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Karl Marx believed that technology would free laborers from the constraints of capital by enabling them greater productivity with less work. That didnât turn out to be the case. Capitalists controlled the technology, so they pocketed the value difference created by it, and just had laborers working for less money.
Centralization of technology was the catch. If Marx were writing today, I believe he would say the same but with the added call for decentralized technology which puts the power of tech into the hands of the masses Marx would be a raging Bitcoiner and Nostrich
All thoughtful responses, thank you. People donât seem shy about using nostr to share photos. I will study on controlling oneâs exit information a bit. Is there a similar option for iOS devices?
The unprecedented rate of loss of biodiversity is a tragedy of our making.
Iâm suspicious that when one posts a photo, theyâre revealing some unintended metadata.
Can someone comment on that?
And get that flipping right 78 times and youâre still just stuck with a worthless fiat coin. Jokeâs on you. Mine Bitcoin!
Stay off of exchanges. Bitcoin was created as a peer-to-peer electronic currency. Keep it that way.
A house is not an investment as long as a man has to pay for it twice.
A thirty year mortgage means a man buys the house once from the seller, and a second time from the bank.
Nostr is a death sentence to limited data plans
Orwellâs #DystopianVision is Coming True
#Orwell wanted to be certain that the kind of future presented in the novel should never come to pass, even though the practices that contribute to the development of such a state were abundantly present in his time.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/03/30/orwells-dystopian-vision-is-coming-true/
Progressive writers warned our parents about everything thatâs happening now. I guess our parents didnât read.
I would have liked to have asked Satoshi a bit more about this.
Intelligent machines replacing workers and creating a deflationary environment was supposed to be great, as it was expected that workers would be able to work less and buy more due to greater efficiency within the system.
In reality, those that leverage the capital never made those returns available to the workers, but extracted more profits for themselves while leaving the jobless destitute.
Weâre terrified of public opinion from the moment weâre born, partially due to religious training, partially due to an educational system that is not very interested in educating us.
What, really, the rulers want are docile workers, who refuse to have anything to do say about minimum wage or labor unions, and passionate consumersâŚ
Gore Vidal
History of the National Security State
Book recommendation:
âAmericaâs Deadliest Export: Democracy. The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else.â
By William Blum
When they bombed Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador and Nicaragua I said nothing because I wasnât a communist.
When they bombed China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, and the Congo I said nothing because I didnât know about it.
When they bombed Lebanon and Grenada I said nothing because I didnât understand it.
When they bombed Panama I said nothing because I wasnât a drug dealer.
When they bombed Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen I said nothing because I wasnât a terrorist.
When they bombed Yugoslavia and Libya for âhumanitarianâ reasons I said nothing because it sounded honorable.
Then they bombed my house and there was no one left to speak out for me. But it didnât really matter. I was dead.
The US, once again selling xenophobia to the masses. Todayâs victim: 1.5 billion people in a country on the other side of the world.
China is not a threat to the U.S. because of TicToc. Even as an economic threat, it has already won. China has stayed the course in becoming an industrialized, productive nation. The United States has given into neoconservatives who traded industrialization for finance capitalism and its associated passing around and reframing of dollars. Now we produce nothing, because rent extraction from citizens is easier and more profitable for the oligarchy.