They Are Lying To Us | Ash Sarkar meets Paris Marx
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2022
- We are constantly told that we are witnessing unprecedented innovation in Tech. We are told our problems will be solved by apps, electric cars or space exploration. Is this innovation truly liberating? Or does it serve to outsource labour and further consolidate power and money in the hands of the few?
Ash Sarkar talks to Paris Marx about Public Transit, Elon Musk vs. Twitter and New Zealand's 'Hobbit' law.
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We need to make sure that the rich have no escape plan for climate change. The captain always goes down with his ship.
Except the captain of the costa Concordia of course
There is no escape plan - money has no nutritional value. I find it so baffling that the rich are ignoring the "canary in the mine" - they might get away with it for a bit longer than the rest of us, but ultimately there is no escape.
they have no possible plan. either they become workers, to what is needed to survive, or they'll get workers, who quite rapidly will kill them.
They don't, though. They think they will, but won't.
Saw a doc that featured the rich from Silicon Valley getting out and buying places in New Zealand. They claimed it as an ethical choice (leaving silicon valley behind them), but these mofos probably just planning the next move to be safe when shit hits the fan
Delivery apps are just a money extraction from local hospitality. As a cafe owner they take 30% off of every order, then they will take the delivery fee from the customer and the service charge. So out of everything we sell on the platform we are left with 20% if we are lucky, it's keeping us going but there must be a better way to do this. These companies are not even making profit so what's the point?
More often than not they take away workers rights as well as restrict wages.
@@b00ts4ndc4ts indeed there is no denying that!
Lots of them are profiting by either not paying their “workers” or paying them almost nothing. They justify this by saying that the people doing the deliveries either are “tipped workers” or that they are “independent contractors” depending on what allows them to get away with giving up the least money for that work and expect people ordering to tip.
So for arguments sake you're saying if an order was £10 with a £5 delivery and service charge, they would take £13 of that and leave you £2?
Why don't you have a delivery men on the side and sign off the apps? Take aways do it, advertise it better or have an app yourself? "APPS ARE CREEPY AND GET THEIR FINGERS IN YOUR DATA, SO IF YOU FANCY OUR COFFEE AND CAKES GIVE US A RING AND YOU WILL HAVE THEM AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!" HOW DOES THIS SOUND? 🙂
another excellent interview by Ash, once again showing how in control she is of current events. This was a very important subject. It was a very probing and intelligent exchange regarding a subject that's affecting all our lives, in the most cases for the worst.
Maybe we need to reassess what standards of living we want, consumerism is driven by capitalism, we sacrifice quality for novelty, comfort for conformity.
Two of my favourite podcasters together!
I'd love to see Ash on TF
Downstream is my new favorite thing about Novara. Keep it up. Thank you for addressing the "I have to drive an SUV because of my kids" nonsense. I'll bet these kids will sure appreciate being scapegoated when they're dealing with the climate disasters their uncritical parents created.
What a great guest. Thank you
As an urban planning enthusiast I am loving the focus on transit in this conversation! It's soooo important and helps address so many problems! I'll definitely keep an eye out for this book
Also would definitely love to hear more from Novara about urban planning. I genuinely think that good urban planning should be a cornerstone of progressive policy
Agreed…are there a lot of urban planners that think like you?
I don’t think “capitalism” has *ever* innovated. It seems to me innovative happens and it is either taken up by “capitalism” or not. I do feel like innovation in the US is not being “encouraged”. I think in the US this is related to the dumbing down of and divestment in education (especially the Conservative lines demonizing our publicly funded education systems).
Innovation happens in spite of capitalism
Have an upvote. I will disagree though: capitalism has innovated plenty. Think of planned obsolescence, pyramid schemes, software walled gardens, television ads, digital rights management.. It's harder to curate this list than to generate it. These are innovations of a sort. They're antisocial and caustic to human society, but they're certainly turning a profit for someone. That's the same type of innovation that silicon valley is churning out.
@@spencerharmon4669 I guess I was only thinking of positives, but that’s a valid point.
