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The greatest mistake academics have made since 1980—me included—is to treat capitalism as deus ex machina. If your analysis depends on the word capitalism (and especially if you use the "late capitalism"), you need to dig much deeper, past the simplistic conclusion you reached.

“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI Capitalism creates an energy vampire

The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

£1.6bn expropriated from the NHS alone by capital.
That's money that could fund public provision.
It's what capitalism does.
It has no place in public services.
Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds | NHS | The Guardian
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We urgently need to overcome the capitalist law of value and democratise our economy, so that we can organise production around urgent social and ecological priorities. After all, we are the producers of the goods, the services, the technologies. It is our labour and our planet’s resources that are at stake. And so we must claim the right to decide what is produced, how, and for what purpose.

Capitalism: where shit floats to the top™
#crapitalism
@… https://raru.re/@ocean/114490739719068

oshy (@ocean@raru.re)
Attached: 1 image You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago? Turns out that was on purpose

I don’t know much about Stoat yet but the web site says “Welcome to the 21st century.” and I dunno but the *20th century web* was pretty fucking banging in many ways before corporations and people ruined it in the 21st century with all their bullshit and capitalism.

I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.

If a not-for-profit for-profit privacy-protecting company funded by surveillance capitalism isn’t trustworthy, I don’t know what is. @… https://polymaths.social/@c…

“The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Chef’s kiss.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/alphabet-selling-very-rare-100-year-bunds-to-help-fund-ai-investment/?comments=1&post=44240974

This is an odd characterisation of ecological economics. I'd put that first line, 'Green capitalists', (and at some part of the Keynes fans) under traditional Environmental Economics - where the deleterious impacts of capital accumulation/GDP growth are bunged under 'externalities'.
Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

The System Wants You Tired — https://www.brichapman.com/p/capitalism-wants-you-tired-perfect?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

How the Carbon Footprint Made Us Small
We’re taught to shrink our impact to prove we care. But what if the point isn’t to disappear—it’s to become dangerous to the system, not to ourselves?

RE: https://mas.to/@deprogrammaticaipsum/116390888699065796
A roundabout way of saying we must destroy capitalism but, hey, I’ll take it.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116376017878895238
I'm destroy capitalism.

It is not possible to address the "Epstein" problem, without also abolishing capitalism. These structures of power manifest those specific types of abuse.
... and this is what I was talking about in my recent post...
https://write.as/hexmhell/consent

From: https://bsky.app/profile/sirfox.bsky.social/post/3mizs47icos2p
「"All you had to do was pay us enough to live"
Forces of capitalism, these are the Canaries in your coal mine.
Pay attention to them.
Might be important.
Just migh…

I can understand not supporting old devices in perpetuity, but on top of having discontinued the ability to side-loading content via USB? Amazon's messaging is pretty clear, in a hostile capitalism kind of way.

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/yo

Capitalism has convinced people that new always equals “better” so if you want to rebel against Capitalism start to recognize that “new” is often just a way to extract more money from you.
Existing (or “old”) things can be functional and beautiful, and often easier to repair.
The word “old” should not be an insult. Not to things or to people.

Nothing could rally me against capitalism more than spending the last decade watching things I used to love get increasingly shittier to pinch a penny.
The most recent victim is the Nando’s peri-peri sauce which my wife regularly purchases.
The recipe changed recently (as did the distributor seemingly… coincidence?) and it’s just worse.

"Nurseries backed by private equity have sprouted up across the UK over the last five years, taking over independent businesses and merging them into gigantic chains. To an outside eye, many of these look the same as before, but they report profits that are as much as seven times greater than the surplus made by non-profit nurseries, spend up to 14% less on staff, and have far higher rates of staff turnover than nurseries run from schools."

Talking of #Bolton, as Hannah Spencer was in today's Guardian, I wrote this following a visit there, nearly 9 years ago.  I think it's one of my best pieces still.
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After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version
Here is the revised version of my working paper, “After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge”.  I’m grateful to those who have offered encouragement and constructively critic…

I understand, I do. As a straight cis man I grew up with the the anarchist critiques of "anti-capitalism," "something something FREEDOM," and "all that other stuff that you should probably read if you have time." That failed me and left massive holes in my analysis that I'm still working frantically to patch.
I understand how we got here, but I don't understand why we aren't, specifically at this time, doing better.

