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You’re making a distinction between
- Seeking power for profit
- Seeking profit for power
How would we empirically tell which is happening?
Why does someone with €20 billion strive to get €30 billion? Will that get them nicer food or a softer bed?
In non-monetary historical societies, the rulers still sought power.
The ruling class, the capitalists, don’t do evil things for the sake of power or control. They do it for profits
Are those very different things? Wealth certainly grants power and control, no?
Having said that, I agree with the spirit of your comment.
81·3 months agoThat looked ok and I was nodding along until I got to the part where it’ll be governed by Blair and Trump.
why the lying war criminal Blair?
because he has a sterling track record of fixing Middle Eastern countries, of course!
1·3 months agoJust bring it in
Demanding to grow all the food and produce all the energy in situ is an odd constraint.
344·3 months agoRightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’
That’s incorrect. ‘Censorious’ means quick to censure
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/censorious
31·3 months agoWelcome to tankie.tube Mr President
Pity he was banned. I was curious to see what his specific points were.
There’s some interesting discussions to be had of Marx’s writings on electoralism, revolution, and republics.
What thinking did he criticise so literally?
What’s that im reference to?
3·3 months agoWait is the title a typo and should say 28 million?
564 258 deaths per year for fifty years?
Where does the paper say 38 million?
Modi is shorter than I’d realised.
2·4 months agoShe’s an “analog astronaut”, i.e. earthbound
Bets on the nationality of the person who made the meme?
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