what do y’all think of this? It makes some good points and Micheal Hudson is probably not right, but I have one criticism to make. One of his arguments that the richest people are still industrial capitalists (because they started businesses that do stuff), not finance capitalists, but as Cory Doctorow points out, those companies are basically just rentiers at this point. Amazon makes most of its money hosting other businesses on their site, “Meta” makes most of its money hosting being a middleman connecting advertisers and unpaid content creators poorly. Thus, it seems at least the emperial core has increased rentierism. This doesn’t mean it’s not built on peripheral industry and that reindustrializing the west would benefit average people, but it does seem to be good news about the decline of empire. Other thoughts?

  • QueerCommieOP
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    1 year ago

    I think the insanity is the extent to which he is terminally online, not necessarily that he will reply to anyone.

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        1 year ago

        Can you please let me know how often I should post such that I am neither terminally online nor suspiciously off-line?

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          Lol, that’s not what I meant I find the weak “too/under online” comments annoying