Companies are increasingly using software to spy on employees working remotely, said Polish computer forensics analyst Maciej Broniarz. “The market for highly intrusive spyware is snowballing,” Broniarz told MEPs.
Its challengers apparently vanquished, the main threat to capitalism may now come from disorders that lurk within the system itself. Wolfgang Streeck diagnoses its crisis symptoms, from persistent stagnation to global anarchy, and asks what lies in store as they multiply.
As with the end of feudalism 500 years ago, capitalism’s replacement by postcapitalism will be accelerated by external shocks and shaped by the emergence of a new kind of human being. And it has started.
Information technology has brought about in the past 25 years. First, it has reduced the need for work, blurred the edges between work and free time and loosened the relationship between work and wages. The coming wave of automation, currently stalled because our social infrastructure cannot bear the consequences, will hugely diminish the amount of work needed – not just to subsist but to provide a decent life for all.
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian
….. but The real-world practice of capitalism typically involves some degree of so-called “crony capitalism” due to demands from business for favorable government intervention and governments’ incentive to intervene in the economy.
What Is Capitalism: Varieties, History, Pros & Cons, Socialism
Agreed – Like many animals and all primates, humans form hierarchies of dominance. It is easy to recognize social hierarchies in modern life. Corporations, government, chess clubs, and churches all have formal hierarchical structures of officers. Where does it say we should strive to equal everything out so nobody has more than anybody else? And what would the cost be of trying to achieve such perfect equality?
In the spring of 1845, Karl Marx wrote, “… the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of social relations.” Marx’s idea was that a change in the “ensemble of social relations” can change “the human essence.”
“In England in the seventeenth century, almost two-thirds of land was owned by landlords and worked by peasant tenants. The previous two centuries were characterised by violent struggles between peasant tenants and landlords over the rents and fines the latter could impose on the former. It was, Brenner observed, the victory of the landlords over the tenants that created the incredibly unequal property relations that would characterise English land ownership up until the present day.”
Right-wingers defend capitalism as a system necessitated by human nature, but the market emerged out of specific historic conditions – it isn’t hardwired into our species.
Even if they drop people back down a gravity well to the moon – after getting them up out into space, it has got to be said that even if it works, many people are against this show of power. ISS was a great model, commercial will solve it all by killing bad businesses rather than proping them up.
Maybe a valid idea but how else would you get us beyond our home planet – somehow I don’t think a charity would do the trick. SLS is amazing, Artemis is the way forward, however we pay for it imo.
Artemis 1 launch success makes NASA’s SLS the most powerful rocket ever to fly
No intervention, no growth, that’s what we want right? In addition to the deceleration in the consumer price index, US jobs growth has continued to remain solid, damping concerns that a recession triggered by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary tightening is around the corner.”
A Google(tm) search on January 12, 2005 turned up some 5,000 hits on the following quote: “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini It is generally attributed to an article written by Mussolini in the 1932 ... Read more
Smith has been debunked so many times already. You just got to read up on what has happened since his ideas were championed by those in power – and what happens to people who try to correct this basic mistake. Go Chomsky and others who bother learning and being compassionate, which is also something Smith had problems with.
Supermarkets sure reduce choice when they put local business out of business then offer a handful of options. Though not sure if Don is right on this one. Re this article:
Monty Don thinks supermarkets reduce choice — Adam Smith Institute
This is not a contention which survives any interaction with reality : Supermarket plant sales are reducing customers’ choice, says Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don. Nurseries increasingly focus on plants that can be mass produced so the big stores can sell them cheaply, he says. “You h
Airbnb’s former Chief Ethics Officer Rob Chesnut says it’s time for an ethical revolution in how we do business. America’s most powerful voice in business ethics shows that the “do no evil” mantra is no longer enough, and companies that do not think seriously about a critical element of co... Read more
Douglas Allen, managing director of data and services at Ethisphere Institute, said nearly every company named has someone who acts as a chief ethics or compliance officer. However, the number of companies that have independent, C-suite level compliance and ethics officers has increased from previo... Read more
Yep, as expected, currently this idea is just a gimmick that makes some managers feel better about themselves while they get a holiday from the pressure they face more towards the top.
