Here's a problem I've been worried about for a while and I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts or could recommend related reading.

How can we have electronics without state violence? I feel like modern tech requires mining vast quantities of ores under circumstances that no one chooses voluntarily as well as an organized world economy if only for logistics.

I feel like an attractive and easy answer is some kind of Marxist "building productive capacity" argument, but I'm not convinced, since that kind of productive capacity requires the exact same kind of tech I'm worried about, so begs the question I'm interested in, I think? Also it probably requires ongoing coercion, but maybe someone has figured something out already?

#Anarchism #StateViolence #ProductiveCapacity

How in the world can we allow the #corporateMedia to even depict #JohnHoward in any kind of positive light.

We live on a desert island lacking large hills and mountains that could store water etc. and yet, he bribed people to procreate. It was called a #BabyBonus, he also abused refugees (cynically, admitted 2014 on #RadioNational) and increased #immigration to such extreme levels that it had the effect of draining our #productiveCapacity (see #holesAndHouses).

He'd be bet on an #imprisonList.