The peculiarities of capitalist ideology prevent its adherents from seeing what’s happening, it precludes the simple concept that runs counter to so much capitalist fiction “what can be individually rational can be collectively disastrous” the “rationale” usually being a mix of careerism, racism and zombie ideas that were crammed into their heads by neoclassical professors, all of which is reinforced by self-referential media

It all originates from the core of neoclassical economics; where the social relations of production are broken down into a simple black box, where labor goes in and capital comes out and class is never involved, it’s purely technical, binary thinking manifest

This meme has slowly worked its way up the food chain; where now there is no such thing as micro or macro, material, resource constraints, struggle, nature, power, unforeseen variables, nope only a black box where rules go in and policy comes out, binary

And look it’s made me the politician who worships this black box of capital a millionaire so obviously it’s God