Paris Marx? Great name, left is best ❤️
California is building a high speed rail system to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco. Right now train takes 13 hours, car 7 hours and plane 1 and a half hours. The high speed rail should take 2 hours.
0:25 "Aaron Bastani"
I love these podcasts, better than hard talk, that’s for sure. Keep them coming.
Awesome, thanks for this interview.
I agree so much with that video. Only snag for me is I cannot walk and have no other way to get around but a car. Not an SUV which are pointless. An estate car meets all my needs but without one I'm stuck !!
Another one from Ash & Novara! this discussion was lit! Mind blowing- a great way to get the week started! thanks a million!
Rlly great interview.
A great introduction to Paris Marx and I'll be checking out his podcast for sure. Jaron Lanier posseted the idea that tech companies should offer some form of remuneration for our data seeing as our data is the only way most of these super-rich companies function and survive, and at least it would be some way of establishing a sense of trust and balance as things move forward into the virtual sphere. The profits to be made in VR remind ed me of the woman who became an overnight millionaire selling digital land in the game Second Life; that future populations are likely to become extreme 2 tier societies reminds me of The Hunger Games ☹
I worked for Facebook. And he's bang on. The innovation is normally limited to algorithm-ising minor inconveniences (booking a cab, etc). But don't look to Silicon Valley to solve the big challenges, like climate crisis or lift people out of poverty.
great video, ash you are spectacular.
commenting because i live in canada, 2 winters ago i drove 14 hours in the worst snowstorm i had seen over the prior decade or so, i did that because i had to move during covid, in a honda civic.
also because of covid, uhaul wanted $5k to rent a truck so i condensed all my stuff into what i could pack in the civic, a 4 door sedan, and made my trek.
mentioning this to help dispel the myth of the need for giant vehicles to get around.
these giant vehicles are more often than not, big safety blankets for man-children. ive known quite a few people who truly do require a truck, the irony there is that usually the people who use them daily as a work truck pick the smaller ones [think late 1980's size pick-up truck] because they are better on gas than the extra large ones, on top of being more maneuverable in rural landscapes.
i always burst out laughing when i see grown men gingerly crossing a speed bump in a giant truck; that truck was designed to take those speed bumps and then some. obviously its good they are driving safely, but the behaviour indicates they dont even understand what their truck is, they bought it because they need to show the world that at least one thing they have is large.
the real necessity for winter driving is good winter tires. its not having a big truck that lets you drive safely in winter, its the tires on the vehicle.
thank you for the great interview, lots to think about here.
Great interview, but I would disagree that Google, FB etc have seen growth through advertising, they've just transferred wealth. The internet has destroyed the B2B magazine market and consumer magazines, newspapers and TV advertising have all seen their market share shift to Google and Facebook, often at lower margins.
good conversation, thanks!
I *so* enjoyed this. Utterly fascinating. Thank you Novara - this is why I love you so ❤ you just wouldn’t get this combination of incisive analysis and brilliant wit anywhere else 🙏👊🌹
Only noticed it at the end: Jean-Luc Picard on the desk, fitting for hoping for a utopian future
I think North America could learn from countries like Holland where the public transport system is integrated and whose ownership is dominated by government, plus there are more bikes in Holland than people and a cycling network and legal system that prioritises the bike over the car.
There is a train from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. It’s Amtrak. And yes, it’s shot 8 to 9 hours ride.
I love this segment very interesting and insightful
wtf is that intro Ash, I was eating and almost choked! Love it!
