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I'll have to look into that. I'm having a much harder time comprehending vol 2 so far.

Such an L even from a neoliberal point of view. The US is an advanced manufacturer, those are our inputs. Nations that are dominated by resource extraction get into a rut because they fundamentally can't match the productivity of economies that are creating the final end goods, because that's where most of the profit comes from. The sellers of inputs can only ever match the profit rate of the final good it's used for. The US is obviously not going to have a resurgence of production of steel, aluminum, solar panels, and semiconductors, so this is just going to end up tanking every sector that uses them. It's just the worst of the nudge-based economic brainworms taken to it's logical extreme.

Real question is if any of that happens quickly enough before climate change causes too much devastation.

It's a dark possible outcome: Capitalism becoming literally unstoppable in the lead up to total environmental collapse precisely because it expends no effort on trying to preserve a future, and so can materially out-compete other systems that are trying to save that future. That's the folly of liberal efforts to create "market based solutions" to environmental problems, and is why western liberalism is definitely not going to have a future.

Critique of the Gotha Programme

I really like it, I think it's an improvement over the proposals

The sentence "After the holocaust, Israel was established as a safe haven for Jewish people" is doing a LOT of fucking work in that statement. It was simply "established"!

I think it's attractive among people who like to "debate" about "philosophy" because it's simple, and you can make "powerful" contrarian arguments. They literally think these kind of absurd arguments are super intellectually rigorous.

"Under communism, no-one will want to wash the dishes or sweep the floors" says the average American, who regularly washes dishes and sweeps floors.

One thing that makes it more tolerable is to use Universal Android Debloater to get rid of the obscene amount of bloatware that some makers cram into their phones. But the era of unlocked bootloaders and rooted phones has come to an end, and these are basically just appliances now instead of universal computers. It's really sad how shitty and locked down everything has gotten. Ten years ago, I was rocking a Samsung Note 2 with custom firmware, and the world was your oyster, I could do anything I wanted on it. New phones are... they have nicer cameras, I guess. The CPUs are faster, but that only just barely keeps up with the insanely bloated software.