Neo-liberals don’t know how to fight fascists because the same unequitable system underlies both of their power structures.

To fight the fascists effectively they would have to undermine their own legitimacy.

… when the need exists.

Like you already said, it’s much easier to separate needs from wants when you just don’t go to Amazon. It was a real eye opener for me, how I could just add a tiny bit of friction to my “customer journey” (just don’t automatically start my search on Amazon), and my desire for the object would usually just … evaporate.

Like a fey mood had overtaken me, but I managed to shake it.

I guess that’s consumerism.

That’s vertical integration, and the end result for a virus like Amazon is that, left unchecked, they own everything.

That’s so fucking loony. I get the disenfranchisement with the neoliberal Democratic party. I really get it. But voting for that klepto dotard? I don’t.

Whoa, like exactly like

Agreed that hope is Defiant (pun intended), but disagree with assertion that replicators are the backbone of post-scarcity (yes I know it’s a work of fiction by many writers, but hear me out).

Under capitalism the invention of replicators would just lead to the introduction of artificial scarcity, in order to maintain the current power structures. We know this because everywhere in the world already exists the technology for all to have plenty, yet somehow these obvious needs aren’t met.

In a nutshell: tech won’t save us.