Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "Channel 4 News"
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We, as a people of the same species, will never solve the UK and the US question of inequality unless we change the way we ask questions.
It is useful to us to compare the rise of poverty and the collapse of democracy in two countries than it is to examine to death developments in one country the same general laws of capitalism.
Even though you and I are different people we are individual members of the same species. And, as a whole, it is the development or lack thereof, of the species that forms the individual. In the same way, the UK and the US are different manifestations of social inequality but are of the same economic system. In that system the economic laws of accumulation of capital (ostensibly called "tools" in the modern lingo) as carried on through exploitation in both these countries producing an extreme polarization of capital and labor, -----and the antagonism between these two social classes is absolute! Not relative.
By what means does this law operate so that the conflict is revealed? Putting aside what we know about the opinions and intentions of the participants, how are these economic tools used in such a way as to create an a-political working class? The point is not to be mechanistic or find a solution that takes politics out of the hands of working people but to expose what is operating behind our backs that makes us a conscious, semi-conscious, and unconscious, instrumentality for capital.
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Part of the problem of being a billionaire in America today is being surrounded by people who do not tell you how you come across to the Public. They instead tell you how connected you are because the Public to the people surrounding the billionaire are a narrow and small number of people who live and have absolutely no connection to the Public. This is the case with Trump and Bloomberg. John Steyer is a billionaire of another mold as he is connected to the public by contracting with black firms and advisors in the process of making his money and will probably get a good percentage of voters for that reason. Biden is simply the older democrats living in a world of a by-gone era, they are the people who suggest WWI trench warfare for 21stcentury warfare, vestiges. The billionaire question on the minds of people, practically sick of the status quo, propelled, Buttigieg, Klobachar, Sanders and Warren in particular to the foreground of the political scene. The question is: Why do we need them when we actually do not?
The other part of the problem of being a billionaire in America, apart from living in a bubble, is that the real Public will have no access to all of the innovations in science, medicine and industry but the billionaires will. All of us will be living in the 1970s while the plutocrats live in the 21st century.
On innovation, the phenomena that has perplexed all economic thinkers on the era of modern industry is the effect of machinery to displace labor, this constitutes an economic paradox! The effect of machinery, science and technology on the worker is a self-evident law between the intensity and duration of labor prolonged indefinitely. But increasing the intensity of work, at some point, becomes complete inefficiency, and the shortening of the work day is a loss to capital strives for a solution. Piece work becomes the solution, what young people call the "gig economy", is piece work to the classical economists. The gig economy intensifies work because the worker is dependent on the machine to make a living. The machine back in the day of early modern industry was a sewing machine; today a cell phone and the data of personal lives harvested through the cell phone is the machine by which profits are accrued for a handful of billionaires. The more people use the cell phone or its applications the more profits are earned. In the early days of modern industry, the more the worker produced a given product they were paid by the weight and the quality of the product, the work intensified. Value was reduced to the quantity of labor. Time as the measure of labor.
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