[a wide character looks smug with a wide smile]
Your ideology is wrong and can’t work because “human nature” is to exploit others
[a thought bubble is connected to their head]
I really really want to exploit others, exploiting or being exploited is the only way I can picture society please God I play that you let me become an exploiter I dream of it every day
American leftists becoming addicted to extracting social capital this last decade kind of low-key has me thinking he might be right. Not that it’s impossible to live that way but the will to power is just too strong for egalitarian notions to ever become a significant thing again.
We’ve got like a dormant virus in our souls that was just waiting for the internet to exist and for money to get low
What does extracting social capital mean?
Like using other people or their conditions in a social setting to benefit yourself. Think of like how desperate people on the internet are to be seen saying the correct things in front of the correct people.
Or the phenomenon of dunking. When you dunk on somebody on the internet you’re extracting a social value from them. It isn’t as easy of a thing to do IRL or before the internet age but here we’re operating in a marketplace of attention. Capitalism has infiltrated our very social interactions so we act like capitalists even when there’s no money involved.
How is this measured?
Vibes mostly. Tracking karma like reddit encouraged people to act like they’re in a market but it wasn’t a real measurement in any way other than affecting the sort of posts and comments. I suppose if you wanted to put a number on it it’s probably the number of people a given interaction reaches. Or maybe the amount of time people spend engaging with it.
There’s no thing like an American leftist because there’s no left in the US.
And who thinks otherwise are just dumb mouth shitters who only had US propaganda for
mealspasture all their lives.Well, I thought you had an accurate take up until the tourettes goblin made you reply to yourself there. Something tells me your own ability to make anything good in the world might be a vestigial non-prority next to impotently talking shit on the internet. So at least we have that in common
Don’t ever compare your greedy cynicism with my accurate take on such brain dead society divided between bleach drinkers and those who expect voting out genociders (to make other genociders take place).
“☹️ I’m not like other internet snark idiots. I fight people on the internet for real”