Once capitalism achieved global domination, it began to have less need for the capacity of the nation state. Looting it while also weakening it is a two for one deal for the Musks of the world. Billionaires have become global citizens of an emergent and powerful nation that has no fixed home or name - ThreadSky

lronmexico.bsky.social • 112 days ago

Once capitalism achieved global domination, it began to have less need for the capacity of the nation state. Looting it while also weakening it is a two for one deal for the Musks of the world. Billionaires have become global citizens of an emergent and powerful nation that has no fixed home or name

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thorsribeiro.bsky.social•112 days ago

I wish @brankomilan.bsky.social would write a sequel to his text on Coase and the robber barons

klonniechron.bsky.social•112 days ago

📌

jadedietzdance.bsky.social•112 days ago

So I may as well just unalive myself now, sounds like...
I'm not going to, but some people will, and in fact already have, as a result of all this...

steamrob42.bsky.social•112 days ago

📌

toddthevegan.bsky.social•112 days ago

Reminds me of this monologue

cambp.bsky.social•112 days ago

This book discusses what you’re saying almost exactly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(Hardt_and_Negri_book)?wprov=sfti1

lronmexico.bsky.social•112 days ago

This looks like it’s extremely my shit thanks

cambp.bsky.social•112 days ago

You got it, it’s extremely dense and I admittedly haven’t finished it yet but I like what they have to say so far

nymne.bsky.social•112 days ago

The introduction of tariffs is kind of contradictory to that statement. Also the obsession with migration regulations

aao.bsky.social•112 days ago

It is kind of interesting that the ruling class doesn’t give a shit about American hegemony anymore. They’ve ascended beyond the need to be tied to a nation state, so they really don’t care if China overtakes us or whatever bullshit (I also don’t care about that but for different reasons)

aao.bsky.social•112 days ago

America is obviously in decline and they don’t care so why not loot it while they can

endmetothemoon.bsky.social•112 days ago

Exactly. The Nation state is vestigial to the modern capitalist, except as a source of funding. But, its only by convention that the nation state controls currency and its allocations. It isn't a law of nature

no1asseater.bsky.social•112 days ago

The nation state has also long been the mercenaries for the owner class

lronmexico.bsky.social•112 days ago

If you’re working class, it’s gonna be harder and harder to know what the right move is, to know what medicine is real, what foods are safe, where a hurricane will hit, even to know which laws have jurisdiction over you. “Facts” will continue to disintegrate.

lronmexico.bsky.social•112 days ago

We’ll exist under expanding and overlapping fiefdoms that will have to be navigated mostly with guile and vibes. What products, what music, what name for a body of water, etc. It will all be the rapidly shifting culture of a desperate populace reflecting the whims of their billionaire overlords

lronmexico.bsky.social•112 days ago

It will be truly disorienting: being so thoroughly fixed to our subjugation while also being so untethered from any consensus realty, jolting and twirling in the fog of a billionaire’s dream, trapped in some sort of proletarian murmuration

lronmexico.bsky.social•112 days ago

Capitalist ideology is a virus that has spread everywhere. Everyone having a spoonful of microplastics in their brain is such an apt metaphor and reminder. Once the entire world accepted that one person can own a mountain, a factory, a year or even an hour of another person’s life, we were fucked

lronmexico.bsky.social•112 days ago

That’s the program coded into our society that gives billionaires the ability to teleport and create almost instantaneously. They can be on a yacht in the Adriatic one day, a lodge in Patagonia the next. A factory shuttered here. One opened there. They control the media, our data, all of it

lronmexico.bsky.social•112 days ago

It also allows them to liquify us down, ladle us into pots, boil us into steam, freeze us into cubes, to form us as they see fit, all using this definition of ownership we ourselves have legitimized. It turns us into monsters and freaks.

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