As I mentioned, Silicon Valley and I go all the way back. And the whole narrative of "private enterprise = innovation" has *always* been bullshit. Silicon Valley was built *entirely* on the Defense Department - the region's aerospace industry was built on DoD contracts, then there's NASA/Ames, and of course the entire Internet was built by DARPA. You may have heard about how many of the products we take for granted today were first developed for either the military or "the astronauts" - well, this is what that is. As with so many other pockets of this weird American ideology, *the most extreme "anti-government libertarians" are always the most dependent on taxpayer-funded largesse.*
Interesting point. I had a philosophical discussion with my colleagues on the origin of the modern tech inventions and they all seem to be related to defence projects somehow. Now, the question is: why is this the case? I don't think I'll ever know the exact reason, but I reached a hypothesis that human ingenuity is driven by, in large part, the most primitive human instincts - survival and violence. My reasoning for this is that much of the technology that we depend on today are a product of defence projects during the Cold War when people were living under a realistic existential threat. There had been an impressive development of innovation in defence technology from both the Western world and from the Soviets, and when the threat of nuclear annihilation was no more after the collapse of the Soviet Union, tech innovation in general appears to be largely driven by greed for profit. There isn't anything wrong with that per se, but I think there were more creative problem solving during the Cold War when there was a realistic threat to our survival. Feel free to disagree, because this is just my perspective, but the technological innovation during that period made us re-think several times what people previously thought was impossible. Now, it seems like most progress in tech is concentrated on improving existing technology or making a derivative of the existing technology. There hasn't been many new innovations that pushed the boundaries of what people think is possible. Is this because we are nearing our technological limit? I refuse to believe that the current technology is anywhere close to the best humans can do, and it might just be that we no longer have as great of an existential threat as we did before.
@@thepunisher2988 I don't think that's a matter of "human ingenuity" in general, but of the specific circumstances and priorities of that period. Throughout history, human ingenuity has been driven by many other things - those things which have been prioritized (and funded) in that time and place.
@@dwc1964 That is what I mean. Maybe my choice of words didn't communicate my idea properly. The specific circumstances and priorities of that period determined how creative in what direction humans had to be. When there is a serious existential threat from an enemy, the top priority is to create a better defence against the threat and better weapons against the enemy. It seemed like most of the brightest minds of that era ended up working on things directly and indirectly related to defence and military, and the products of their innovation later saw civilian applications.
My observation is that humans show their highest level of creativity in problem solving when the problems are related to survival and violence - like defence and military.
The employment contracts of the early 90s in NZ devalued a worker's wages.
Rogernomics took away a living wage, ironically under a Labour government.
I guess it's still the same today,as a lot of Kiwis moved to Australia in search of a better life.
Great conversation!
I like these podcast/interviews, keep them coming.
Yes to the interview and the Star Trek Picard Doll on the table. I wish our society was moving towards Star Trek 🖖🏾
Thanks!
Sweet relief 💗
Great talk.
This convo was interesting.
Great interview as always. As side note @26 sec it said Aaron bastani instead of Ash!
Inb4 watching - I grew up in, and with, Silicon Valley; my mom's tech job moved us from the East Bay to the South Bay the year of my 10th birthday, and 2 years after the term "Silicon Valley" had first been coined; but as alluded to, office tech has paid the bills for me since before that. My life, growth and development have paralleled the "computer age" from the beginning. And I'm here to say: *None of this is new.*
i have a puppy dog crush on ash sarkar
She is cute
As do we all
7:48 Yes, there is. Switzerland 🇨🇭
A good example of Jacinda Adern is her handling of Ihumātao. Essentially, British colonists stole much land, some of which was sacred from Maori. In order to settle a dispute between Maori Iwi and Fletcher building who 'owned' the land by deed, she spent government money. $30mil NZD was taken from a public housing fund, which was later deemed illegal.
She was better than John Key, who probably would have done nothing, but Fletcher building are still profiting from the sale, and the people are paying for it. People forget she interned under Tony Blair. She was also responsible for the scrapping of an inheritance tax.
the Chinese bureaucracy (state capitalism) also build lots of superfluous infrastructure (even in public transit) just as a means to boost real estate prices. As their population starts to shrink some of this infrastructure will turn out to be even more of a waste.
I read somewhere that big oil was consulted when cites where being planned and it was because of them that many roads where built to make them more profit
It's a bit more complex than that. American oligarchs could feed or starve the growth of settlements simply by investment. When relying on the market to distribute services, it inevitably means those who control the market dictate the end result. And the end results serves their needs rather than societal needs. However, this is all about maintaining the status quo of Capital extraction. It's about cartels excluding real innovation from more efficient and more effective technologies.
Adam Something is a good channel to check out with regards to public transportation systems. He's also given great coverage of the Ukraine/Russia conflict and he often rails against Elon Musk.