How temporarily switching employee roles can help your business
Didn’t realise there was a series called undercover boss that looks into this. Though looks like it was a bit of a scam – would like to see Bezos peeing in a bottle to finish his shift like amazon workers are said to do.
Undercover Boss tries to re-energize companies by disguising a big wig as an entry-level employee. Skeptics say the show is fake, but we've uncovered the truth.
Artist and filmmaker Robin Bell projected the words "Pay Trump Bribes Here" onto the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. a few days ago. Is this criminal trespass? Grounds for a civil lawsuit? Or can you do it too?
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Eat the rich is an abbreviation of a saying attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they’ll eat the rich”. ‘Eating the rich’ happens, literally, when the Masters or the Landlords are very stingy, grumpy, and inhumane to their servants.
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Eat the Rich is an abbreviation of a saying attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich”. So if you have no job, possibly because robots have advanced so far that they have taken all the good jobs, and now you are either a sports s... Read more
looks like rich landowners have managed to lobby the government into giving themselves another extra bonus. Crazy, spend it on affordable housing so they can’t keep upping the price of houses and keeping the majority of the population renting, and funding the rich.
Government to end Local Housing Allowance rate freeze after four years
Yeah, its a scam that channels more of the welfare budget to the rich – and at the same time demonising those who can’t find work.
” At over £25 billion it is one of the biggest and fastest-growing parts of the welfare bill. That is a huge sum of money: more than we spend on the police, roads and buying military equipment combined. “
Being your own boss is infinitely harder than having a boss, and by infinitely (which is a pain in the ass to spell), I mean 17,929,531.9045 times harder. Exact math. The next time I hear someone say that they want to be their own boss, I'm going to take the nearest rotten pork chop and slap [... Read more
Hmm, the effects of social exclusion ain’t that positive. so I say join them, don’t exclude them or beat up on anyone.
“Being rejected is like getting a blow to the head. It keeps you from thinking clearly and makes you act in ways you usually would not behave. You lose self control and act impulsively,” says lead study author Jean Twenge, an assistant professor of psychology at San Diego State University.
You can add all these arseholes to the list for a start. Would be interesting to know which one tops the shit list as voted by users. And yep, boycotting just the worst one would ensure they changed their ways – or die.
Coca-Cola, Pepsi highlight the 20 corporations producing the most ocean pollution
These criminal companies should appear somewhere on the list for sure. Most are hidden brands though that you motorists don’t realise you are sponsoring. shameful.
The top 20 companies have contributed to 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent since 1965
Saudi Aramco 59.26
Chevron 43.35
Gazprom 43.23
ExxonMobil 41.90
National Iranian Oil Co 35.66
BP 34.02
Royal Dutch Shell 31.95
Coal India 23.12
Pemex 22.65
Petróleos de Venezuela 15.75
PetroChina 15.63
Peabody Energy 15.39
ConocoPhillips 15.23
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co 13.84
Kuwait Petroleum Corp 13.48
Iraq National Oil Co 12.60
Total SA 12.35
Sonatrach 12.30
BHP Billiton 9.80
Petrobras 8.68
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
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“Former high school history teacher and Wexler Oral History Project volunteer – remembers how during the Cuban missile crisis, Americans never challenged government policies and accepted the possibility of a nuclear holocaust.”
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The list was drawn up with the help of computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy from the University of Louisville. He says, as far-fetched as they sound, we need to take the threats seriously.
Sounds like what most did with regards to the Romans way back when, but…. “as soon as Rome began to regard itself as the highest value and to worship its emperors as personal symbols of its ultimacy, the kiss of death was upon it.”
The collapse of religious liberalism and the weaknesses of evangelicalism may suggest the possibility of flirting with secular solutions to America’s problems on its two-hundredth birthday. But as soon ...
Tax havens are a bad thing for everyone other than the money maker. But yeah, who has power to close them down. Maybe Trump if he gets jealous of others who are making more than he is.
Nicholas Shaxson explains why the many billions attracted by tax havens do harm to sending and receiving nations alike, and how best to tackle this global economic challenge.
So Dubai islands are still empty – why not just make a single office block that people use as a postal address for their tax avoidance needs. Rather than hotels that are sinking.
Love this idea, there is plenty of room in the sea and plenty of countries that would love to attract billionaires – and now the tech is available to just make new artificial islands. You saw it here first I guess. Who will make the first one?
Most people hate being monitored by their employers so this can backfire very quickly.
In the wrong hands, employee monitoring apps can invade the privacy of workers even in their own homes.
https://lsj.com.au/articles/watching-you-at-home-the-rise-of-employee-surveillance/
Employee monitoring is becoming increasingly popular, with more and more people working remotely.
Employee monitoring can improve productivity and even prevent cyberattacks.
There may be trouble ahead…
As with the end of feudalism 500 years ago, capitalism’s replacement by postcapitalism will be accelerated by external shocks and shaped by the emergence of a new kind of human being. And it has started.
Information technology has brought about in the past 25 years. First, it has reduced the need for work, blurred the edges between work and free time and loosened the relationship between work and wages. The coming wave of automation, currently stalled because our social infrastructure cannot bear the consequences, will hugely diminish the amount of work needed – not just to subsist but to provide a decent life for all.
….. but The real-world practice of capitalism typically involves some degree of so-called “crony capitalism” due to demands from business for favorable government intervention and governments’ incentive to intervene in the economy.
Should have enjoyed it while you could – now it’s gone!
Agreed – Like many animals and all primates, humans form hierarchies of dominance. It is easy to recognize social hierarchies in modern life. Corporations, government, chess clubs, and churches all have formal hierarchical structures of officers. Where does it say we should strive to equal everything out so nobody has more than anybody else? And what would the cost be of trying to achieve such perfect equality?
“In England in the seventeenth century, almost two-thirds of land was owned by landlords and worked by peasant tenants. The previous two centuries were characterised by violent struggles between peasant tenants and landlords over the rents and fines the latter could impose on the former. It was, Brenner observed, the victory of the landlords over the tenants that created the incredibly unequal property relations that would characterise English land ownership up until the present day.”
Even if they drop people back down a gravity well to the moon – after getting them up out into space, it has got to be said that even if it works, many people are against this show of power. ISS was a great model, commercial will solve it all by killing bad businesses rather than proping them up.
not so sure we should have either…
Maybe a valid idea but how else would you get us beyond our home planet – somehow I don’t think a charity would do the trick. SLS is amazing, Artemis is the way forward, however we pay for it imo.
No intervention, no growth, that’s what we want right? In addition to the deceleration in the consumer price index, US jobs growth has continued to remain solid, damping concerns that a recession triggered by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary tightening is around the corner.”
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
dead-right
Not entirely Smith’s fault but he should have known his words would have been twisted by those with less scruples and more to lose.
more here, agreed btw.
I can highly recommend Jeff Madrick’s book “Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World.” reviewed here https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-invisible-hand-conver_b_6590420
Smith has been debunked so many times already. You just got to read up on what has happened since his ideas were championed by those in power – and what happens to people who try to correct this basic mistake. Go Chomsky and others who bother learning and being compassionate, which is also something Smith had problems with.
Supermarkets sure reduce choice when they put local business out of business then offer a handful of options. Though not sure if Don is right on this one. Re this article:
But shouldn’t all chiefs be ethical? I question the idea that one person deals with ethics and the rest ignore it, as it’s covered.
They exist. Not sure how much say they get in the boardroom though.
They are coming, too much money at stake not to nowerdays. Good stuff.
It’s a set of group of people, not an ideology btw. but interesting how they think this could work, with no money in the system…
Yep, as expected, currently this idea is just a gimmick that makes some managers feel better about themselves while they get a holiday from the pressure they face more towards the top.
Didn’t realise there was a series called undercover boss that looks into this. Though looks like it was a bit of a scam – would like to see Bezos peeing in a bottle to finish his shift like amazon workers are said to do.
reminds me of a set of answers I saw on Quora https://www.quora.com/If-you-and-your-boss-were-allowed-to-swap-roles-for-one-day-what-would-you-do
This does a better job of explaining the difference.
Had to look this up, so here is a handy link http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/what-is-equitrade-and-how-does-it-differ-from-fair-trade#:~:text=But%20what%20is%20equitrade%20and,their%20crops%20into%20finished%20goods.
one of the great ideas that have come out of capitalistic countries over the last 30 years. imho.
sounds good, how do we get wealthy folk to do it though?
