ｍａｒｉａ ؛ ଓ’s Reviews > Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism > Status Update

"Every vassal capitalist knows that with the removal of a link from their cloud vassal’s site they could lose access to the bulk of their customers. And with the removal of a link or two from Google’s search engine or from a couple of e-commerce and social media sites, they could disappear from the online world altogether. A sanitised tech-terror is the bedrock of
technofeudalism."

'[W]hen a word is properly defined,’ Simone Weil wrote in 1937, it
helps ‘us to grasp some concrete reality or concrete objective, or
method of activity. To clarify thought, to discredit the intrinsically
meaningless words, and to define the use of others by precise
analysis – to do this, strange though it may appear, might be a way of saving human lives.'

"During 2020, Amazon’s best year since its
inception, when its pandemic-fuelled sales went through the roof,
Bezos’s company booked sales worth €44 billion at its global
headquarters in Ireland but paid exactly zero corporate tax because
it posted not a cent of profits."

there's no choice but to m****r these guys I'm serious

It is one thing for our dreams to go unfulfilled. It is quite another to
sense that our unfulfilled dreams, our frustrated desires, have been
manufactured by others. The more our mass-produced cravings are
satisfied, the less satiated we feel. The greater the capacity of the
technostructure to stir the passions, the greater the void within when
they were served.

see? I'm reading

despite saying yday that I was gonna devour this book I ended up playing some cute city building sim game I found and read a total of ZERO pages thus far............but I've nothing to do today so I'll get down to it

I've started this book once before but I was def not on my non-fiction era by then. now I think it's safe to say I'll be eating this up since I already really admire Yanis and I've been very curious to read his work in book form after watching so many lectures and debates with him lol