Our house is on fire. Join the resistance: Do no harm/take no shit. My idiosyncratic and confluent bricolage of progressive politics, the collaborative commons, next generation cognitive neuroscience, American pragmatism, de/reconstruction, dynamic systems, embodied realism, postmetaphysics, psychodynamics, aesthetics. It ain't much but it's not nothing.
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Conscious capitalism is still capitalism
Following up on this post, again
I see so many parallels to the integral movement in this sociological
shift, e.g. the fixation that complexity and innovation are the answers
to everything. But when they are applied to the existing capitalist
structure they create monopolies like Google, Facebook, Uber and Amazon.
Yes, they are innovative with high-complexity tech, but they all
embrace the model of making everyone low wage, independent contractors
with no benefits plus shouldering their own costs of doing business.
These are the very causes of income inequality that these self-righteous
cultural creatives claim they will cure via their innovations. They
could if they had a collaborative commons infrastructure, but that's
completely off the table with the assumption that there is no
alternative to corporate capitalism, conscious capitalism
notwithstanding.
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