dada » Mon Feb 01, 2021 12:55 am wrote:I don't take issue with the breakdown of the numbers, it's the simplification of society into purely economic terms. Like we're all just sims with indicators of our financial worrh hovering over our heads.
Come on. It's about power. And who exercises it. With what logic. Which drives. To what end. With what effects. It's about how the "purely economic" (as accounted under capitalist terms at any given time) forcibly reduces anything else to purely economic. Or else it's worthless, and put into the queue for extinction, if it can't find a way to monetize. How this forecloses possibilities for life not measurable in economic terms, including all the good stuff you'd rather be. That's what simplifies society. Identifying it in a comprehensible, catchy way is merely a move to make what is already manifest more observable. And all this you know. I don't usually see you engaging in quite such denial.
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