I Think If The General

The Notion That A Society Could Be Regulated Entirely By Market Forces Is A Utopian Fantasy: An Impossible Dream Generated By Imagining What The World Would Be Like If Everyone's Behavior Was Utterly Consistent With Some Abstract Moral Ideal-in This Case, Economic Theories That Assume All Human Action Is Based On Calculating, Systematic, (but Scrupulously Law-abiding), Greed.

I Think We Need To Think Of Capitalism As A Very Bad Way Of Organizing Communism. Much Of What We Do Is Already Communism, So Just Expand It.

What About Precarious Labor? It's Actually Not The Most Efficient Form Of Labor At All. They Were Much More Efficient When They Had Loyalty To Their Workers And People Were Allowed To Be Creative And Contribute - You Know That What Precarious Labor Does Is That It's The Best Weapon Ever Made To Depoliticize Labor. They're Always Putting The Political In Front Of The Economic.

The Fascinating Thing About Standard Economic Stories Is Exactly That: They Assume That Everybody Wants That Kind Of Closure. That All Human Relations Are Forms Of Exchange, Because If Everything Is An Exchange Then It's True That We're Both Equals. We Walk Up, I Give You Something, You Give Me Something, And We Walk Away. Or I Give You Something, You Don't Give Me Something Right Now, And You Owe Me. So If We Have Any Ongoing Relationships At All, It's Because Somebody Is In Debt.

You Can't Have Cutthroat Competition When There's No One Stopping You From Actually Cutting Each Other's Throats. In Order To Build Up Trust We Also Have To Think About Each Other's Needs And It Creates An Entirely Different Dynamic.