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..."
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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