Better for art no?
Didn’t realise this was a thing til now. Brilliant. http://www.creativeguerrillamarketing.com/guerrilla-marketing/12-must-see-guerrilla-3d-projection-mapping-examples/
May be illegal but it’s easy and effective 😉
Interesting idea. Looked this idea up and there are some legalities involved.
Nothing wrong with being rich – as long as we feed the poor in the world.
Rich Boy Check is a meme – Eat the Rich is back 200 years later as a “digital war cry” apparently.
Class war of olde….
Eat the rich is an abbreviation of a saying attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they’ll eat the rich”. ‘Eating the rich’ happens, literally, when the Masters or the Landlords are very stingy, grumpy, and inhumane to their servants.
looks like rich landowners have managed to lobby the government into giving themselves another extra bonus. Crazy, spend it on affordable housing so they can’t keep upping the price of houses and keeping the majority of the population renting, and funding the rich.
Yeah, its a scam that channels more of the welfare budget to the rich – and at the same time demonising those who can’t find work.
” At over £25 billion it is one of the biggest and fastest-growing parts of the welfare bill. That is a huge sum of money: more than we spend on the police, roads and buying military equipment combined. “
Screw that – i aint gonna work for anyone no more. for me its just beer and big titties.
Hmm, the effects of social exclusion ain’t that positive. so I say join them, don’t exclude them or beat up on anyone.
“Being rejected is like getting a blow to the head. It keeps you from thinking clearly and makes you act in ways you usually would not behave. You lose self control and act impulsively,” says lead study author Jean Twenge, an assistant professor of psychology at San Diego State University.
A much better philosophy than just submitting to a person because they are more powerful.
You can add all these arseholes to the list for a start. Would be interesting to know which one tops the shit list as voted by users. And yep, boycotting just the worst one would ensure they changed their ways – or die.
These criminal companies should appear somewhere on the list for sure. Most are hidden brands though that you motorists don’t realise you are sponsoring. shameful.
The top 20 companies have contributed to 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent since 1965
Saudi Aramco 59.26
Chevron 43.35
Gazprom 43.23
ExxonMobil 41.90
National Iranian Oil Co 35.66
BP 34.02
Royal Dutch Shell 31.95
Coal India 23.12
Pemex 22.65
Petróleos de Venezuela 15.75
PetroChina 15.63
Peabody Energy 15.39
ConocoPhillips 15.23
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co 13.84
Kuwait Petroleum Corp 13.48
Iraq National Oil Co 12.60
Total SA 12.35
Sonatrach 12.30
BHP Billiton 9.80
Petrobras 8.68
Should include some of these corp criminals no doubt.
Some defiant Hong Kong citizens live by this motto.
“Former high school history teacher and Wexler Oral History Project volunteer – remembers how during the Cuban missile crisis, Americans never challenged government policies and accepted the possibility of a nuclear holocaust.”
This is one of the top things that must change in the ever-expanding capitalist society.
This guy gets it. Many jobs today feel like a form of slavery.
Most people love free things, but they always come with a catch.
Charity wishing wells in shopping malls
(7 upvotes)Respect your youngers
(22 upvotes)There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
(4 upvotes)The child is father to the man
(4 upvotes)Feed the world
(11 upvotes)Or AI
Badass G?
Sounds like what most did with regards to the Romans way back when, but…. “as soon as Rome began to regard itself as the highest value and to worship its emperors as personal symbols of its ultimacy, the kiss of death was upon it.”
Still beat them…
You can donate or support Labour List if you like this idea.
modern slavery – video made by kids
Tax havens are a bad thing for everyone other than the money maker. But yeah, who has power to close them down. Maybe Trump if he gets jealous of others who are making more than he is.
So Dubai islands are still empty – why not just make a single office block that people use as a postal address for their tax avoidance needs. Rather than hotels that are sinking.
Love this idea, there is plenty of room in the sea and plenty of countries that would love to attract billionaires – and now the tech is available to just make new artificial islands. You saw it here first I guess. Who will make the first one?