Lindsey ellis has done an in depth dive to the hobbit law if anyone is interested
I watch that every 3/4 months lol
You guys at Novara should speak to Adam Something.
France has TGV lines crisscrossing the country and a lot of people are using them as you can go from Paris to Marseille in 3 hours. Very convenient for businesses. Also, quite cheap.
9:00 La Paz Bolivia has got a beautiful cable car system powered with solar energy
(Lots of plosives 'popping' on the SM7Bs - you're too close to the mics, some proximity effect too, or get a more effective windscreen.)
Ash, there is passenger train service between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, see Amtrak for schedule. In fact, there has been passenger train service from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh since 1848 and a continuous rail line between the two cities since 1852.
To see just how much tech is innovated by the state, read a book called 'The Friendly Orange Glow', about the development of the PLATO computer system. It shows just how little computers have changed since the 1970's, with only the speeds improving and technology miniturising over the last few decades.
Interesting
The roots of most problems lie in the realm of overconsumption, technology feeds greater consumption. If you hold this assumption in your head then most of the solutions we are offered are doomed before they start.
23:15 - I feel this way talking to people about veganism
Thanks, The 1619 project has some interesting insights into how the transport system was developed in the USA.
Agree, nearly sent a mouthful of beer across the room.
That final 5 minute segment of Paris just spitting bars was amazing to watch. The fluidity and depth of what he was saying about the attractiveness of get rich quick schemes of web3 and the reality was amazing to hear. Great conversation 🤩
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Yes they are in it to make money. And you do not have to use them. I do not use Facebook or twitter. If you do not believe there is a lot of innovation going on you need to get out more.
I hate SUVs too!
Has Paris Marx watched any of Michael Portillo's train journeys? I watched a few of the Canadian ones recently, and he didn't really seem to spend much time actually on a train.
In France the poorer half of the population greenhouse gas emissions are already within the current targets. The richest 10% produce half the greenhouse gas emissions. So producing and consuming differently,... living standards perhaps need to come down, but only for the richest 10%.
This was fascinating, thank you. And thanks for the honest critique of the situation here in NZ. Totally agree we get way more progressive cred than deserved. Ardern still has my vote, as it's virtually impossible, I believe, to get any chance of real progressive advancement out of our centre-right option, but she is very far from the progressive saint she is portrayed as overseas.
Hi NM, could you please bring on the CZcamsr that goes by the name Common Sense Skeptics - he’s being debunking the Apartheid Client on a very depth mini series. No gimmicky, listicles videos, but rather well researched and coherently structure video
Even the rich and famous people cannot escape the common destiny.
They will die.
Not all white South Africans are racist. My partner is the total opposite. His mother had to whisk the family out in the 70s to avoid being caught as an anti-apartheid activist. He loved his nanny as his mother, was devastated when she had to stay behind and I believe he almost resents his family for it.
Only 10 min in and just going to kick in that I have an 8 and a 6 year old and we have no car. Stunningly we manage to not only survive but thrive, no car saves us at least 5K a year (and that's assuming we get a 2nd hand when prices are good and drive as little as possible) and that gets spent on better things. Granted we live in a large Australian city with "good" public transport and we chose jobs based off ease of access to us and not every one can do that right now but it's not the hell that people imagine. When people find out they look at us with a mix of pity, shock, disgust and horror I still find it funny.
I’m in love with Ash 😢❤️
World population is growing, but the rate of growth is consistently slowing from a peak in the 1960s. That long-term downward trend will reach zero around the end of this century. One factor which slows population growth - and would be even more effective if there was more of it - is the economic independence of women in the majority world. That breaks the children = pension equation.
How did I miss the start of this.....?
Musk's single lane underground tunnel with a throughput of 44 cars an hour in Las Vegas. It would have been better if they made an underground train system that would have had a much larger throughput of traffic.
Your local city/town council should be able to develop and run its own food delivery app.
Your national government should provide server space and develop an open source userfriendly website system, allowing for essentially the same service as facebook but entirely customisable while retaining all rights to your data (since it would be hosted on your server space).
RSS feeds exist as an early attempt at such a thing, the internet could be wonderful again...
