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

MM marxmail00 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 12:05:48 PST 2016



> On Feb 15, 2016, at 2:25 PM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 15, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com <mailto: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.

For a real-world example of how this works, watch “The Last Mountain”, especially the segment from 51:00:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6neSdVOh_BM



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