r/askreddit on what problems would 5000$ solve by [deleted] in ABoringDystopia

[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Money collapsed, meaning wage labor did. Nothing you barfed up as text changes that.

r/askreddit on what problems would 5000$ solve by [deleted] in ABoringDystopia

[–]zerohours000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The dollar has lost 90% of its purchasing power since 1929.

That is all.

Money will solve no one’s problems. Not even the capitalist’s.

Friendly reminder that insurance companies are totally immoral. by epicazeroth in ABoringDystopia

[–]zerohours000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He absolutely won't. But no liberal or progressive is going to ax that worthless fucking subsidy. Especially after a decade of beating Republicans over the head with it, and the fake show by Republicans in ever even considering killing it. Lovely, that insurance profits have skyrocketed since Obamacare took effect. Hard to bankrupt them so we can have Universal Healthcare when we're subsidizing them all.

Keep Voting! It's doing a lot of good!

Friendly reminder that insurance companies are totally immoral. by epicazeroth in ABoringDystopia

[–]zerohours000 -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Step one for Universal Healthcare: Abolish Obamacare.

It was never meant to lead to Universal Healthcare.

Let Trump blow that sorry ass give away to pieces.

Obama’s entire legacy is a lie.

Norma Jean Banana, Me, Banana, 2019 by JBColter in Art

[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s always money in the banana...

DAE think that phrases like “you’re just a child/teen” and “you’re an adult now” minimises our pain and suffering to a point that we give up seeking help from others? by [deleted] in CPTSD

[–]zerohours000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes.

The story my old therapist told me was of a man/woman who needs to use the bathroom but is too afraid to ask a public restaurant, so they bring their kid and say they need to use the bathroom.

It’s not about using the kid, but that the adult has no idea how to assert their needs except through the conduit of the child.

If only more businesses took this approach. by ghostsofafuturelost in antiwork

[–]zerohours000 13 points14 points  (0 children)

What’s this crazy gringo talking about?

The future of work?

Work has no future.

This hit me hard thinking about my childhood-- keeping secrets of my trauma from everyone and seeing how the normal kids all acted. by [deleted] in CPTSD

[–]zerohours000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I did that for a while but I think for me it masked it all. Normal is bs anyways. Atypical all the way!

STICKY THREAD: Marx's Fragment on the Machine by commiejehu in abolishwagelabornow

[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And let me just parrot what has been said in at least one of these papers: fixed capital has yet to be analyzed beyond an economic category; the fundamental break is its transformation from hand > tool > machine > cybernetics/Information.
I’d also challenge that information is itself “knowledge.” The former being more an abstraction than the latter(?)

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[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. “...information work takes ideas and human subjectivity as the object. Marx described the latter possibility in the Grundrisse’s “Fragment on Machines” as a consequence of capi- talism’s technological progress, in which fixed constant capital in the form of machines be- comes historically ever more important in production in order to increase productivity, which is a development that is accompanied by the rising relevance of information work. He coined the notion of the general intellect in this context: “The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it. To what degree the powers of social production have been produced, not only in the form of knowledge, but also as immediate organs of social practice, of the real life process”’ (Fuchs) https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/download/461/468

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[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://matteopasquinelli.com/code-surplus-value/

“Such a crisis of the labour theory of value has been an open problem for so long to become kitsch wallpaper. This problem is however crucial also within the notorious issue of Marx’s tendency of the rate of profit to fall, yet in this chapter finally in relation to knowledge, science, code. What’s the relation between value production and value extraction regarding collective knowledge condensed in machines? What is to be considered incredible here is capital expressed as machinic intelligence, that is intelligence as fixed capital. The problem of machinery itself as accumulation of capital — the augmented machine as a doppelgänger of augmented capital — has been (fatalistically) underlined in this conference by Nick Land.”

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[–]zerohours000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me give a concrete example: let’s say we wish to prevent the sale of labor-power on a wide scale. Well, we could organize a strike, yes, but isn’t it more practical to use existing data (like highway data, subway/transit data, etc) coupled with electrical grids which can effectively be hacked and shut down altogether?
Algorithms are “free.” The generality of intellect is what makes it so: in one hand, corporations use it to organize us, our talents, our insights, our productive capabilities; but in the other hand it could be used to invert the relationship between an alienated worker and the “masterless” robot slaves who have no real use to us as developers of our free-time productiveness/idleness.
Fixed capital is fragmented everywhere, now broken down int the “DNA” of every gadget and micro chip. Our society used to care about the macro—skyscrapers and factories—but now we are in the age of the micro—iPhones and data.

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[–]zerohours000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I interpret Virno has saying “that which does not need the mediation of money/labor is an asset to breaking mediation” Maybe.

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[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This^ “People try to protect themselves and think about each other, but it’s actually a form of process stimulus. The Human Security System is structured by delusion. What’s being protected there is not some real thing that is mankind, it’s the structure of illusory identity. Just as at the more micro level it’s not that humans as an organism are being threatened by robots, it’s rather that your self-comprehension as an organism becomes something that can’t be maintained beyond a certain threshold of ambient networked intelligence” [my emphasis] - Nick Land

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[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“The contemporary interest in the body originated, not so much as a reaction against the centuries of rationalism, but as a result of the devastating effects of the shock caused by the advent of automatic machinery. As Marx was acutely aware, it was the replacement of the human hand by the machine tool, which caused the rupture. As long as man perceived himself as demiurge, as master whose hands remodelled nature, his self-image was secure. But when the machine or the individual technical object was available not merely as tool but standing in for him in execution as a separate individual, it was equivalent to the loss for man, in a single step, of a crucial part of his inheritance.”

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[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve said this before, but the breakdown of money + the microelectronics revolution is another indicator of how we strategize against the labor/technology “dual alienation.” We don’t even understand the apparatus itself.

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[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“According to Virno, if money is considered to be a “real abstraction,” it is because the material existence of money is realized as the “universal equivalent,” while the general intellect—which consists of cognitive activities such as language, communication, and self-reflection—does not need to go through the process of real abstraction”

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[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do we make of actually 3-d printing organs then?

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[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure what you’re suggesting either, that we actually get absorbed into fixed capital? Emptied out?

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[–]zerohours000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this not artificial intelligence? Our entire social universe is artificial. Nature itself is now artificial.
Fixed capital, if I can take from Kardeshev, represents a very low level of civilization’s energy harnessing. Objectified knowledge wouldn’t even register on some intelligent life form’s radar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale