Reading economic theory published today is a fucking slog, let alone economic theory from 150 years ago. I don’t think anyone is going “Well I was gonna spend my evening reading this economics textbook, but I think a more efficient use of my time would be to watch a twitch stream!”
You should read Marx, but don’t act like it’s filling the same need as watching silly people play video games on the internet
This is a very thoughtful post. I just want to add that not all twitch streams are playing videos games. There are a lot of twitch streams that are just a person talking to their camera and/or the twitch chat. For example, Matt Christman of chapo regularly goes to twitch to yell about Marxism for about an hour and then logs off. I have found that there are around 40-50 decent sized channels with people who just talk to their camera about leftism.
Reading economic theory published today is a fucking slog, let alone economic theory from 150 years ago. I don’t think anyone is going “Well I was gonna spend my evening reading this economics textbook, but I think a more efficient use of my time would be to watch a twitch stream!”
You should read Marx, but don’t act like it’s filling the same need as watching silly people play video games on the internet
This is a very thoughtful post. I just want to add that not all twitch streams are playing videos games. There are a lot of twitch streams that are just a person talking to their camera and/or the twitch chat. For example, Matt Christman of chapo regularly goes to twitch to yell about Marxism for about an hour and then logs off. I have found that there are around 40-50 decent sized channels with people who just talk to their camera about leftism.