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Old man yells at cloud. The pathetic Don Draper analogy is still being milked into chapter 3. We are still being told he’s duped us with his evil mind games. How much of a mark do you have to be to get mad at marketing?

need to take more notes on this but really liking it so far

pg96 “But the technologies that spawned cloud capital have proved more revolutionary than any of their predecessors. Through them, cloud capital has developed capacities that previous types of capital goods never had. It has become at once an attention-holder, a desire-manufacturer, a driver of proletarian labor, an elicitor of massive free labor, & the creator of totally privatized digital transaction spaces”

His description of 2008 is so fucking stupid. Even acknowledging that just saying ‘banker greed’ isn’t enough, he takes us on a longwinded story of an increase in worldwide profit-taking to come back to the same answer, ‘banker greed’. He uses terms so child-like that I wonder who else is reading this thing. Do they even make leftist books for adults?

Chapter 2: pop-Econ recipe: bring a familiar story to get the readers attention. Mad Men. Don Draper’s marketing savvy is actually a new kind of capitalism because it preys on your vulnerable emotion. If everything is always detailed and new, then capitalism can seem transient. Soon a book will be written about the exact day the first seed was planted on a non-feudal, capitalist farm. Retarded

through chapter 1 I need to write my thoughts down, a first for me, because I think I might hate this book.
1. Pushing the dual meanings of all the buzz words: labor, capital, etc. Power capital and commodity capital. In other words, power and money. Not that deep. Labor and Experiential labor: work and hard work, whatever.
2. All the double talk of light so you can include the Einstein quotes on socialism

Chapter 3 - Cloud Capital is mindset shifting.