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"Musk’s total idiocy is structural: it goes back to the very origin of the Greek term idiotes, a person who cannot understand the shared political life of the city. These people cannot understand that their wealth and power are not their sovereign creations but the shared product of the wider state and society that supports and sustains them."
@bcham@kolektiva.socialmckenzie wark theorizes a postcapitalist (though still capitalistic and feudalistic in crucial ways) system of *vectoralism* in which a vectoralist class like the silicon valley baasskap focuses increasingly on controlling avenues of communication and coordination rather than means or sites of production, where factories increasingly cease to be as critical as centralized ownership over platforms and networks
the vectoralist class seeks to enclose and commodify the digital commons, restrict and manipulate information flows, and rent-seek atop an intellectual property regime
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f/comments