Can’t stop thinking about this in the context of tech. Of course technological advances are a good thing, but isn’t there a point where progress for the sake of progress stifles any productive use? Who exactly is benefiting here? A decade or so ago, I was still able to communicate how I’m communicating now, but things have gotten substantially worse.
I’m looking at the state of the internet and can’t help but look at how every algorithmic breakthrough has just been used to gather data for marketing purposes or targeted advertisements. Lmao and I don’t even know how you can consider that progress to be honest.
The wildest part about this is that you don’t even need to be a leftist to agree. Everyone hates targeted ads and marketing bullshit besides people who make money in marketing and advertisement.
I truly believe
was onto something. Too bad he was an eco fascist and is rightly regarded as completely unhinged.
He was only partially correct. Development and increases in productivity are all good. However those increases require artificial inflation of consumer markets to remain profitable and lead to crises of overproduction and ecological ruin.
When you remove profitability and standardize the capacity of consumer markets along needs, you reduce working hours, increase productivity, and decrease waste.
The issue is that
never really drew the connection between growth of markets and production to feed capitals and growth of production to reduce laboring hours.
He continued the proud radical liberal tradition of eschewing Marxism in favor of trying to solve capitalism on its own terms.