neoliberal reddit strike again with the big brain takes.
I've said it before: the people who populate r/neoliberal are desperate to believe that the governing class is on the same team as them, because otherwise they would have to reconcile with the real monstrosity of a social and economic system designed to exploit them.
To achieve this delusion, they wrap themselves up in layers of wonkery and bad statistics like some kind of voodoo astrology, convincing themselves that obvious truths about inequality and exploitation are actually false if you just read enough charts and graphs.
And the other half of them are posting from that one air force base that mysteriously accounts for a huge proportion of Reddit traffic.
isn't it great how private companies are allowed massive losses (while funnelling millions into appropriate peoples' pockets) but public infrastructure & services must turn a profit, even without middlemen swallowing all the money?
hell, they wrote a law that USPS has to be able to cover, wahat, 70 years ahead of their workers' pensions if im not mistaken?
i was going to talk about how money is made up (which is true) but this fact should be universally applied or only applied to public works to be a valid view---which neolibs obv do not
I forget who said this here, but:
PPI has been around since 1989 and views itself as Bill Clinton's "idea mill" aka think tank. Why I call them a fossil fuel think tank is detailed here. They oppose climate action, defend fracking, and receive donations from Exxon Mobil.
it's safe to say that their upvotes are farmed, and their organic support is mostly bourgeois economists and political science majors and interns who hope to work for PPI or a similar think tank one day. It's basically a Neera Tanden farm.
The creator of r/neoliberal, Colin Mortimer, is the Director of the Center for New Liberalism at PPI, which seeks to "develop a salient identity around the center-left values that have increasingly come under fire in this age of populism."
Never be surprised when an r/neoliberal poster seems "out of touch" as that is likely part of their job description.
that would technically be anti-capitalism as in the literal polar opposite of capitalism
companies love being in debt if they have a way to make higher profits on the money than the carrying cost
hulu seems to me a loss leader from the established rights holders brought out in a panic attempt to stop netflix from entirely owning the space early on
Even the ghouls in charge don't actually call themselves "neoliberals". These people are freaks putting on an act for themselves and each other.
I canceled my streaming service accounts and got a VPN to pirate shows last year for this reason
got a VPN to pirate shows last year for this reason
As someone from Eastern Europe I was so confused when I learned piracy is an actual punishable crime in the US and you need a VPN to do it safely
I've been pirating shit since the first day I learned to use a computer, if piracy was a crime I'd be tried in the Geneva and put on death row
Yeah it's time to retvrn to the galleon 🏴☠️
Which vpn did you end up going with?
Only problem is that it takes up a fuckload of storage space :(
You can use Stremio to avoid having to download files to your computer, that’s usually what I do
Streaming services would work like public libraries in a socialist economy. The technology exists to make them so awesome.
Side note: I once talked to some developers from a streaming service. They spent most of their time implementing the marketing department's requests for new features for the ad delivery module.
It is maddening to think of all the time and effort that is wasted on such bullshit under capitalism.
:wojak-nooo: "YES. YES ITS WORKING!!"
The rabid denial of coping rightoid midwits.
Also a fantastic example of the entire economy winding back like a trebuchet. As all these companies dive deeper into debt financing and JIT production chains, it drives social production into a position of precaraty that is just waiting for something to snap and send a cascade of failures of production through the system.
This mode of precarious production might very well end the crises of overproduction and result in an actual famine when the next crash comes.
I love the kind of guy who falls for obvious techbro/venture cap propaganda and just smiles and goes "I guess you just don't play 5 dimensional chess like I do"
Through the magic of finance capital, monopolization, vertical integration, and tax laws you wrote yourself, not turning a profit and having massive debt can be the best way to make a profit.