Ergebnis der meisten Diskussionen auf dem SmartCity-Workshop: Overthrow Capitalism!

Texas losing a billion dollars a year on data center tax break #capitalism

Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year
The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.

watched a video on how "solar energy is gratis" and was wondering how to turn this into a monopoly, capitalism should have an answer to that. sooner or later someone will come up with something stupid yet unopposed and privatize the sun...

I've started reading "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graebar, and it makes me think a lot.
One thing I'm particularly thinking about is my parents' generation. How they keep criticizing all the social support ("there is no money for that", "undeserving people get it"), combined with taking advantage of any social support they can get without much effort ("others use it", "we deserve it"). And of course criticizing subsequent generations (because my parents had it so rough, with all the social support given by the quasi-socialist People's Republic of Poland, and now everything is so great under late-stage capitalism and people "are just lazy and don't want to work").

"See I had forgotten the one golden rule of capitalism. To thrive in capitalism one must be amoral. Now you can be wildly sickeningly successful with morals but you cannot reach that absolute zenith of shareholder value. Either you accept a lower share price and don’t commit atrocities or you become evil. There is no third option."

Looking for something else. Rastko Novakovich directing his "myths of social capitalism" in the. Heygate Estate 2015, just before demolition

"We’re not just talking about potential spikes in food prices …
but also potentially key shortages in the commodities that are necessary to produce food, like fertilizers,”
says Adam Hanieh, director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at the University of London.
“Many of the countries that are going to be most potentially impacted by this are already in conditions of famine or near famine.”

Crude Capitalism: Trump’s War on Iran Disrupts Global Systems, from Agriculture to Oil to Shipping
The U.S. is threatening to intensify its bombardment of Iran as the country’s leadership rejects a 15-point U.S. proposal to end the war. Iran has issued a number of demands, including recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Since the war began, Iran has largely blocked ships from passing through the critical strait, causing a global crisis as the prices of oil, natural gas and fertilizer soar. “We’re not just talking about potential spikes in food prices … but also po…

The thing that is eroding Trump's power more than anything right now is his connection to Epstein. Everything in "the Epstein files" is absolutely toxic to the entire structure of power... the *exact* structures we want to dismantle.
The right has seized on this, but their analysis is just cartoon antisemitism and poor misdirection. They have managed to highlight this thing that unifies so many problems, so many struggles and experiences of oppression, at the same time. The fact that we haven't yet permanently tied his name to the entirety of capitalism and transmisogyny represents an utter failure of anarchists to pay fucking attention.

A brilliant article this.
Colonialism was constitutive of capitalism throughout, and still is.
Could Capitalism Have Thrived Without Colonialism? - Monthly Review
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/could-capitalis…

Could Capitalism Have Thrived Without Colonialism? - Monthly Review

Just me and my trusty phone going up against Western imperialism and its trillion-dollar propaganda machine.
#Anarchism #Capitalism #Fediverse

Hm, das könnte eine recht interessante Lektüre sein: Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism - How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protects Privilege
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-07724-0

Teaching the cat capitalism

> “almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off,” including the entire video team
Capitalism, working as designed.
Oh, you thought it was about making shiny, fun things for you play with? Oh, my sweet, summer child, no… capitalism is about fuck you.
Why?
Because. @…

Found an edge case with Walmart self-checkout, to start the checkout you need to scan an item, however they sell items without a barcode (e.g. jalapeños), so it’s possible that you have only items that you can’t scan.
This is how capitalism will collapse.

It's time to crush the patriarchy.
Humanity has to start by ridding itself of religion, because it underpins male hegemony.
No more monarchies.
No private landownership.
Cooperation, not capitalism.
Careful stewardship of the world's resources.
Fair distribution of resources.
Distributed smaller scale energy generation - because power shouldn't mean power over others.

Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday my wife and I had to pay for a small renovation which necessitated some budget shuffling. Needless to say we didn't make the list of the Richest Canadians. The McLeans and Canadian Business 2025 ranking saw lots of new names, which is surprising because $4.8B only earns you a spot at #40. Tech, primarily AI and data centre related, and cryptocurrency pushed some fortunes upwards, while the usual group of staid family wealth looked on with disdain. The saying "the rich gets richer" holds true as the combined net worth of the 10 wealthiest people on the list is $310 billion, a nearly 20% increase over 2024. It's difficult to read the individual summaries and not be disappointed at the level of wealth disparity with the bottom 50% of Canadians. IMO Governments avoid higher taxes on the wealthy because they believe Capitalism drives the economy, not the people who work for capitalists.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Capitalism #TaxTheRich
The Rich List - Macleans.ca
https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-rich-list/

Capitalism is the reason people become socialists.
Seriously, this is asinine. (If entirely unsurprising.)
#cars

Te world's operating system is in dire need of updating. Its current one – capitalism – has just far too many bugs.

from my link log —
High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won't reform itself.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/high-finance-is-wrecking-the-…

High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet—but it won't reform itself
The establishment is waking up to the dangers of "rentier capitalism" but more than cosmetic change is required

Wollt ihr etwas unangenehmes lesen?
#AfD wirklich an diesem Land gelegen wäre, würden sie LKW stellen, die

Why’d they call it capitalism when gluttony was already a word?

Painting a police car with a pride flag doesn’t change what it is, it’s still a police car.
#Anarchism #ACAB #Capitalism

There are days when I feel more lonely than usual, and I wonder if that will ever change. The problem is, there's a whole lot of unusual things I need, probably due to a combination of being on the spectrum, with all the oversensitivity of the senses, rich imagination and the trauma from past relationships.
So right now my girlfriend couldn't smoke, support capitalism, use strong perfumes, wear noisy shoes, jewelry, piercings, makeup, long nails, long/thick eyelashes… and probably there would be more if I put my mind to it. And it's only clear that the list will get longer with more experiences…
#ActuallyAutistic

Please note I don’t mean this in a snarky “yet you work under capitalism lol” way.
I specifically mean big tech (like Microsoft, Google or Meta) and staying there for years without even looking for another job.
You can make choices for your life.

"Conceptualising transition is a theoretical exercise which outlines how a departure from capitalism may transpire grounded in conjunctural analysis – a historically and geographically situated study of material conditions and social forces. Strategy, by contrast, is a step-by-step plan of action for a specific organisation based on that theory of transition and that conjunctural analysis."
Let’s move on from Erik Olin Wright’s modes of transformation | degrowth.info

Let’s move on from Erik Olin Wright’s modes of transformation
Building on previous strategy debates on degrowth.info, Charles Stevenson argues for degrowthers moving beyond Erik Olin Wright's typology

Institutional power, capitalism, colonialism, and an empire on the brink of war or collapse. Doncha just love escaping into fiction when the real world gets to be too much?
Yeah, 19th century fictional Britain is strikingly similar to the US today, but at least you know the fictional story will have a resolution. I don't want to spoil the story. Just know that you're in for a captivating ride with an excellent author.
Babel by R.F. Kuang
I listened to the audio book…

So stupid
This has to stop
https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com/post/3mcuvf2gc6b22

Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
We are here at Davos to make one thing crystal clear: With President Trump, capitalism has a new sheriff in town,' the US secretary of commerce writes. ft.trib.al/T0bsd6l

Some wing ding on the Internet replied to one of my comments and said “are you on drugs” and yes, I am, but I still know how to use a question mark and capitalize the first letter of the first word of a sentence.
(My comment was about how Capitalism harms people.)

Class and Capitalism in Literature, Film, and Culture
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Boy, end stage capitalism sure is wild.
https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/116256535763677217

It’s time to put capitalism out of its misery before it puts us out of ours.

Capitalism is a death cult, and it's gone full mask off with the "AI" suicide cult.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=W1dIC287Zz0

Donald Trump despises collective struggle, the organized working class, and especially those fighting to dismantle capitalism in favor of worker self-managed industries and federations of free associations.
#USPol #America

So I'm walking out of the forest, found a way to cross the small river and I'm trying to get to the main road. The road straight ahead is going through a farmstead (surrounded by fence), with "private property, keep out", etm. So I'm turning to the side road. That one is going next to another farmstead (outside the fence), yet "private property", etm.
Seriously, what's wrong with these people?! Did the capitalism mess up their brains so much?! What am I supposed to do, walk straight through their fields?!
#AntiCapitalism