I'm convinced theres a dark conspiracy behind the turn the internet took over the past 15 or so years...RIP Aaron Swartz (one of the developers of RSS feeds). A man literally arrested for following his university's mission statement, i.e. the proliferation of edifying information, the stress of this federal sentencing drove him to suicide which totally matches the MO of the FBI (like they tried famously on MLK)
Your ideas are too simple and effective to be implemented. Imagine they used common sense?
If you are expecting the institutions to serve your needs over the needs of the powerful, you're going to be disappointed. One could imagine one tech billionaire wakes up one morning and decides to give his tech kingdom to the people of Planet Earth. And he does so. Do you think the other tech plutocrats wouldn't try wrest back control of that? And use governments to do so? And manufacture consent amongst the people for it them to give the plutocrats control over it? "Houston, we have a problem." And that problem is Trust - trust in private and public institutions is being eroded, and not without good reason. The promises of liberalism are not being delivered. Instead of freedom, people are being monitored and exploited for profit by the same technologies you want your government to own. What could go wrong? So, people respond to living in a digital open prison by either being seduced by it, complying it, or rejecting it wholesale. There is no neutral, unconstrained way to access these services. You pay for access by surrendering your data, and you are now tethered to something so pervasive that you cannot function in society effectively without being tethered to it. So what of freedom? Openness? And responsive institutions that serves your needs above all? These don't really exist any anymore. Unless people start pushing back against this digital corraling, and demand a less exploitative system, you'll be waiting for Godot, who will never arrive.
Nothing says freedom and autonomy like being stuck in a traffic jam for hours at a time. Anyway, more high speed rail, trams, restored branch lines, monorails, light rail links...from a leftie train geek! 😉
BioTech and MedTech is where the innovation is at... "Tech" is just to support that, as 'boring' as electricity... (relatively speaking)
Hello from the NZ left! You're right that we wouldn't view Adern or ourselves with the progressive cred that we seem to have. She has a majortiy government, and its been painful watching her get nothing done over that last two terms.
If the greens are needed to form the parliament, all the dogmatic boomer excuses get cut through. But since there is no green party in parliament (per se), the all the old boomer "liberals" get their wage rises and get to keep screwing the environment - or they'll just vote for National (Tory) which is Adern's main conundrum.
The answer is always Traaaaaiiins 🎉🦀
New Zealander here, he's right about NZ. Labour has done some deeply racist shit, supports forced labour in prisons, and won't take meaningful action on housing. Better than National and most other countries leftish govts but still complete shit.
It almost seems like human advancement comes from hard work, collaboration and the sciences, and not from people who believe they are the Digital Jesus. 🤔
We won’t survive as a species if we don’t fix the problems we have created for ourselves here on earth.
By 2050 we will be 9 billion people. We need 70% increase in food production on a planet that has a declining ability to feed us.
Agricultural practices need to change. Conventional petro-chemical based agriculture is not sustainable, and is killing the bio diversity of the soil, and tends towards expensive unsustainable monoculture.
Permaculture is a sustainable and holistic methodology for growing food and protecting the environment, which can most benefit small scale farming because the inputs are understanding of the concept, labour, and seed.
Both and jetpacks
Why capitalism stopped innovating? That's a very good question. From 2016 till now we have seen decline on this but only an empty shell of profit base. But since 2008 financial has cutback on innovating and I saw on Instagram of towns being stripped by motorways and carparks. (Mainly) The US used to be with full of towns and shops. Thriving places in the 1950s and they are all knocked down for carparks... its ugly Detriot is one example as being the automobile manufacturer that went in decline. They are now reinventing themselfs, knocking the motorways, could be a transit system trams, bikes. A walkway has been slowly considered for people not just cars. I do feel of going to make a cross-moterway is to be underground passing not on top that devides the towns that look like a parasite that has limitations on the community over a slow spacd of time.
17:23 military of the tech company's yes, videos games were by military hardware that some youtuber futuresound had said like doom, halo, cod and other games. (Except mgs which is anti-war message I'll take as being a learning lesson of subversion.)
