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Capitalisation is the extraction of value without direct involvement in its production, but instead by making a claim on its future benefits. The production of fictitious capital is a ghostly process of accumulation that, as Marx put it, transforms value into a “mere phantom of the mind”.
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
Over and over again, spring after spring, the questing mind, idealist and visionary, must pass through the planting to become nurturer of the real.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
First, it is good to its users, then, it abuses its users to make things better for its business customers; finally, it abuses those business customers to claw back all the value for itself. Then, it dies.
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse
Cory Doctorow
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