gyattfly.bsky.social
Are you in a union? Do you know your neighbors?
If it were easy, everyone would do it. If everybody did it, it would be easy.
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Been having one of these in my Cook Out tray ever since they were released. Mickey D's just learning how to play.
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You should really stop to pause when you start making "these people shouldn't be humanized" type arguments.
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Is there a meaningful difference btw a podcast guy and a LLM?
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This smells like chatgpt prose
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After you read the book you're criticizing, you should read how ethnography is done.
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Without doing a thorough search of the text, I believe not. It's listed as an example of a job that can be bullshit in the "flunkie" way. The book is interested in how jobs can be BS, not which jobs are.
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Seeing as you're inventing what he wrote, idk.
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Did you read the book? That was his methodology. You could critique his actual work if you wanted to.
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Sorry, but you're making a lot of strawmen here. Graeber wrote that some/many, but not all, instances of these jobs are BS. He got these examples from workers who self-reported.
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This is inferential, but Graeber was an anarchist—no state, no laws, no lawyers (at least not as we know them now). Seems to me corporate lawyers are BS for the same reason you say lobbyists are BS.
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The market anarchist (not ancap) response is that capitalist monopolies are only possible bc of the hierarchical state. Remove barriers to market entry, like financial monopoly, IP protection, and, yes, regulations, and freed market competition and worker ownership defeat the power grab.
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Was the plane trans?
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For tankies to be a threat they're gonna have to actually get a few tanks. For now, I have no fear of the Honda Civicies.
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That's literally the thesis of this book
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Better yet, call it recall and allow citizens to initiate it by petition and confirm it by direct popular vote.
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Nothing could be more ineffectual than placing the blame for this situation on the relatively-less-powerless. Yell at politicians. They're way up there, and they disdain you.
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Yep! Libraries and wiki aren't new techs. I know what they can do. They can't draft a dues structure or cross-compare consensus models.
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Just to add some nuance, I've been finding chatgpt very useful for researching and constructing bylaws for grassroots organizations. Libraries and Wikipedia can't do that.
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Sounds like I've been living under authoritarianism for my entire life.
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"There are older people who suck, as we just saw" 😆
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Ah, so your views are more odious and facile than I presumed. Nice.
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White guilt is not politically useful. Go find yourself some real ideas.
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It could be formatted like a weekly market—everyone congregates to bring what they have, goods and services, to sell, trade, or giveaway. Keep it decentralized, except for coordinating organizers, kind of like a micro-burning man.
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I have no faith that the oppositional institutions that be will do anything more than slow the regime down. As has repeatedly been the case throughout history, true change comes at the hands of the people, who will build for themselves the new world from the ashes of the old.
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The only argument the anarchists would make is to abolish the congress.
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And the Trump administration was caused by South Park
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I wonder, how much would prices decline if we were to abolish altogether the parasitism that is rentiering?
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Insults only work when the target has dignity.
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I think you may be referring to consumer goods, whereas commodities are specifically goods which acquire an exchange value on the market. Orthodox communism seeks to abolish that system called capitalism. I don't think it's possible, so I'd rather fight against capitalism's despotism, not it itself.
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I agree with that. I also think that communism succumbs to some pretty severe contradictions re. the abolition of commodities, as we've just indicated.
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How would this happen? I haven't heard any ideas that aren't either a reinvention of money or some kind of authority-enforced social credit.
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I'm not sure it was a matter of headstart—Obama got there before most anybody. I think it's more a matter of the profit model of online media being far more conducive to cynical demogoguery than anything resembling reasoned, critical discussion.
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What if we just didn't?
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That is 100% my point. Without power, all there'd be is voluntary association and mutually beneficial business.
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Borrowing from Graeber, there are three main kinds: phys violence, sequestration of information, and manipulation of social influence. They developed bc they're obvious to leverage for exploitation. Dismantling them involves id'ing them, resisting them, and designing counter-systems to replace them.
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Anti-statism and anti-capitalism are clumsy distractions from the universal problem of power. It's what underlies all the other tyrannies we face. Can we abolish ethnicity to end racism? No, but we can dismantle the tools of oppression to turn race and wealth into things socially indifferent.
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There are plenty of spec functions that would still need admin, spc'ly natural or efficient monopolies, like roads and health insurance. These would require quasi-state orgs, e.g. pop assemblies. But no need for contract enforcement: things like collateral and mutual investment can ensure fair biz.
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I need everyone in labor to study Operation Dixie right now. Racism is probably the single biggest factor that has prevented the success of the movement.
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The state is just a bundle of monopolies holding a gun. Take away the gun—e.g. by constitutional amendment, achieved by militant struggle—and it loses its monopolies. What makes the proles and bourg a class system is their relationship to power. Deconstruct power itself, and classes wither away.
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Right, that's the despotism of capital I think we can and should end by ending state coercion. But you haven't described how the mode is supposed to go away. Does it become obsolete and wither, or does the state snuff it out? I don't know any compelling evidence or theory for either possibility.
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That's a valid critique, and tbh I'm not enough of an econ wonk to provide a thorough reply, but I do know that most communist projects gravitate towards market socialism, and many anarchists advocate for it as well. I think it's where the soil is rich.
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We can't seem to avoid having markets and money, and I don't see how historical/dialectical materialism are supposed to prove their inevitable abolition. Therefor, I'm devoted to the struggle against power, not economics.
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I suppose that's the distinct thing I'm critiquing. "Capitalism" seems to mean both the mode of production (commodities) and the (state enforced) right of power and expropriation due to the owners of capital. I think we should end the latter but that the former is unavoidable in a free society.
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This despotism could be resolved by a reinvention of property right—i.e. the ownership of exchange value should not confer the right to dictate use value. Capitalists should be free to invest in stock, but workers should have full autonomy in production and control over profits.
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That the CCP are rn the world's best capitalists is part of what I mean. Communism is resource and labor distribution w/o commodification, and it only works well in limited applications. The 'big bad' of our age is the despotism of capital, not capital itself.
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They seized power from the old masters of capitalism and became capitalarchs themselves. The problem isn't with capitalism per se—commodities and markets—it's with the authoritarian systems that allow the holders of capital to dictate labor, empowered by violent state coercion.