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2024-03-08 07:21 UTC

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 4/n This is happening in creative industries, in higher education, in literature: the more “content” - a lecture, an article, a role in a film - becomes a commodity divorced from its creators, the less creators themselves are paid and valued; they are workers, labourers like everyone else, the value of whose labour gets extracted by capital. Capitalism isn’t over, replaced by #technofeudalism as some of claimed; it’s in full swing, in its purest form.

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@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green 2024-03-08 07:39

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 5/n Adding here a piece a group of us co-wrote at an #anthropology workshop, on “Understanding Growth”. This was experimental - co-writing on the spot! -, but i do come back to it: we distinguish between“Growth rooted in life” from “growth rooted in numbers”. Capitalism is pure number thinking. Obviously there are many real experts on all this (Marx, Pikkety for a start), this piece is left field! But just thought of it again in this context. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2023/10/26/anthropology-and-degrowth-where-to-next/

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