Late Capitalism

[Mark Kohut]

nice riff and Capital is also pure money. Assets unanchored to labor NOW
that can make more money 'in investments" of one kind or another.
Tech money is airless, rootless, created out of itself and thin air.
Promises.

That is coming up in BE, I suggest.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 1:27 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>
> And what is capital? And how did it get ismized?   Capital is sometimes
> thought of as “the means of production”, already pretty far along in a
> certain model of thinking with mass production in mind. What are the means
> of production for a fig tree or Yosemite’s half dome. A river full of wild
> trout, crawfish, ducks, turtles, a prairie covered with bison, pigeons, oak
> trees, crows.  I think capital is rooted in the idea of  a magic machine
> able to endow its controller with potentially unlimited  wealth and power.
> A jack tale that wore out its welcome a while back.. What is wealth? What
> is Power. The idea seems to me to be leaving something out of the reality
> of biological existence. Is power to enslave  capital? Are atomic weapons
> capital? Is nonstick plastic on a frypan capital? Is poison capital? Why is
> capital so fucking dangerous? Is untapped agression and hunger for violent
> domination capital? Money is a marker for what the economic system owes
> you. Is biological life a system of banking and debt? Is winning the money
> game any better than eating an apple right now, from a tree you planted,
> really tasting it, breathing clean air surrounded by living beings  ?
>   As rich  and Pynchon both point out the system is huge and very hard to
> tinker with, but it does have geographic and physical realities ,
> equipment, names, faces and shitloads of weaponry,   all of which were made
> without without regard for certain real limits. Thise limits are becoming
> evident and the fragility of this seemingly un changeable machinery is
> also  becoming more evident. Every former empire looked invincible, but
> even a flea can bring down an empire. And how inviceable is something that
> needs to be so scary, so demonically driven?
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