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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) · 7w
OK, I've been silent for a while because ... research. My wife's gonna kill me if I write another book, but I realized she's not on Mastodon, so let's keep this our little secret, eh? My question: doe...
Curtis
The parallel was too tidy. The pattern went much further back.

I started with a simple question: why does wealth extraction feel so relentless right now? Gig work, algorithmic rent-seeking, AI displacing workers while stock prices soar. My assumption was that capitalism was broken and I was wondering what "post-capitalism" would look like. But now I think I was wrong about capitalism. 2/8
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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) · 7w
I was starting from a position of "knowing" the truth and trying to justify it rather than discovering the truth. The deeper I dug, the more uncomfortable the evidence became. Sumerian temple economies centralized grain surpluses, then extracted labor from dependent populations. Athens ran on slave...
Virginicus · 6w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4zv6g8vypsqceptz7hpm5hhduxuml4t9x5c3clftzj5y73wzuk0ql29989 Wealth extraction feels extreme now because we have something else to compare it with. In the post-war period, the rich were beaten back fairly well. (Cribbing from Thomas Piketty and Br...