My roommate is a Tim Pool libertarian. "I'd support X progressive thing, but...". The system needs to exist as-is because he stands to benefit from it. He rents a bedroom in a basement, works in one of the most proletarianised industries at the bottom level, owns a vehicle he can't even drive without constant repairs, but he's a capitalist because it works.
Recently I found out what his path to capitalist success is. He's going to start a youtube channel where he gives music lessons on an instrument he began playing a year ago. The gimmick will be that the lessons are out in nature, for people who like learning about music with poorer audio quality than the other 41 million videos that pop up when I type "lesson". Despite youtube accounts being free he hasn't started this channel. When the channel makes him rich, he's going to invest those proceeds into opening a combination music school-outdoor recreation centre-hostel. He does not have a musicology degree or any ability to pay for one, nor for the insurance or land or buildings themselves.
They're all essentially that unless they're just an eternal child dependent on pa-pa. Some managed to get their little 7 acre kulak kastle by being a sociopathic parasite to everyone around them, but then they're crushed by the same system they're zealots for because the kids that make great flautists make terrible rock climbers. The bottom tier of those guys are the self-help gurus who are parasites on the asses of the parasites. Just the fucking worst.
Part of the problem is that people apparently find it easier to imagine a completely unrealistic series of career moves within the current system than to imagine a new system. The ideological hegemony of capitalism has completely crushed people's ability to conceive of a better world.
They're also sisyphean tragedies but they don't think about the boulder because they might eventually be able to break a pebble off of it. Whatever you tell them, every other voice they listen to is saying "I'm a god so I should know there's something cool up that mountain".
Reminds me of how liberal futurists when presented with automation did not go "Wow, humanity can now be finally free from work!" but instead thinks 'Who will buy products? Robots can't buy products, this will be bad for the economy!".
My roommate is a Tim Pool libertarian. "I'd support X progressive thing, but...". The system needs to exist as-is because he stands to benefit from it. He rents a bedroom in a basement, works in one of the most proletarianised industries at the bottom level, owns a vehicle he can't even drive without constant repairs, but he's a capitalist because it works.
Recently I found out what his path to capitalist success is. He's going to start a youtube channel where he gives music lessons on an instrument he began playing a year ago. The gimmick will be that the lessons are out in nature, for people who like learning about music with poorer audio quality than the other 41 million videos that pop up when I type "lesson". Despite youtube accounts being free he hasn't started this channel. When the channel makes him rich, he's going to invest those proceeds into opening a combination music school-outdoor recreation centre-hostel. He does not have a musicology degree or any ability to pay for one, nor for the insurance or land or buildings themselves.
They're all essentially that unless they're just an eternal child dependent on pa-pa. Some managed to get their little 7 acre kulak kastle by being a sociopathic parasite to everyone around them, but then they're crushed by the same system they're zealots for because the kids that make great flautists make terrible rock climbers. The bottom tier of those guys are the self-help gurus who are parasites on the asses of the parasites. Just the fucking worst.
Part of the problem is that people apparently find it easier to imagine a completely unrealistic series of career moves within the current system than to imagine a new system. The ideological hegemony of capitalism has completely crushed people's ability to conceive of a better world.
They're also sisyphean tragedies but they don't think about the boulder because they might eventually be able to break a pebble off of it. Whatever you tell them, every other voice they listen to is saying "I'm a god so I should know there's something cool up that mountain".
It's either this ideation form of acceptance, or it's just totally beaten down defeat and a refusal to think past the next shift.
Reminds me of how liberal futurists when presented with automation did not go "Wow, humanity can now be finally free from work!" but instead thinks 'Who will buy products? Robots can't buy products, this will be bad for the economy!".