowly tied together disparate branches with a story that became more and more consistent only after it had been around for generations. When his name first started to be used to retell these stories, 2000 years ago or so, there was little agreement on who Jesus was or what he preached. And so the things Jesus is claimed to have said now, are not the same things they were claiming he said back then, which were themselves removed from what the human preacher actually preached (which is currently understood to have been pretty standard teachings for the time and region).
And so, as a character in a story, Biblical Jesus was not an entity that ever had agency. He couldn’t “borrow” anything.
Really only discussing what Biblical Jesus is supposed to have said.
Then you must pay attention to who wrote his lines! It was Rome. Forget the Bible, if you want to learn the answers to your questions, then go read history books to understand the actions that went along with the words. Christianity was the vessel for Roman colonialism.
If you’re too attached to approach it without biases, you could study Islam instead. After understanding the history of Islam, the history of Christianity should become easier to understand for Christians.
Christianity is syncretic - is that not inherently subversive of the source?
And in this way it created common ground regional cultures, but the direction of the syncretization was also that of Romanization - the new mythos served to legitimize the earthly authority of Rome (and their territorial claims) in a way the teachings of the Jewish tribes had not.
You’re right. His teachings (on how the individual should act) are politics, and they are viable as the basis for a political system. It was actually put into practice, too, in monasteries and other communes.
I think the problem stems from cognitive dissonance. The popular political ideology that most closely reflect his neighborly teachings, is anarcho-communism. That is the exact opposite ideology from fascism (i.e., in-group authoritarianism) which is the ideology practiced by most of his adherents.
They are motivated to find ways to convince themselves and others that the teachings aren’t political, so that they don’t have to reconcile the teachings of their in-group identifier/shibboleth with their practices in the real world.
(I’m not saying this is why everyone says it isn’t political, I’m saying that this is the source of the meme that religion-isn’t-political.)
Was the Romanization of Judaism not subversive in-and-of itself?
I totaly get the need for fair compensation and they should totally get that, no question
Great!
but is it a good idea to strike in the health industry?
Oh, but I do see some questions here haha. I see your point, but to that end:
There have to be better options, no?
No, there really aren’t. All labor has is collective action (and although it seems crazy doctors are usually working class) . It’s the only way they’ve ever made progress, and where they lack it, workers’ rights are always eroded.
If healthcare never paid a decent wage in the first place, there wouldn’t be highly-skilled doctors and the population wouldn’t be at risk from suffering from a healthcare strike - because they would just be suffering day in and day out instead.
The story actually gives the background of the holes. They were dug by humans. They aren’t supernatural and didn’t appear from nowhere, they emerged from older sediment layers that were raised back to the surface again after an earthquake. The story doesn’t specifically say it, but it implicitly builds on ideas the predominant religion in Japan - syncretic Buddhism - which is common for any literature and would be recognized readily in Japanese audiences. These people committed crimes and were punished in the past, and now they have been reborn again. Like all people they are ignorant to their past lives in normal situations, but their ‘souls’ are still bound to and resonate with the same infinitely continuous karmic system.
Lemmy is acting weird so I can’t go back and quote, but no, you phrased your attribution in reverse at least once.
He’s had a very visible career so it’s actually pretty clear what his views are. He is not at all a socialist, he is a SocDem. He likes neoliberalism with some safety nets.