Submitted 6 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-interview/
Technofeudalism
Nope. We’ve been over this. It’s still just capitalism and regular old fascism and neo-feudalism. Don’t need a new term to try to imply that technology is the cause. Doesn’t matter that the tech industry is involved, it’s still just wealthy people using profitable industry to try to cement power over others.
This isn’t capitalism it’s feudalism and technology is a dependency. You’re still much more correct than that headline.
To Varoufakis, every time you post on X, formerly Twitter, you’re essentially toiling Elon Musk’s estate like a medieval serf. Musk doesn’t pay you. But your free labor pays him, in a sense, by increasing the value of his company. On X, the more active users there are, the more people can be shown advertising or sold subscriptions.
Varoufakis likes to say what a lot of people like to hear 🤣😉.
Is that a way of saying you think he’s wrong?
I thought the book had an interesting core idea, even if his grasp on technology seems rather loose and I really disliked the literary device he used to explain said idea.
What’s your take on it?
Varoufakis likes to position himsetas a sage. Someone that “saw it coming and warned everyone but nobody listened”. He likes to pop back and pretend he had solutions or influence but the world just conspired against him.
I don’t know if he’s wrong on this one. I do know he often sprays a bunch of doomsayer predictions and only reviews the ones he was vaguely in the same ballpark for. He’s the classic embodiment of the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy and, naturally, a lot of people want to believe what he’s pedaling. If he sells a few books or gets paid to give speeches here and there then so be it. After all… he did warn us.
Endmaker@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sounds like Fediverse’s ActivityPub
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is the way.
podperson@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That would mean you would be indefinitely supporting and sending traffic to X. Why not tell your million followers “I will only be posting on Bluesky now - please check out my profile there [link]” and dump X? If you’re worried about your numbers dropping moving to the other platform, then your “followers” probably don’t mean much or weren’t that interested in what you have to say anyway (so what’s the point other than a score)? Maybe I’m just doing the old man shaking his fist at the sky routine.