Capitalists hate capitalism, but they *love* feudalism. Feudalism's like capitalism: you have a ruling class that creams off the surplus generated by labor; but in feudalism, society is organized to protect *rents* (money from owning stuff) over *profits* (money from doing stuff).
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Pluralistic: Yanis Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?” (28 Sep 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow