2025-04-11

• [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
  • Describes [[Bitcoin]]‘s initial promise and excitement around it, even from those on the left as a potentially [[liberatory technology]].
• But ultimate disappointment as it became another means of capital accumulation for the already powerful.

2025-04-10

• [[Listened]]: [[platform capitalism]]
  • Started it on [[libro.fm]].
  • Seems like a good thematic follow on from [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]] (PC came first of course).

2025-04-09

• [[Listened]]: [[Will Trump’s tariffs tip the world into recession?]]
  • Answer seems to be: possibly, yes.

2025-04-08

• [[Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings]].

  • Some hope, courtesy of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]].

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • Varoufakis has thought out a detailed approach for an alternative future.
  • Only touched on briefly here, but he has a whole other (fiction) book, Another Now, which explores it further.

2025-04-07