[lbo-talk] Jayati Ghosh on the contradictory effects of tech change

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> On Feb 15, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
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> Shane Mage writes:
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>> Capital never, ever, seeks to destroy government.
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> Not the parts it likes.  But the other parts?
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> Tell me that Exxon loves the EPA.

Exxon actively needs an ostensibly “public” entity that pretends to protect the public from its depredations “within realistic limits, given the needs of the economy, blah blah blah”. It’s part of how expectations are managed and the conditions for the possiblity of accumulation are maintained.

Etc.