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"#Market traders engage with one another at a designated time & place, abiding by shared rules; #capitalists exploit their unrivalled control over time & space in order to impose their rules on everyone else. Buyers & sellers on eBay are participating in a market; eBay Inc. is participat…

William Davies · Antimarket: Capitalism Decarbonised
When it’s capitalism that’s the problem, and not markets, the only alternative is post-capitalism. But the central...

Shoshana Zuboffs’ eloquent call for friction in her book _Surveillance Capitalism_ comes without a roadmap. But then the people who swarmed the Berlin wall didn't have one either.  
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Friction
Shoshana Zuboffs’ eloquent call for friction in her book Surveillance Capitalism comes without a roadmap. But then the people who swarmed the Berlin wall didn't have one either. In her 2013 "Be the Friction- Our Response to the New Lords of the Ring" article (

"#Markets are characterised by #transparency: prices are public, and all relevant activity is visible to everyone. And because of competition, profits are minimal, little more than a ‘wage’ for the seller. Sitting on top of ‘economic life’ is

William Davies · Antimarket: Capitalism Decarbonised
When it’s capitalism that’s the problem, and not markets, the only alternative is post-capitalism. But the central...

The increase in car sizes over the past 50 years seems to be mostly justified by measures to increase *passenger* safety. Everyone else, however, becomes less safe. A more collective approach to improving transport safety - while also focusing on sustainability - would focus on making vehicles *smaller and lighter* (or have them carry more, i.e. public transportation). The perverse incentives of individualistic capitalism need to be counteracted. (post inspired by

There goes the neighbourhood.
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