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[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Usually I'm not one for video essays but this one is quite tolerable. It's like a little Adam Curtis documentary but less boomer.

A lot of this is very much Marxist where capitalists engage with reality to build or secure their wealth, but then that transformation of labor into dead capital also shapes them. That's the mechanism for creating their simulacrums. Marx is clear about centering the transformation of reality onto productive forces, the workers. When wealthy people try to do the transformation, it's a perversion of objective activity. Thus when the transformation affects the user, it creates a false reality rather than a real one. Since the billionaires aren't the one actually doing the production, they can't understand the reality of what they're doing. They always have be in a false, or limited reality.