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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Does Assholery Have Iron Laws?
Although it is not really relevant to the argument I made in the prior post, I have seen several folks make
the point that people will not be seduced into the googleplex through
its preferred gambit of offering free stuff once enough of the people learn that even the palpably
awesome free stuff Google offers won't be supported for long. This adds to the point I
made (that everybody should already know), namely, that profitability
cannot sustain conspicuously useful or possibly even indispensable
public goods for long if at all yet another point I did not make (that everybody should also
already know), namely, that the logic of profitability often
eventuates even in the inability to sustain private profitability itself.
Looting the public for parochial private interests is all too often
followed next by looting the quality of private goods for still more
parochial gains that render profitability unsustainable as well.
Was it Marx who said that assholery is always unsustainable, and that capitalism always enables
assholery? Or was that somebody else?
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Film based on the book "Death Of The Liberal Class" by Chris Hedges. Basically Hedges book turned into film. Directly attacks the assholery of capitalism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6UynI5m7Y&lc=qr5k_wsFclFxzspQ7g1s1yHsnubPFZ7sSE--MLteJuQ
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