But they are distractions and were made for people to be enthusiastic (propagated.) of the military by using tech and even been promoted by military firms of its message. Strange that you had so many cod games being released as many game firms couldn't do that and they were just side quest games or indies.
But even in the gaming industry has been effected and profit base. I've gone too my old games.... lol and technology I do personlly liked in the 2000s, that was innovating and was showing possibilitys, profit yes they were, more now with slapping a feature that isnt that different that we are in a decline with major companys that have gone just profit mentality, it's only you see on Instagram people making stuff or 3D printers that are innovating in their own way but online.
I do think that politics itself in the internet age has effected community with discussion that are not being addressed, ignored or even overshadowed of the actuality of what we want in our sociaty. I do remember a time leaving school the internet was something for content creators just the average person doing silly stuff, burn a phone in a microwave or show dancing on youtube or some little animation or keyboard cat. Those were nice and good things of the internet that I like of the tech era. I miss that very, the good parts of it.
It's only when big tech company's (that were on tv) and mainstream grab hold of the internet and turn it ugly and advertising and politics manipulation and just profit as it's become.
The internet was a third option to get a different opinion rather the the tv or newspapers. No one saw the internet as any interest just s toy, I wish the mainstream just saw it like that didnt take interest. I just remember Bill Gates waiting in line with people to get something to eat, chips or something. Anc I feel that after the 2016 what had happened. I could see he wanted to bring people together in his own way that only people took advantage of it for other means. I could see that from bill. He didn't look sad but he knew something didnt work and it was being used the wrong how firms have used it for control.
We have at this moment become territorial becouse of media firms devided, with a disillusionment and frankly with the use of the internet ourselves of our agendas. Become abit like japan has in their sociaty. Indifferent.
I just hope that we do find a diffrent route though.
Henry Kissinger is still alive & thinks AI should be in charge of nuclear weapons.
Is this news India?
Consumerised Capitalism and a Reactionary Market cannot solve the issues within society.
Because to solve issues for the needs of society and humanity would involve investment that would return nothing or very little.
Carbon Capture I predict will be driven by state investment and ownership to be Privatised at a later date once all the infrastructure is installed.
Fatal flaw in america's strategy, can't build a consumer society while impoverishing society.
Railays are old technology? I'll tell you what's old tech - WHEELS, at least in relation to rail networks. MagLEV increasingly looks like the future of those systems. Fortunately, Silicon Valley has little to do with it. No substitute for politics, of course, as Paris says.
OMG is Ash starting to recognise that dealing with our ecocidal tendencies will require degrowth? (Actually it's going to be cessation of industrial civilisation) Only thirty years too late but at least indicates hope that some of you will realise the reality were in as the ship goes down.
I wasn't previously aware that she was pro-growth
@@bent-b7791 like most people they seem to follow the fantasy of continuing life as we know it with windmills and solar
People vwant to get from A to B for whatever reason. Via something is just slowing that up. Steady investment in mass transit would help but to be truely helpful would need to be at least as good as the Japanese high speed rail system. That then leaves the traveler with the journey from mass transit drop off to final destiation. That could be a few minits walk to many thousands of miles. Apart from ' beam me up Scotty' there seems little to solve the equation of A to B directly, simply & reasonably priced. Not forgetting all the human face to face intervention that make all this at all possible. Tech fails on a very regular basis to provide what was promised at point of sale. From the train ticket collection that won't let you have what you already paid for to anyone of a thousand things that rely on something joining up with something else to make X happen. Cutting staff, cutting services is not in any way getting you from A to B. Putting prices up may reduce demand but does not solve the intitial requirement. Will governments ever grasp this? No their hands are full with shares & offshore accounts sucking up the funding that could make A to B at least possible most of the time for skill sets that make a country prosper.
