What about the individual people who participate in this social practice? Surely their individual consciousness, their ideas, and their behaviour matter, and make a difference?

To a certain extent they do of course. But individuals come and go, but capitals live much longer than any individual human. The people controlled by the capital — that is the workers that supply labour to firms, and capitalists that exploit them and extract profits — are mere replaceable components in the control loop, mechanically performing prescribed functional roles.

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ian Wright is great. Vampires live longer than humans (but canonically are dead right?), just like capital. Good addition

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're also parasitically dependant on humans and would eventually use up all of humanity if left lo g enough.

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think this is actually my disagreement, because I think capital in itself would do so, but capitalism as a system has systematized class collaboration between capitalists to prevent them doing this

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Precisely