INFINITE GREED (w/ Adrian Johnston)
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We got a minimum wage, how about a maximum wage?
Adrian Johnston is a great intellectual.
Brilliant! I just got done talking to Prof Johnston. What a philosophical wizard he is!
It's such a satisfaction to listen how good you both are at synthesising different concepts. I especially like the part where Smith's capitalism mechanisms can be explained by the Hegel's ontology, and the invisible hand couldn't be a better example of an inanimate object that moves through death drive, some horrible repetition of growth (or greed) that exists beyond pleasure, and thus can take form of infinite surplus value.
Off the jump, Yall are scrapin! This is the shit I love.
I recommend the Vsauce video “How to count past infinity” to people who are interested in infinity within mathematics.
I was in my element when the invisible hand ended the space on my note pad...so im back to finish the sentence off. I love these conversations... It makes my blood boil and I want to walk around with a sword just to make a twirl kick and point from X then scrape along metal ground all the way to Y lol
Johnston's comment on today the religious being secular and the secular being religious, and then your bringing up of your colleagues comment on the sacred becoming ubiquitous, as opposed to usual narrative of the disappearance of the sacred and the profanation of the modern world [~50:00]... Boris Groys interprets Walter Benjamin as also making this claim, specifically in relation to capitalism. There's a nice essay in his book "Introduction to Antiphilosophy" on this:
"Benjamin, on the other hand, does not describe modernity as the age of the decline of theology, but rather as the age of its expansion into the profane sphere, its democratization, its massification, it's diaspora. Previously, ritual, repetition and reproduction were a matter for religion, practiced in isolated, sacred places. In the modern age, ritual, repetition and reproduction have become the fate of the whole world, the whole culture. Everything is now reproduced and expanded - capital, commodities, art. Progress itself is specifically reproductive; it consists in the constantly repeated destruction of the old. Benjamin understands modernity as the epoch of total reproduction of culture, and hence of its total theologizing." [...] "for Benjamin, the essence of capitalism is a reproductive practice - the practice of the constant reproduction of debt, which functions like the religious ritual that constantly reproduces our indebtedness to God. In both cases, what is involved is a permanent reproduction that is not interrupted, and cannot be interrupted, by any working day - in other words, by any production, any innovation, any new truth: by any redemption of the old debt. Capitalism is thus presented her as a reproductive cult practice, which the whole profane world and the whole of human everyday life has entered into."
In mathematics there are many different kinds of infinity, none of them seem to correspond to the kinds of infinity you talk about. I know that Alain Badiou actually is very interested in mathematics and set theory and all the infinities there.
this was worth zero squared.
If every wealthy person stops accumulating after a couple of million we would be in bad shape globally. Musk is making jobs. I don't want him to stop doing that. I think it's a little bit greedy to worry about how much other people have.
Musk fired half of the twitter staff
Accumulating wealth does not mean you are creating wealth. Rockefeller actively destroyed wealth and that just helped him accumulate more. We are in a bad shape because so much of the worlds resources are in the hands of so few wealthy people. Untold numbers of potential innovators who instead have to put their efforts into mere survival. There are plenty of economists out there exploring how inequality leads to inefficient economies - like a circulatory system with poor flow. Feel free to search "inequality inefficiency" and see what I mean.
You can apply this argument for the ruling class any type of society, from antiquity-slavery to modern-capitalist ones. Of course these societies depend on the ruling class for its governance; dependence is their means of legitimization, its *what structures these societies in their particularity.* As Johnston says of capital, the naturalization of its social relations as its conditions of spurious valorization (what you're doing right here) is how ideology functions. The point of a Marxist critique of political economy is to reveal the conditions that make possible the dependence of societal reproduction on the logic of the valorization of capital, i.e state-violence and thereafter mute compulsion, which results in a dual process whereby the global population becomes violently subsumed under capital before, through the secular deterioration of capitalism's own conditions of reproduction, this increasingly renders there an absolutely redundant surplus population (which was only partially delayed in the post-War era) that we see revealing itself once more in the secular stagnation of the global economy & premature deindustrialization in the global south the past few decades
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