People complain about the atomization performed by "capital", yet in almost all contexts ask to be left alone, for people to stay out of their business. They tire in every way of how their life is meddled with...
People complain about the homogenization performed by "capital", yet in almost all contexts they extol homogenization; consider how many say "but these things would only work in a homogeneous society..."
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It seems that "capital's" sinister power ... is nothing other than what Americans want to begin with. Like any factory-produced product, it's different than what you imagine, but a market it a market....
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Now... perhaps you will say, "well okay maybe what you're saying is sort of true, but this isn't the atomization and homogenization they wanted!" Concerning that, they always had the option not to buy into any of this -- but the desires created the incentives...
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Then you may say "granted they wanted this, but they don't trust who is providing it"-- perhaps, but then we understand what happened; it started in the time when they DID trust the capitalists providing it. Ownership has passed into less trustworthy hands, perhaps...
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Thus we have a deeper critique of those in America who critique "capital", left or right - their fathers were all for these forces when it was "their guys" in charge. It is like Jesus says to the Pharisees: "you condemn yourself, because your fathers killed the prophets.."
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"we gave the pharma companies all of our money to make vaccines, and then they decided to make opiods with it instead...." ... soon they will lament, "we gave them all of our money to make solar panels, and now they are making solar-powered drones to oppress us..."
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This happened with google: "we gave them our trust and money to keep our information, and now they are selling our information!" -- "why do they sell my information," the man who sells his information [for free] 24/7 on social media, laments.
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in a way, this is like meeting a person, and you will only give them 100 dollars for a certain reason; but once they have the 100 dollars, it's theirs to use as they see fit. Americans seem to think they can scold him very forcefully to stop misuse of their funds.
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As it was pointed out, concerning the relations even in the 19th century, it's a failure of politics to even believe that a person with tremendous resources and an ordinary person could be thought to be entering into some kind of equal contract; applies to government and biz.
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This is another way of saying that the lamented fallacies of a hiring contract which gave rise to unions are nothing other than the fallacies of democracy itself.
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(the logic of the social contract - and the idea that individual voters could in any way be exercising "people power" against the state - all fall under the same critique everyone has for "capital". If the latter is true, the former must be even more so, given state coercion.)
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