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Daniel Learmouth
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Well that was a heady chapter - a full-on crash course on the history of capitalism, particularly from the start of the 20th century onwards. I certainly welcome the explainer, but I feel like a better understanding would be potentially necessary for me, assuming I can find some useful texts on this...
— Nov 27, 2025 02:59PM
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Well that was a heady chapter - a full-on crash course on the history of capitalism, particularly from the start of the 20th century onwards. I certainly welcome the explainer, but I feel like a better understanding would be potentially necessary for me, assuming I can find some useful texts on this...
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Daniel Learmouth
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Final reading time: 9h12m16s
— Dec 03, 2025 02:46PM
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Final reading time: 9h12m16s
Daniel Learmouth
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I'm somewhat interested in the ideas proposed at the end of this book here; I feel like I'd need to see it in action to really have faith in it working as a proper system, but I do like it conceptually. Maybe I'm a bit biased, because of my political leanings, but it's certainly something I favour.
— Dec 02, 2025 02:59PM
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I'm somewhat interested in the ideas proposed at the end of this book here; I feel like I'd need to see it in action to really have faith in it working as a proper system, but I do like it conceptually. Maybe I'm a bit biased, because of my political leanings, but it's certainly something I favour.
Daniel Learmouth
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Oh, I actually had no idea about what China were doing at this time. That somewhat explains why the US were going aggressive against them over the last however many years. It also says a lot about where the US was (and still is) at that time: afraid to rock the boat and try something different, preferring to maintain the status quo.
— Dec 01, 2025 02:24PM
1h13m43s (6h39m36s)
Oh, I actually had no idea about what China were doing at this time. That somewhat explains why the US were going aggressive against them over the last however many years. It also says a lot about where the US was (and still is) at that time: afraid to rock the boat and try something different, preferring to maintain the status quo.
Daniel Learmouth
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I must admit, I'm a little confused on the distinction between 'rent' and 'profit', but I get the sentiment around the rest of the chapter. Ultimately, we're at a point where we're at the whims of a select few for virtually anything we do in the world today, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. Maybe.
— Nov 30, 2025 03:52PM
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I must admit, I'm a little confused on the distinction between 'rent' and 'profit', but I get the sentiment around the rest of the chapter. Ultimately, we're at a point where we're at the whims of a select few for virtually anything we do in the world today, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. Maybe.
Daniel Learmouth
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Well, this explains just why things have gotten so screwy over the last fifteen-plus years. It's alarming to me that how we — or rather, the legal institutions around the world intended to not allow this to happen — have simply allowed all of this to happen. I dread to think what the future has in store for us...
— Nov 29, 2025 03:36PM
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Well, this explains just why things have gotten so screwy over the last fifteen-plus years. It's alarming to me that how we — or rather, the legal institutions around the world intended to not allow this to happen — have simply allowed all of this to happen. I dread to think what the future has in store for us...
Daniel Learmouth
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I'm starting to see the connections between the dots now. It's not a fun reality that we find ourselves in, and I'm not sure it's going to get any better, but there does seem to be a slight feeling of "you never know" at the end of this chapter.
— Nov 28, 2025 03:01PM
1h15m13s (3h20m47s)
I'm starting to see the connections between the dots now. It's not a fun reality that we find ourselves in, and I'm not sure it's going to get any better, but there does seem to be a slight feeling of "you never know" at the end of this chapter.
Daniel Learmouth
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I'm only vaguely aware of Varoufakis, in that I know he at one time worked at Valve and was also a politician in Greece, having to navigate around a major monetary crisis there. We get some insights into his origins, though this book won't be about him necessarily, as it is about his economic ideas. Let's see if my two-dimensional brain can process any of this...
— Nov 26, 2025 03:00PM
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I'm only vaguely aware of Varoufakis, in that I know he at one time worked at Valve and was also a politician in Greece, having to navigate around a major monetary crisis there. We get some insights into his origins, though this book won't be about him necessarily, as it is about his economic ideas. Let's see if my two-dimensional brain can process any of this...
