Dr. Malone uses different words, but what he discusses (he calls surveillance capitalism) is essentially Corporatism, which is another name for Fascism. In his recent Substack post he points out the difference between Voluntarism (Capitalism) and the Fascism we actually suffer in the West today.
"Murray Rothbard considers capitalism to be a “network of free and voluntary exchanges” where producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others (ergo: “Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges…”). According to Rothbard, true sources of wealth are:
"Individual Entrepreneurship: Innovation and risk-taking by individuals drive economic growth and wealth creation.
"Voluntary Exchange: Free markets and voluntary trade allow for efficient allocation of resources and wealth creation.
"Gold Standard: A monetary system tied to gold or a similar commodity-based standard restricts the money supply and prevents government manipulation.
"In “The Anatomy of the State”, Rothbard argues that there are two means for producing wealth:
"Economic Means refer to producing and exchanging goods and services through voluntary human effort, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Economic means are additive, generating wealth for all parties involved.
"Political Means refers to using force or coercion to seize wealth from others. Political means are reductive, distorting incentives and undermining long-term prosperity. Taxation is a form of theft in which political means are used to seize wealth from others. Reasoning by analogy, Surveillance Capitalism is a form of theft in which accumulated personal wealth in the form of fundamental, personal, and proprietary aspects of your soul are extracted and commodified without your permission."
I disagree with Malone on various issues, Zionism, Statism, etc., but not on anything above quoted. Capitalism is Voluntarism. It isn't what we labor under today, Cronyism of a Kakastocracy, but there are vestiges of Capitalism, mechanisms by which we can voluntarily invest, work with our community(s) to create markets and increase our wealth, use actual money to transact (instead of fiat or CBDC's), and build the real economy to create and develop economic power mutually beneficial to good, honest folks.
Because technology is able to increase our productivity (which is why we use it) most at the front of advance, our Voluntarist development and economic activity has the greatest potential to increase our capital when we adopt the most advanced technology to undertake our commercial enterprises. I have waxed prosaic and profusely regarding decentralization of means of production, which is ubiquitously the fastest and most productive front of tech advance in every field of industry, from agriculture, to power, to IT, to transportation - you name it, table top/garage/backyard means of production is where the most productivity is potential to our every commercial endeavor.
I don't necessarily mean commerce as in making things to sell to other people, but also as in making things yourself that you would otherwise purchase from others. By obviating such commercial activity you are replacing dependence with independence when you can create bespoke local products instead of throwing economic support into the Globalist maelstrom that sucks our sovereignty out of our pockets with every dollar or CBDC transaction.
We are in a transition state today. We are well into the transformation of industry to distributed decentralized production of fundamental aspects of economic development. The centralized mechanisms that formerly were the only way the blessings of civilization were possible are no longer necessary in almost every case, and instead the products that provide benefits to us are today able to be made by us. The infrastructure is being rolled out. The development necessary to make this production technology ubiquitous is underway. While today no one can tell their house to produce a portable communications node, when the transition is mature our personal AI will manage the schema, the resources, the 3D and inkjet printers, CNC, and etc. necessary to spit out a cell phone that can just werk out of the box and connect us via a mesh network to our peers globally.
This seems like fantasy, like belief in magic, today. It's not. All the physics enabling such development is demonstrated. What hasn't happened yet is the time and engineering necessary to take advantage of the physics. That will happen, because more and more people are adopting decentralized means of production and putting in that time to do the engineering work. A lot of the blessings of civilization necessary to our cutting edge felicity today are able to be produced by us in house, on our kitchen table tops, already. Because this tech is still developing, there are inefficiencies, learning curves, impediments to automation that diminish the profitability of such production, but as the engineering time is being put in, such impediments are being reduced every day. It is to our benefit that this happen faster. Lives are in the balance.
Incredible advances were revealed in the last year alone, from the ability to store power in the foundation of your home without appreciable increase in the cost of that foundation, by using concrete doped with lamp black using salt water as electrolyte, to the majority of spacecraft manufacturers adopting 3D printing for the most complex production of parts, such as rocket motors that are vastly more efficient to print with the channels for gas in nozzles rather than to assemble such conduits from parts. Because oligarchs depend on centralization for their wealth and power, particularly important techs have been damned with faint praise, so to speak, such as the ability to print solar panels with graphene ink on PET (what soda bottles are made of), or to print electrical circuits generally.
