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That one could become a “cyborg” is not “low” in any fluffy humanist sense of violating the sacredness of the unity of Mankind, but rather what is “low” is that one must lower oneself to servitude in order to maintain one’s parts.
In July, the Federal Trade Commission announced a complaint against Amazon over the ways the company has tricked customers into subscribing to its paid Prime service. The Commission argues that Amazon discovered that its customers were accidentally signing up for Prime and were unhappy about it, and that the company nevertheless decided not to fix this confusion because it was making too much money from these accidental signups. To make things worse, Amazon deliberately made it harder to cancel Prime, and celebrated that the new, more complex process resulted in fewer cancellations.
Big Tech Can’t Stop Telling on Itself
Cory Doctorow
As debt appeared, money flourished. But for money to have value, an institution, the state, had to make it trustworthy. When we talk about the economy, this is what we are talking about: the complex relations that emerge in a society with a surplus.
Talking to My Daughter
Yanis Varoufakis
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