It's wild how far behind North American, European, Japanese and Korean automakers are in the EV space. I submit it is *primarily* because fossil fuel interests are holding them back.
The new tech in China is stunning.
"The EVs were plugged in at 9% state of charge with 93 kilometers of range (57 miles). In 9 minutes and 51 seconds, they charged up to 97% with the range prediction in their gauge cluster displaying 1,008 kilometers (626 miles).
"The Commies” also seem to do capitalism better than "us”:
"The world’s largest EV maker saw its steepest sales plunge since the pandemic, with February sales falling 41% amid cut-throat competition in China's EV market. BYD is now hoping for a comeback by democratizing its cutting-edge new technology.”
#ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels #Electric #Electrification #EV #Cars #Driving

A #degrowth ecosocial response to the fascist threat.
The Social Forum in Spain proposes a common roadmap for the ecosocial transition | International Degrowth Network
https://www.degrowth.network/ne…

The Social Forum in Spain proposes a common roadmap for the ecosocial transition | International Degrowth Network
The Social Forum aims to create a space for dialogue and convergence in order to democratically build the foundations of a new ecosocial model that challenges the failed model of green capitalism and confronts fascism by proposing alternatives beyond growth.

World peace? Universal food, water, shelter, and healthcare? No, capitalism knows what it is you really need: Lego Crocs.
Because fuck you, that’s why.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2026/january/th…

The LEGO Group and Crocs Enter Multi-Year Global Partnership - About Us - LEGO.com
The LEGO Group today announced a multi-year global partnership with Crocs, bringing together two icons of self-expression and originality.

"Largely unreported is the extent to which the NHS is bled white by a private sector enjoying the benefits of state sector staff education and training, charging NHS trusts £80bn in PFI payments for buildings that cost £13bn to construct, and reaping at least £10bn a year in “excess profits” from supplying drugs costing the NHS £23bn (five times their cost of production)."
What place does Britain occupy in the general crisis of capitalism? | Morning Star

Class and Capitalism in Literature, Film, and Culture
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Hey, I’m your friendly neighborhood leftwing extremist; anarcho-syndicalist, anti-imperialist, non-binary mess (they/them, bi as fuck) from Bergen, Norway.
I overthrow capitalism in my free time because states are silly, bread is for the people, trans rights are sacred, and Thinkpads reign supreme 4eva, lol!! 🏳️‍⚧️💻
#Anarchism

It's not like I'm entirely surprised by this #OpenAI. That's the kind of software that we should build as a community.
#Astral #Python #Capitalism #floss

Is building an LLM inherently problematic? Not necessarily, but there's no good way to do it under capitalism. Is using an local LLM funding these evil companies? No. It's not.
Spelling and grammar checking is one of the few uses of LLMs that is not based on fundamentally failing to understand what an LLM actually is. A statistical model is gonna be *really good* at flagging things that are probably typos (low probability areas). There will be false positives, which is fine if you're actually paying attention...

Wait, those open source heroes in the Linux world who valiantly sell enterprise software and provide the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism are preemptively complying with fascism?
Why, say it ain’t so!
#linux #ageVerification

From Monroe to Donroe, Greenland and Carney – Michael Roberts Blog https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/from-monroe-to-donroe-greenland-and-carney/

From Monroe to Donroe, Greenland and Carney
Today, US President Trump makes his speech to the assembled political and economic leaders of world capitalism at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  The main issue before is, amazingl…

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115827039406863229
Union or not, none of us choose to be working class. Capitalism makes us so, and it will keep doing so until it’s abolished.

One more thought...
One of the more toxic elements of the whole "manosphere" thing relative to dating is the application of game theory to relationships. They've got people trying to "maximize their dating potential" or whatever, trying to find the "most attractive march" (which is it's own fucked up thing I'm not even going to dig in to). But that whole mindset is basically going to always leave you miserable.
Oh, you're single? You need a partner. Oh you have a partner? Could you get a "better" one?
It turns relationships into the endless pointless grind of capitalism. Fuck that. None of that shit makes sense. No matter how "well" you do in that game, you always feel like a loser. Everyone does. Fuck that game. Quit.
The constant desire makes you miserable and your misery makes you unlikable. When you let go of it, you leave room to experience what is instead of constantly imagining what could be.
You will always be able to imagine a better "could be" than what is now. By comparing your situation now to that "could be" you will always see your situation as bad because it's worse than your yardstick.
Is your situation good for you? Is it serving you? It can be good and it can also be possible to make it better. When was the last time you just experience your life instead of trying to strategize your way into "something better."
Throw away the yardstick. Something something Buddha.
Edit: all this is of course aside from the whole objectification thing, which is it's own whole set of fucked up. But yeah... All that shit is real bad news.