[hackerspaces] Hacking, making, learning?

[idnc_sk [at] vpslab.org]

Blaming capitalism is a little short-sighted. There would be no
standard oil without JP Morgan money. Corporate monopolies are not a
product of capitalism per-se. It's the financial sector with their
puppet government regimes that creates them, feeds them
inovations(gov sponsored R&D, foss movement, startup "culture"),
and keeps them alive via corruption and "free market" or "consumer
protection" or "environmen protection" regulations(yes, 99% of all
environmental movements are a rich man's trick Alice). With an army
of a new type (or a new kind) of aristocracy and nobility spread
across all layers of society from hackerspaces to NGOs to  media up
to upper management of various corporations..to keep you - the
well-meaning good-hearted, naive idiot - fighting to bring
about your own enslavement, thinking you are actually doing something
good. Interrestingly, it appears *to me* that the financial sectors
image of a not-so-distant future is far worse than what Karl Marxes
wet dream would be - which then begs the question whether they are
not fostering this corporate destruction of our planet themselves so
that (naive) people would actually beg for, cheer and welcome the
arrival of a new "global gulag" system they invisioned (as every
ruling class has since the dawn of society), a system wrapped in some
fairy-tails abou environmental protection, freedom, human rights - you
know, rainbow unicorn wrapping paper 

idnc_sk





On Tuesday, 22.09.2020 at 8:30 hellekin wrote:


Why the quotes in "for all"? As the global capitalist society
continues,
we do not have enough drinkable water for all humans, let alone the
rest
of the living. We've seen countless times how much water is used by
extractivist companies to remove metals or hydrocarbons from the
ground,
and how these processes pollute water beyond sanity. As they do it
with
impunity, I guess hackers would be able to stop them in their tracks
by
extracting compromising information from them, or killing their
machines. At some point, DIY is not enough: you can certainly help
build
water filters and purifiers from citizen science, but you cannot
simply
stop the harm made to rivers, cultures who protect them, and stop the
massive fabrication of metal-based and oil-based products, including
vehicles and computers. It's war that makes capitalism possible, maybe
it's time to wage war on capitalism.

==
hk

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