Cutesy names from fiction! Like "Nimbus" from Harry Potter?! Stolen by M.Z.? Almost like meta being robbed from Diem25...
ok i had to laugh when he said tech wont save us of course it wont but it can ease things. just to point out one thing, his both right and wrong. example of how tech has basically saved us, cave man sitting in a dark cave, cant see anything, giving predators a chance to eat him. man discovered and learned how to make fire, cave is lit up, man can see the thing hunting him, man can fight it and stay alive. or man could use said fire to chase it away. now lets go one step furthur, man in cave again, sees far away animal that he could hunt for food. but his just a man he cant run as fast as most things and has to get close to the target leaving him open to injury or death, cave man sits and thinks, comes up with the very basic bow, now man in cave can stay back and fire arrows at what his hunting thus his way more protected from his target and can even take it down without it knowing his there. you see tech of any kind is a step forward, plain and simple. now i am not sticking up for these tech companies but i am saying that you cant unlearn something and everything learned leads to a better understanding of our world, our lives and even our own limits. at the end of the day the human race moves evolves along side ourtech, we was once living in caves, we have homes that we build now, we used to have very little food, we learned how to work the land and use tools we invent to work said land. see we along with tech go hand in hand without tech and tech inovation we would be a much weaker and prey to the animals out there that have way better offense than our defence
Capitalism has stopped growing in productivity rates (read Automation and the Future of work by Aaron Benanav), where we're seeing growth are in the realms of data and intellectual property. Capitalism has run out of real world to colonise, so now were making up digital worlds, selling data, making intellectual property instead. I don't think its any coincidence that the only real place were seeing innovation these days is in data, we can no longer change the world, so instead we map it.
the commodification and trading in data is another form of financialization. Modern capitalism is skewing to the casino of financialization, or the pure Marxian scenario of rentier capitalism which is just another form of the class war (as alluded to by non other than Warren Buffet). The entirety of modern capitalism, or rather neoliberalism as it is more correctly defined, is the hope that somebody else is going to do something to innovate and make money whilst the idle rich get idly richer just by shoveling some excess capital into "investments" which is nothing more than gambling in the global casino, particularly in the post-GFC ultra-risk-on environment, aided and abetted by Central Bank stupidity and incompetence.
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This is real problem when it comes to motor vehicles?...the vehicle is based around the horse and cart it has the same specifications and thats also why the engines output is measured in horse power it weighs thousands of kilos and you dont you come in the hundreds its basically too large just to carry you around and more often than not its single use having all the other seats empty...Its questionable the thing would ever have been invented in this day and age for its huge weight gas guzzling motor dirty fumes etc...but you can blame the horse and cart for that...
Vegan, obviously.
Forgive me father for I have sinned. I ordered 2 parcels for the first time in 16 months.
Amazon Anonymous
Paris, please stop saying “you know” every second sentence.
A constantly expanding population growth is exactly what will make this planet uninhabitable. If any other mammal was growing their numbers like we have they would have been culled en masse long since.
Never understood why the term “overabundant species” could apply to any other animals except humans
Fortunately, population growth has been on decline since the sixties and has fallen to about half of the baby boom peak. There is a reasonable expectation that this trend will continue and the human population become much more stable within the next 100 years. This planet can support twice the population we have now if we don't mess it up completely.
Fortunately with birth rates declining world-wide as poverty decreases, global population is expected to peak at some point then Enter a gradual decline. And it is expected to do so at a level where if we manage resources better than we do now, and implement lots of good climate policy, and green tech, then it will be perfectly possible to provide everyone with a high quality of life AND protect and restore the environment
@@herbybey7698 This planet can support twice as many of us. Spoken like no other species existed or had any rights.
@@Emiliapocalypse Such hypocrisy.
10:01 Wait your reason for disliking SUV is because you are scared they are going to kill you on your bike. How about banning other trucks including lorries and trailers while we are at it. This conversation is pointless, can I get my 10minutes back please.
I used to think Elon musk was a different breed from the billionaire class we are used to seeing , Until I saw he got himself involved with the witch Amber heard ,
Elon is one of the few helping to get the world off of fossil fuels.
By poisoning Africa while extracting lithium for his car batteries... Ignorance never fails to amuse me... You probably don't know the slavery that is going on in his usa factories and the secrecy he guards that with... Elon... Nah, he can stuff his poisoning Africa cars...
Not nearly as much as he presents himself as doing
@@robertwinslade3104 how much are you helping?
You've got to be joking 💀
@@o_o8203 car emissions are currently 30% of CO2