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Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because it’s the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth.
Zero to One
Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
In my book, I argue that economic power is a form of power that can neither be reduced to violence nor ideology. In contrast to violence and ideology, economic power doesn’t directly address the subjugated part in a relationship of domination. Instead, it addresses the environment of the subject, which means that it functions by shaping the material and social environment in a way that forces people to act in a certain way.
This is distinct from violence, which addresses the subject directly as a body, as well as from ideology, which addresses the subject by shaping the way in which it thinks or perceives itself and its surroundings.
Capitalism Makes Everyone Bend to Its Will, Rich and Poor Alike
Søren Mau
To judge technological changes as a unilinear process of general human advancement can serve only to legitimate the power of those who set the priorities, regardless of the costs imposed by particular technologies on other parts of the population.
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
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