For example with Amazon’s plan here. If you pay this $3.00 to remove ads then you are paying Amazon $3.00 because they added ads.
That's just a stealth price increase that they can implement without admitting they're raising prices.
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Wait.
I will say that the gig economy is actually distinct from the job market. Rather than being a worker employed by a business owner, you have no employer and are forced instead to buy all your own equipment and fuel to perform work. That's not distinct from capitalism, though.
Once Uber starts demanding loyalty pledges from drivers and forbidding them from working for Lyft, it may start to look more feudalist. As it stands, though, Big Tech doesn't demand exclusivity. Under feudalism you couldn't serve multiple Lords - you had to choose.
Also, feudal competition wasn't market based. It'll be feudalism when Uber drivers start killing Lyft drivers for being godless heathens.
Am I really supposed to believe that there is zero interest on the part of the US government and US businesses to keep us divided? It's allllll a foreign psyop? Come on.
Technofeudalism would require more than just inequality. The capitalist State would need to be eroded so that the tech-lord replaces all government services and functions. Markets would need to be eroded in favor of the tech-peasants simply bartering with each other for subsistence. Wages and employment would have to be eroded so instead the tech-peasants pay a tribute to their tech-lord in exchange for the right to use the tech-lord's land and resources. Changing jobs wouldn't be a matter of just applying somewhere else, it would mean pledging fealty to a different tech-lord.
Feudalism isn't just capitalism with extra steps. It's literally a different economic system.
... I somehow glossed over that lol
Not bad!
If only men could be convinced to wear leggings in the summer 😔
Neat.
How heavy are they?
Came around to what? I'm saying this is the begining of another sanctions regime - actually it started with Trump's tradewar bullshit. There's a clear escalation that these wars follow.
In every country they're used, sanctions only ever get worse until the government collapses. Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, DPRK, and now Russia. It's almost always a one way street to worse and harsher sanctions until it sparks a civil war. China is next.
Learn some fucking history.
I say it's an opening salvo. Do you think it'll stop here?
Just because the siege hasn't fully begun doesn't change what it is at its core.
I was referring to the other , more heavily sanctioned nations that I also mentioned. Obviously.
Think bigger! Imagine a sextbot trained on your own texts and posts and phonecalls and pics and any other data it can harvest, that could impersonate you when you're too tired from work to be intimate with your s/o - and then imagine them doing the same thing, and now two sextbots are chatting with each other with zero human input.
I'm not ready for the future.