Fuck you and your panopticon mother fucker
Capitalism was always tyranny with extra steps. Everyone kind of accepts that private enterprise forms a rigid hierarchy with the CEO or managing director at the top with ultimate power, but they accepted that because legal constraints and market competition supposedly meant that misrule would lead to failure for that organisation. In reality, oligopoly wields power over both the market and externalities via regulatory capture, which is close to absolute in many countries.
Capitalism has more steps between you and tyranny than the feudalism it replaced in most places, so it was an upgrade.
Much like feudalism, though, the lords deteriorated over time (inbreeding and deregulation respectively), so it’s well past time to upgrade again. Ridding ourselves of tyranny would be nice, but I have a feeling that state capitalism (as seen in the PRC, Vietnam, etc.) is a more likely replacement. It’s another incremental upgrade that will hopefully give us the time to relax and organize to push for yet another step.
Maybe a lot of your Rich counterparts need watching because good grief.
If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.
By that logic prisons and jails should be the safest places in the country. Total control and observation.
Yet, for some reason they have a reputation for being quite lawless
This will never be true. You are an idiot. The more money you have, the stupider you become.
That’s pretty much how it works. The more money somebody has, the less they’re held accountable for their actions and the more they’re surrounded by lickspittles. At some point you just lose touch with reality.
I have lived under Tony Blair, but I have never hated him more than I do now.
Fucking imagine the reaction if Xi had said this
You don’t serve freedom, not the option to be free of tracking because they are scared you will raise their taxes so you can afford to live and they will have less in their bank accounts. Fuck these guys.
