“Colin the chicken” logic applied to say iPhones. If you knew the name and a humanizing detail about every human who touched it from cobalt mines to UPS guy, would you think differently about price? There’s already products that work kinda like that... credits roll in movies.
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BUT, there’s a minority that is doing the actual work. They’ve walked the fake-it-till-you-make-it path. They understand the problems, are interested in more than virtue signaling, and in solutions that go beyond reactionary labor politics and knee-jerk anti-globalism.
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Perhaps most importantly, in the last 4 years, they’ve gotten a first taste of the adult political battles that will shape the rest of their lives: against ethno-nationalist extraction-oriented industrial capitalism. The anti-globalists on the right. Their evil twins.
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The two sides share many elements of the diagnosis (hence the horseshoe-theory flipping between Trump and Bernie support. But otherwise they are poles apart. One side simply wants their shot at extraction. The other side wants a non-extractive approach to the economy.
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This battle will mature, deepen, get 100x more serious, and dominate the next few decades. Chickenification is not an isolated pattern. It’s the fingerprint of global geopolitical and techno-socio-economic futures. Everywhere you see it, the war has arrived for real with Covid.
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We conclude this sermon thread with a very tasty virtue signal. The Just Egg breakfast quesadilla I just made for myself. Repent ye sinners (within your respective budgets). A more virtuous life is possible.pic.twitter.com/pEzJnNZ1KT
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