that's one reason why the opiate epidemic exists, and the fact that fascism always comes home.
of course workers were always disposable, but that trend seems to have accelerated. Do people these days even have jobs that last more than 3 years? It used to be that the bourgeoisie needed to care about the wellbeing of their slaves for their own profits sake.
He’s also like a techo-Kulak, a landlord of a massive section of this new cyberspace world that techbros like me are creating for him.
He's just a Kulak. Bill Gates is one of the biggest owners of land in the US and the biggest in ranching land. I do like your description of Gates and co trying to carve up cyberspace for their own rents, very good language for describing an abstract concept. Libertarians love him, but the only reason he is so rich is because the government enforces his ill-gotten gains.
It's referred to as "the second enclosure movement." The first being the invention of private fenced property in England and Europe
the great thing about the wage slave is that the capitalist doesn't need to care about it's wellbeing. every concession they've ever made was on the threat of violence & the spectre of communism, not 'profits sake'. we're weak and they're taking away our gains, which they've wanted to do since we got em.
capitalism works best when we're all living in 1840s london tenements working 12 hours a day to put not enough food on the table
That sucks. You might be able to bleach and dye the pants. It kind of depends on the material though.
