In our next book, Chokepoint Capitalism, Rebecca Giblin and I set out to shatter the false binary that creative workers can only choose between rooting for Big Tech or Big Content, as if one flavor of monopolist will be better for us than the other.
Politicians and media pundits like to use the term democracy, but that is just a veil to hide the actual workings of the capitalist system. Pull back the veil and what we have is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
When a government isn’t captured by private capitalist interests, it actually delivers real gains for their working-class.
This is a fact that is largely ignored today. The bourgeoisie have turned King into a hero by creating an inaccurate version of him that leaves out his revolutionary anti-capaitalist beliefs.
It is impossible to have an ideological discussion in good faith when people have been misled on the actual meanings of the terms in question.Â
The trucking industry could get people back tomorrow. It’s simple: ALL HOURS WORKED ARE PAID.
The reason debates about economic equality, social mobility, access to opportunity, capitalism, socialism, and politics are bogged down in stubborn, circular quagmires is because most people see capitalism and commerce as the same thing.
These are life and death problems! Waiting for neoliberalism to find a way to solve the problem while still making a return for investors is deadly!
