Danterious

Yeah my mistake. I'm gonna fix the title.

I specifically said we are in a post-scarcity information society. I didn't say everything is post-scarcity.

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It seems like he removed the ad read from the video. So I'm guessing he was taking the criticism to heart.

Interesting take. Could you elaborate?

Yeah quite a few of his videos feel like that.

The content is good but then comes the ad read being read with the same enthusiasm as the video which just makes the video feel insincere.

Ok thx I'll take a look. Also what do you think revolutionary action would look like then?

limiting our use of capitalist infrastructure when we can but ultimately our society is constructed in a way that forces us to engage in consumption.

Yeah it does force us to engage but any action taken doesn't have to be a be all end all.

For example the trend of De-Googling your web experience isn't done all at once. It usually is just replacing google services with other options over time.

The same can be done with capitalism. Find other ways you can get what you need and replace capitalism with that other method.

Edit:

No amount of subversion will allow us to separate the proletariat from the bourgeois class; they will not allow us to not consume.

That is a little defeatist. Even though it seems like you still advocate for revolutionary action it seems like you think the bourgeois class is infallible which just seems to be wrong.

Ok I agree with that definition, but the suggestion that you were making, at least how I interpreted it, was to start a socialist company to try and be successful within that same exploitative system which I think sort of misses the point of what I was trying to say.

Isn't the "company" part of what you mentioned still playing the game?

Huh thx for the book suggestion.

That is sort of my point. If you play the game you are going to lose (in this case get co-opted) so you need to be able to not play the same game that they are.