Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOR4wuiPeEQ
TLDR: Hank Green independently discovers “Techno-Feudalism” and says he has not heard anyone else talking about this. Get Yanis Varoufakis on the phone with this liberal NOW!
That’s
oligarchycapitalism. And you could do that in a communist system.
If there’s oligarchs, then we can safely assume that the system they exist in isn’t a communist one.Like, definitionally that isn’t a communist system
Hank Green stick to talking about biochemistry challenge
No no don’t you understand? He’s so smart because he has hyperfixations, but is able to channel them in a healthy way that isn’t just uncritically repeating the last ‘fact’ he read about and never questioning where that information and definition comes from.
And since he is rewarded well for it, the system can’t be that bad, right? Right?
It’s almost like market economies tend to slowly consolidate wealth in the hands of an increasingly small upper class
Have you considered writing a book about this? I think it’s an interesting idea that could be explored in more detail.
Oh I’m trying but it’s taking so long cuz I have to keep pawning my coat and can’t go out in the cold.
my dude, you have twenty yards of linen right there!
Yeah but I don’t have any MEANS to PRODUCE a coat from them.
Damn someone should really write a book about this.
This dude’s whole schtick is taking a ‘closer look’ at something only to conclude that all economic relations are infinitely complex, and while fun to think about, ultimately inexplicable. SCIENCE!
Well, I can’t make sense of where profit comes from without admitting it comes primarily from the exploitation of workers, so it must be horribly complex, because otherwise that would be too simple and someone else would have figured it out a long time ago.
It’s kinda funny how much of economics and political “science” boils down to this.
Ever since Ricardo thesis made literally all honest economists to eventually arrive at some version of socialism (and Marx at scientific socialism), mainstream economy needed to take a step back to serve the bourgeoisie. At this point it’s basically Ouroboros-mammon cult whose main tasks are 1. Demonising marxism and 2. Producing economic theories that sound plausible to a laymen but are contradicting, backwards and ad odds with reality.
Guy trying to independently develop Historical Materialism by reading a copy of the Phenomenology of Spirit upside down.
I think you could, unironically, independently discover the entirety of Marx’s Das Kapital just by reading the Epstein files and getting angrier and angrier at all the rich people in the files.
Every few years an economist rediscovers a single aspect of Das Kapital and they get awarded the nobel prize for it and we all have to pretend they’re very clever
This video has been sitting in my feed for days, begging me to watch it, like the one ring begging to be slipped onto a finger. I can only imagine how fucking libbed up this video is.
I watched a little bit of it and turned it off when he said the CEOs aren’t doing capitalism they’re enriching shareholders
If that’s not capitalism then what do they think capitalism is???
Good.
Subjects of the Burgerreich have been conditioned to believe capitalism means Freedom™ and Democracy™
Ime these big brain libs tend to define capitalism as ‘dynamic’ i.e. companies are being established, folding all the time, leading to innovation etc etc. So monopoly situations are ‘not-capitalism’ to these people. It’s bad because it’s unstable, and good because it drives innovation, and that duality is great because it allows liberals to feel very grown up and nuanced.
This is also how they manage to convince themselves that China is “the most capitalist country in history” — they see a dynamic market and assume it must be capitalist
China is “the most capitalist country in history”
They still refuse to adopt or study Chinese economic policies BTW.
I doubt he even defines it. I’m reminded of a response that I think
Antonio Negri (might be wrong)see below had to Thomas Piketty’s use of Capital and Capitalism without ever actually defining the terms. I can’t find it but it was really succinctedit: it was Frédéric Lordon
that was a worthwhile read, ty for linking it
This was great
I turned it off when I saw it was 45 fucking minutes of libbing it up lol I usually don’t mind the Green brothers but holy shit is this one especially smug and grating
It’s terminally liberal. He keeps inching toward observations Lenin made a century ago and then whips right back to “but that’s not real capitalism!”
Hank Green and his brother have got to be some of the most annoying people out there
I used to listen to their podcast back when I considered myself a socialist but didn’t read theory, now I just can’t anymore
I loved him on Mentopolis and seeing how much of an ultralib he is has been unfortunate
I dont know what that is. But him and his brother have been at the forefront of being ultra liberal for years. They have huge boners for the Gates Foundation
It’s dimension 20, a live play DnD show hosted by Brennen Lee Mulligan, that season was like in a brain city or something and he got to just dump a bunch of bio science facts as part of his character. I haven’t watched it because I find Hank insufferable most of the time because he’s such a turbo lib.
DnD show
Um, Actually, It’s a modified version of Kid’s On Bikes.He’s good in it and I didn’t notice him say or do anything especially egregious
Communism is no longer when government do thing, it’s also when big company do thing.
Doesn’t the other brother do Crash Course history? Why isn’t he making this slop?
i make pop science content therefore my vibes based analysis is correct
Petit-borjuazee STEM-lord and whitest person in my recommended videos tab thinks capitalism isn’t that bad actually.
Communism is when small business can’t compete wuth big business.
“As someone really involved in running a couple of small organizations I WISH I COULD JUST CALL UP MY REPRESENTATIVES AND EXPLOIT THE LEVERS OF THE STATE TO MY OWN BENEFIT”
I fucking looooooooove science
Have you heard of the immortal science?All this is just capitalism, the capitalists only care about turning money into more money. They don’t care how that money is coming from, asset price inflation, Government, credit whatever. One can call it a different variant, but its just capitalism at core.
I mean, MIC has been a thing for decades, basically getting guaranteed transfers from the US Government. The banks were bailed out with $28T of Gov funds during GFC and Obamna did nothing to those responsible for it. The $28T didn’t go into a void, it becomes hoards for the capitalists, which aren’t taxed well or at all.
Yanis would bully this guy in the nicest way possible
:punished-bernie:
i am once again asking you to give us a Varoufakis emoji
Yeah why cant we have him showing the finger to germany as a emoji
holy shit this goes hard, whats the context?
At a 2013 talk in croatia, he flipped off the camera to illustrate his point that Greece should defiantly tell Germany “up yours” over austerity.
Just want to say that I have hated this guy for a long time.
He’s a landlord and union buster.
And he’s a mediocre stand-up comedian
I would like to know more about this
We live in the same town and I happen to know people who rent from him and who work for his merch company (they successfully unionized recently). He owns at least 3 properties in a town where those houses sell for $500,000+. I don’t remember if he inherited those through family or not and those are the only residential properties he owns that I am aware of.
His union busting was with DFTBA (Don’t forget to be awesome). You won’t find any of this in the news or Wikipedia because it’s local stuff, low-profile, and he’s treated like he’s some saint by locals. I could drop the address of his house and the rentals he has on the same block.
My main point is that of course these are his takes on economics, he benefits from the system.