Were there more enthusiasts working on printing LED panels, circuits, and etc, a lot of the electronics industry would be replaced much more rapidly. Aquaponics is amazing, and since Big Ag is so environmentally - and politically - harmful, is a keystone industry that should be far more adopted, particularly due to the alarmingly high rate of metabolic disease caused by hyperprocessed foods, such as diabeetus, heart disease, cognitive issues, and much else. There's such a broad spectrum of benefits that come from producing wholesome nutrition ourselves that the neglect of this tech is heartbreaking to me. A lot of the reasons for that neglect are by design, because dependence on corporations for food creates political power, as Kissinger noted when he pointed out that controlling a nation's food enables controlling the nation's people.
Folks that intend to be sovereign, that are averse to being rendered to groveling minions of overlords, should be adopting these technologies that are suitable to their personal circumstances and putting in the engineering time that will mature them so that our posterity will be amazed that anyone ever didn't.
Globalism is the ultimate centralization of political power, and decentralization of the means of production is the ultimate creation of individual sovereignty. As 3D printing and CNC continue to advance and be adopted by space manufacturing, it becomes ever more apparent that ultimate sovereignty is the power to vote with our feet, to colonize the practically infinite resources beyond the sky.
The sky is not the limit anymore. It's just the beginning.
Not to add to the words of the good rabbi, but perhaps what He said could be interpreted as:
"what good is it to gain control of the whole world, yet forfeit control of your own soul?"
Power corrupts the soul, causes people to do things they never would have thought they'd do, all to gain and maintain control of the people and environment around them, yet they themselves have lost any peace in their soul, to mind their own business and prosperity. And in the end, their soul is useless as chaff, to be burned in the eternal fire.
Very well said.
Thanks!
Dear @valued-customer !
This is the first time I've heard the term surveillance capitalism, but I agree!
The world I live in is emulating Chinese-style communism while increasing surveillance of ordinary people like me.
The overlords of the world I live in are persecuting individuals who expose their secrets.
I think you know the secrets of the overlords!
I must avoid all conversations I have with you from the surveillance of the Overlords!
So I want to go to America and do free speech!
I hope your health and long life!
I hope you fulfill your heart's desires and live a full life in joy.
Thanks!
Thank you for recognizing the value of making things ourselves we would otherwise have to purchase. I engage in a lot of that activity when it comes to textiles and food--like women of all cultures traditionally have done to help keep their families fed and warm. This production avoids the tax man, too, mostly. !BBH
Since what we make ourselves doesn't incur tax liability, nor do we settle for mere wages for our productive work, but owe nothing to capitalists since they don't own the means of our production (unless we borrow to buy it, and then just to service that debt, not based on our production), 100% of our products are ours to keep, to disburse as we see fit, at our sole discretion and option.
When we make what we need we are free indeed.
Last week I went out hunting crawdads, and as a result learned how to make Crawfish Etouffe, which turned out to be delicious and a pleasant switch from just dipping them in garlicy butter. When we undertake to produce we learn new ways to produce new things and gain the ability to enjoy things we haven't before.
I confess I am tempted to learn about textiles. My grandmother taught me to knit when I was eight, and although I enjoyed it I was unable to continue after our visit was over, since no one I knew knitted, nor did I have anywhere to get the tools and supplies on Baranof Island in Alaska, where we resided. So it is but a very dim memory for me, now in my 60s, and I have this week agreed to build a shower from scratch, roof a house, and remodel a kitchen in an RV, as well as replaced all my countertops in my own kitchen. I likely do not have time to take up knitting, in addition to all I am already doing - and if I did it would cut into my entertainment, such as reading Hive and good comments from good people here.
But, there is a shop nearby that provides tools and supplies to start with sheep, which is certainly a full exposure to the process of knitting! I may have to visit Wool and Wheel. Perhaps next week.
Thanks!
I always have some knitting in my car, by my chair, and in my purse to take advantage of bits of time. I do sewing, patterns, alterations, etc. as well as some crochet and a little weaving. I have spinning on my bucket list. As for food, I love to do preserves and pickles and have a dehydrator.
I have a water bath canner that I put up a dozen quarts of blackberries with a couple years ago, learning to do so then. I am searching for a pressure cooker to tackle tuna, meats, and prepared meals. I have cases of jars, rings, and seals next to my sofa and under my bed. I have collected a couple pounds of raspberries by foiling the deer this year, and am bound and determined to get some salal, native huckleberries, and more blackberries too, this year.
I can't not do it. I'm like an addict, LOL!
Edit: oh yeah, I forgot I have planted half a dozen cucumber plants I intend to learn how to can this year. I have been collecting the juice from my favorite pickles all year. I dunno what I'm doing, but my fridge (the big one) is half filled with jars of pickle juice.
!BBH
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