This sounds close to Yanis Varoufakis’s idea of “techno-feudalism.” The shift is no longer just from labor exploitation to consumption... it’s from physical exploitation to mental extraction. Platforms profit most when information produces endless engagement but minimal real world action: maximum attention, minimum agency.
Also known as “Infinite Jest.” The video tape you watch until you die. Once you start watching, you cannot stop. Quite the novel in its time. Now it’s just today’s news.
*Closes 7 tabs* ... *yeets laptop into river* ... *bashes cell phone with baseball bat*
Honestly, getting out into nature is one of the only ways I stay sane these days (and then I'll get yet another notification about public land selloff or some Government/Corporate plot to turn Yosemite into a retreat for the ultra elites - this last one is exaggerated).
The prequel to the Matrix seems to be writing itself these days. Human greed is turning their fellow men into the batteries.
This sounds close to Yanis Varoufakis’s idea of “techno-feudalism.” The shift is no longer just from labor exploitation to consumption... it’s from physical exploitation to mental extraction. Platforms profit most when information produces endless engagement but minimal real world action: maximum attention, minimum agency.
Thanks matt, haven’t heard of this but sounds right up my alley! I will look it up.
Also known as “Infinite Jest.” The video tape you watch until you die. Once you start watching, you cannot stop. Quite the novel in its time. Now it’s just today’s news.
I have never read it, and I had no idea what the title referred to. So cool.
*Closes 7 tabs* ... *yeets laptop into river* ... *bashes cell phone with baseball bat*
Honestly, getting out into nature is one of the only ways I stay sane these days (and then I'll get yet another notification about public land selloff or some Government/Corporate plot to turn Yosemite into a retreat for the ultra elites - this last one is exaggerated).
The prequel to the Matrix seems to be writing itself these days. Human greed is turning their fellow men into the batteries.
This is on point.
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