QueerCommie [comrade/them, she/her]

Id like to do the same, but also, not sure about doing it on an iPhone, and I haven’t “pirated” anything but books.

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It literally is though. In the middle ages would you have said “it’s not all feudalism, there’s actually some merchants too!”

So the current global market, as counted by GDP isn’t capitalism?

an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.

Oh, wait, you’re right. China’s socialist, so not the whole international system. Any given imperialist country still relies on growth to keep capitalism alive, though.

Many capitalists are losing their investments when the economy shrinks though, even if some benefit. The system as a whole needs growth, as all the propertied are expecting to continue accumulating constantly, as physical resources dry up, and workers can hardly be exploited any more.

That’s just capitalism. It’s absurd to define capitalism as only capitalism absent government intervention when the government has always existed on their behalf (as long as the system’s been in place).

Four Thousand Weeks is excellent.

20% of these look mildly interesting 20% I’m familiar with the point they appear to try to make, but am not at all interested in the book 60% are cringe, I second ‘if books could kill.’

https://youtu.be/xTgoSa7nzjo

Everything. Just steal.