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Decommodify money. Make it a luxury insetead of a necessity and, like, half of capitalism's problems are solved.
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Decommodify money. Make it a luxury insetead of a necessity and, like, half of capitalism's problems are solved.
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Switched my phone to GrapheneOS. Super easy, for a firmware swap. Everything works basically the same, it's still Android.
Their App Store is barren, but lets you install Google Play Store (in a secure sandbox to limit what data it can access). Signal, Firefox, Transit, Tidal, Thunderbird, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Contacts all work. The only thing that hasn't worked is Starbucks, what weird Google specific thing are they doing?
Next is weaning myself off Google services. Mail is already pobox.com. I'm trying Open Streetmaps. Photos, Contacts, and Calendar I haven't figured out.
Do you have any thoughts on the Supreme Court's ruling on student loan forgiveness?
I'm not a legal scholar - I leave that to my colleagues at Lawyers, Guns, and Money - but it seems to this layman like a case of Roberts and the 6-3 finding a thinly-veiled excuse for enacting Republican public policy rather than following through with the legal philosophy they supposedly believe in.
As a matter of public policy, it's a terrible decision. Higher education ought to be fully decommodified instead of this fundamentally dishonest song-and-dance routine where the Feds provide the money but we pretend it's all going to be paid back, and student debt is an unjust and malignant burden on the life outcomes of young people which has had horrible knock-on effects on our society that need to be fixed soon if we want Millenials and Gen Zers to be economically capable of caring for the generations who came before.
I'm very much encouraged by Biden's defiant response that he's going to do it again through the Higher Education Act. It's not exactly Andrew Jackson's "let him enforce it," but it's a good check to the increasingly arrogant and overreaching judiciary. Contrary to Robert's public statement to Congress about the revelations of judicial corruption, the Supreme Court is not beyond the checks and balances of the other branches of the Federal government.
The online system is broken. How do we fix it?
The internet is broken because the internet is a business. While the issues are various and complex, they are inextricable from the fact that the internet is owned by private firms and is run for profit. Regulating markets or making them more competitive won’t touch the deeper problem, which is the market itself. MAREA and other cables are, to borrow a metaphor from the Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano, like veins in a mine. Through them, wealth is extracted and communities are dominated.
The problems that have provoked the techlash are diverse, but none of them would exist if they didn’t contribute to profits. The profit system produces the dysfunctions and depredations of the modern internet.
Whether we dwell in caves or in condominiums, housing is a universal human practice. Home is an extension and expression of our capacity to create. It takes an infinite variety of forms, but making a home for ourselves is an essential and universal activity. Residential alienation is what happens when a capitalist class captures the housing process and exploits it for its own ends. Hyper-commodified housing is alienated housing. It is dominated by people who see dwellings through the eyes of an investor interested in profit or a technocrat interested in control, instead of seeing it as a social right. Commodified dwelling space is not an expression of the residential needs of those who live in it. It is determined by landlords, sublessors, management companies, real estate developers, banks, bailiffs, and bureaucrats–by the ensemble of social roles and institutions that prop up the seemingly inhuman laws of housing markets in contemporary society.
David Madden & Peter Marcuse, In Defense of Housing: The Politics Of Crisis
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