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7 years, 5 months ago

the Marxism of the master class

Calhoun is an analog to Marx, in other words, in the same way that public choice theory is an analog to the Marxist theory of the state. In the name of freedom, public choice theory would shackle the ninety-nine percent of us who exist in the lower orders of neoliberalism. Public choice theory is t…

—p.111 Power, Corruption, and Lies The Master Class on the Make (104) by Andrew Hartman
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contributing to her own obsolescence

[...] With this in mind, and when I worry over the publications, labels, and artists who have (reluctantly or otherwise) embraced Spotify, I can’t help but think of that airport restaurant server who teaches you how to use the iPad, thereby contributing to her own obsolescence. Why is the music pre…

—p.95 The Problem with Muzak (88) by Liz Pelly
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digitize them and offer them back to humanity

But who’s to blame? Saunier recognizes the tough spot so many artists and labels are in, where they’re unable to outwardly criticize their corporate overlords without risking total irrelevance. “The people I would blame the most are the greedy chauvinists in charge of companies like Spotify and [th…

—p.93 The Problem with Muzak (88) by Liz Pelly
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buy more shit we don’t need

This worker is teaching people to use the iPads that will one day replace her. It’s an awkward phenomenon that now pervades a growing cross-section of industries, a type of techno-solutionism that’s unbearable because it insistently capitalizes on quick fixes for problems that didn’t exist to begin…

—p.89 The Problem with Muzak (88) by Liz Pelly
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public banking

[...] In public banking, as in health care, the state is guided by more than the profit motive—namely, it risks self-damage if it forces borrowers into debt, for those suffering people will either become more eligible for public-funded programs or will otherwise drain the resources of the state. Ri…

—p.47 The Shark and the Hound (40) by Meagan Day