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There is no "point" of automation here beyond deploying capital to produce returns. That this is the sticking point for the companies is inherently validating of the workers' conce…

Surprise, organizing takes an enormous amount of work, which anyone who's involved in any participatory, decentralized, leftist, or anarchist space will tell you. You may know this…

* 6 years old * hundreds of millions of videos * many make fairly strong pedagogical claims * mixed in advertising and product placement The third one there is the most important h…

Let me get this straight -- a commercial ad-driven marketplace supplies a very substantial amount of content consumed by children and markets it as educational (and/or allows such …

This is insane. Phone companies published numbers because it was generally considered helpful and the costs of unsolicited calling were relatively high. By the 70s delisting was an…

Why on earth did you pick this username

The value derived from public goods is mostly not factored into GDP growth and (when executed well) serves people both more efficiently and more equitably than the purchases GDP do…

Emissions are not down -- they've just been exported. The analysis you're looking at is a common one, but it's a shell game. Plenty has been written on this topic and on actual, ha…

Most people live there, and most food for those people is grown there. These are people, who are not responsible for the catastrophes destroying their ability to live.

I'm not sure where you get the idea that I'm vaguely moralizing -- elsewhere in this thread I recommend a 2020 book called Less is More ( https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more )…

Great argument.

"We can literally consume our way out of this mess" is my new all-time favorite HN quote. Sorry if you were being tongue-in-cheek, it's just too good.

Yeah this thread is filled with reactionaries downvoting everything that offends them :/

I said GDP and GDP growth, and if two countries are competing on GDP, the mechanism by which they compete is growth. I know you've seen my book recommendation in the thread here; i…

Yes exactly -- so to measure just by what happens to us in the north -- particularly when we're causing the problems -- is basically genocidal.

Totally separately and having literally nothing to do with anything else here, but since you brought it up, the USSR lost an economic war to capitalism, it didn't collapse because …

You're somehow conflating a method of analysis with communism, which doesn't make any sense. Why are you bringing communism into this?

"For northern countries" It's absolutely monstrous to think in terms of what's ok just for the global north, here. We've done the vast majority of this polluting, and the global so…

Glad you asked! He's a marxist, so statements like that are grounded in a historical materialist analysis -- very basically, that the material result of policies is their reality, …

This just results in more junk. Where do you think it all goes? It's a shell game.

GDP and GDP growth are the universal metrics by which every major international organization judges and ranks economies. IMF voting is literally determined by your GDP. There are n…