[P]erhaps traditional distinctions between left and right don’t make sense any more. The right, Varoufakis says, “thinks of capitalism as like a natural system, a bit like the atmosphere”. Whereas the left “think of themselves as people created by the universe in order to bring socialism over capitalism. I am telling you: you know what, you missed it. You missed it. Somebody killed capitalism. We have something worse.”
The early internet, he says, has given way to a privatised digital landscape in which gatekeepers “charge rent… The people we think of as capitalists are just a vassal class now. If you’re producing stuff now, you’re done. You’re finished. You cannot become the ruler of the world any more.”
There were off ramps along the way where people could have chosen highly democratic transparent techno communism, but instead we’ve allowed technology to just further aggregate, divide and keep score.
Despite mutterings of discontent around the edges as we slide into hyper capitalism, it really seems like the better part of humans are content with the worst possible outcomes in all things.
I’ve done better than my parents, they saw the writing on the wall and chose to procreate anyway. I’ve refused. Now, I’m tired and would simply like to go as soon as possible.
I don’t have faith in the human species any longer. I’m ashamed at this point that I ever did.