mfs trying the whitewash capitalism by calling the latest stages of capitalism "techno-feudalism"
If we just keep inventing new words to describe "the consequences of capitalism" then we never have to tackle the consequences of capitalism. I am a genius
https://hexbear.net/post/208134 i like yannis but i think my point still stands
Yanis... this is the 7th week in a row you've shown Silicon Serfdom in class.
The biggest problem with all the various techno-neofeudalism theses is they treat the internet like its a free gift of nature and not as the extremely expensive and energy intensive infrastructure that it is. Aside from the historical illiteracy of course.
Also I haven't seen a version that deals with food production. You can't eat data. And can we please stop paying attention to these (literal) losers, Varoufakis, Corbin, Sanders, etc. they're only useful to know what not to do.
Edit: After skimming the article ... he clearly does not keep up with tech at all. The 'cloud' is dying and has been for awhile. Companies are increasingly self-hosting instead of using cloud platforms because surprise surprise, the 'cloud' is owned by capitalists who have to keep extracting more and more profit and since their market share isn't going up anymore they have to squeeze it out in other ways, increased ads, slower speeds or just raising rates, etc.
Every time Yannis describes technofeudalism he just describes neoliberalism.
And neoliberalism 'achieves the goals of fascism with the veneer of democracy'
Yes, yes, put the mechanisms of structural control on the fragile servers... good!
er, I mean, bad! So scary! I, as a pink blooded liberal communist hippy woke america-hater, would really really rather you did not provide an easy point of failure in the form of flooding or electromagnetism or poorly ventilated dust
I've enjoyed some interviews with him, but even if this was something different than capitalism, would it matter?
Capitalism is a cancer. If your doctor told you your cancer was now something different, but was still going to kill you just the same, it wouldn't matter.
