In other words: your job in capitalism is basically to act as a vessel through which the capitalists can get richer and obtain more capital.

Sounds fun, doesn't it?

#capitalism #DisposableBodies

Under capitalism, you're meant to satisfy all of your life's desires by buying things from the capitalists.

Under capitalism, you do not DIY. You do not share things with your neighbour, nor will they be sharing any things with you. And you never, ever, ever are satisfied with who you are, with what you already have :blobcatverysad:

#capitalism #DisposableBodies

Did you know that one of your ‘duties’ (let’s call it that) as a person under capitalism is to buy and consume things? #DisposableBodies #capitalism

Choose your player type!

You can play the capitalism game as:

🧛 Capitalist (aka ‘business owner’, ‘investor’):

Your challenge will be to own things, and to cash in on value produced by workers

🧟 Worker:

Your challenge will be to produce things for the capitalist, off of which the capitalist can make a profit

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #WageExploitation

What’s the aim of capitalism?

The language of the capitalism game is that of: profit, profit, profit, and that of growth, growth growth 📈 💸

The only thing that matters when playing the capitalism game, is capital accumulation

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #HealthCommunism

If you’ve got some savings or own a laptop, does that make you a capitalist?

:meowsignno:

Capitalism is a very specific economic-political structure:

* When a person, business or organisation owns and controls wealth or assets, but doesn't use these to produce things themselves
* Instead, they get other people to do the actual work, paying them a wage that's lower than the value of the work produced
* They slap a price tag on it, and 🤑 sell that on a market for a profit

#DisposableBodies

What is capitalism? in 56 seconds ⚡💰

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Have you come across this curious game called ‘Capitalism’?

They say Capitalism is ‘very realistic’, and offers ‘hundreds of hours of gameplay for the corporate enthusiast’ :blobcatmoney:

Join the deep dive in your latest episode: https://vulnerablebydesign.net/disposable-bodies-reading-health-communism/

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #health #HealthCommunism #sickness #HealthCare

The official brief for this episode was to discuss the book #HealthCommunism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant (fyi: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism)

We only get to the book at around ~ 15 mins in, because we first had to cover this *tiny detail* of how capitalism works :blobcatbusiness:

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #health #HealthCare

Hey, how are you doing?

Feeling all right? Or are you maybe a bit depleted from a heavy week? :meowsleep:

No worries, mate. We’ve got a fresh episode to take your mind off of things for a couple of minutes: https://vulnerablebydesign.net/disposable-bodies-reading-health-communism/

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #health #HealthCommunism