I’m not going to cape for capitalism. I’m hardly a true believer in markets as the most efficient allocators of resources and arbiters of policy.

another comfortable liberal who reduces capitalism to “markets”

But the capitalism of 20 years ago made space for a wild and woolly internet, a space where people with disfavoured views could find each other, offer mutual aid and organise.

capitalism is responsible for none of that.

The capitalism of today has produced a global, digital ghost mall, filled with botshit, crap gadgets from companies with consonant-heavy brand names and cryptocurrency scams.

it’s the same fucking capitalism. of course then you wouldn’t get to brag about how you coined a popular word