D’s Reviews > Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism > Status Update

At 50% he still hasn’t explained how we’ve broken from capitalism into techno feudalism except for saying that corporations don’t care about profit anymore. This book would’ve been better written by a wonk than a victimized leftist who claims the central bank gave move to big businesses only because they didn’t think small biz could pay back. Stringing a few kinda wrong ideas together is building to someth

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?

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