I know capitalism is mostly an impersonal force, but bear with me.
What's his endgame? In the USA and the world.
Wages are already depressed, social services are being cut/privatized, labor movements have been crushed by the state, and this is also reflected in how life expectancy for workers is flatlining or declining (in the US and UK). But it still seems like it isn't enough for these people.
What more does he want?
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Unironically, wages need to go down to keep profits stable. What porky wants, before even increasing his share, is keeping the situation stable. But because the rate of profit only goes down, he needs to open up more markets and lower wages more and more. Because this drives consumption lower, there is a inherent contradiction between capital's means and ends.
More surplus value
This is precisely it.
Porky is trapped and there's no way out. The country is crumbling and falling behind in healthcare, education, infrastructure etc because of the massive bloated US military budget. If the US cuts military spending it'll hurt the defense contractors and the economy while also making the US look weak and inhibit the US empire from keeping its puppet states aligned to it. Continuing to increase military spending however will continue to drain much needed funds from spending on things that are actually important to the average American, like schools, hospitals and transportation, which will increase hostility to the ruling elite. Taxes will continue to rise on the middle and working class as they must foot the bill for the expensive upkeep of the military. Eventually the US will no longer be able to afford these massive military expenditures and will be challenged by an increasingly powerful China. Basically, Porky has no other options available and will continue digging his own grave.
the US military isn't even a big problem. its a wealth transfer to young men who help the economy the most. There is a greater return value when investing in the military than most of other gov programs
It's not the main problem, but it's certainly a big one. Paying its upkeep is bankrupting the country and causing budget cuts to important social institutions, and people are noticing this. They're paying higher and higher taxes for less and less services. I mean yeah it does provide assistance to people who join it but that's a small number compared to the rest of the population. The military is already having a hard time recruiting people. If we had free higher education and/or universal healthcare, it'd be even harder because a lot of people join for the benefits. Eventually the US isn't going to have the military strength to stop China or Russia from achieving their geopolitical goals, it's kind of almost that way now if you think about it. Russia, China and Iran thwarted the US attempt to overthrow Assad and now they're doing the same thing with Maduro. The US isn't getting its way all the time anymore. Not to be unoriginal, but upkeep for the army bankrupted the Roman Empire, and the subsequent revolt of the legionnaires left Rome weak and vulnerable to attack. One day America won't be in the position to finance its military anymore, and that's going to have a lot of consequences.
Wait are you under the Illusion that the majority of Military Funding is a Keynesian Programme to create jobs? Because that is part of it and the US Economy does rely on that in large part but that's not where the majority of the funding goes lmao it's literally all Dividendies for Contractors.
divitendies from mommy
He wants and NEEDS more, otherwise other porkies will crush him.
The economy is BOOMING though. Did you watch the SOTU, where Trump talked about all of his great achievements, such as keeping good relations with DPRK, reducing unemployment and having more women in Congress?
and uh astronauts? can't forget the astronauts
Stop anthropromorphising capitalism. There is conscious goal. Capitalism is an emergent behavior.
It's all maintenance now, do you have any idea how much time, effort and resources go into monitoring and putting down resistance before it can really begin?
The endgame of capitalism is to detach entirely from the human subject and build a digital/hardware network suitable for noumenal forces to inhabit.
just kidding - the endgame of post-industrial capitalism is just an uninhabitable world for complex lifeforms. This isn't intentional, it's just a byproduct of economic growth within this system, and growth is the only way capital can sustain itself, the only logic it can reasonably follow.
My sides are gone.
The "commodification of identity".
I typically stick to regular Zig Forums, but you lefties might want to check out pic related. Think of it as a socially engineered paradigm shift consisting of the worst elements of capitalism taken to their absurd extremes. Enjoy.
Nope, not quite. Read the post above. The solution to the productivity/wage/consumption conflict is the introduction of a monetary system dependent upon credit attributed to those who exhibit the greatest degree of social conformity. Essentially a fiat currency that inflates/deflates for the individual based on how many "good boy points" they accrue. The prediction is that automation will render substantial portions of the population jobless while drastically lower the cost of labor and production. To keep the cycle of production/consumption stable, new commodities which are not readily fabricated will have to be introduced to the market – the concept of purchasable identity being one of them.
Expect porky to provide a facsimile of a socialist "utopia" for you, all the while tightening his grip the global market via thoroughly "directed and monitored spending".
either a Zig Forums-LARP, or Porky at it again- how so? Because the Trump Administration is just political theater. He's a New York Billionaire who ran a TV show. He was allowed to run because he makes good theatrics- he makes a good play of attacking "the elites" while the system utilized and sustaining these elites is kept intact and practically unchanged.
Anyone who believes Trump is any different to the Clintons or the Bushes or any other Porky who made power is deceived. Nationalism won't solve the inherent contradictions and problems of capitalism, nor provide an alternative, nor is a threat to porky except for a few points less "economic growth".
Fools.
Jesus Christ those responses are cancer.
What you're saying doesn't have anything to do with the falling rate of profit though.
a global jewish one world government dictatorship centered in Jerusalem and the third temple (no seriously look this SHIT UP)
I'm convinced it's not a larp. Notice that both of this guys posts were months apart but his story is very consistent between the two posts. Also, consider that the Baker Institute has joint operations with Rice University in Houston, which I suspect is where the OP graduated from. Furthermore, this guys diction is fairly unique and consistent between both of the posts. If it is a larper, he's very dedicated to a larp that went almost entirely under the radar (and likely over most of Zig Forumss heads) for WAY more effort than is needed to literally hit the bump limit four times over (think Q posting).
The way I understand it is that some potential profit is traded for a reduction in market volatility. It becomes far easier to predict or even engineer what people what, and far cheaper to produce abstract commodities with synthetically inflated demand, which is why the OP was hired by the Trilateral Commission. It was necessary to operate trial runs in Latin American countries do determine the efficacy of using marketing techniques to inflate demand for identity-altering cosmetics/surgical procedures. This method could theoretically be generalized for any manner of goods, independent of the labor/material value necessary to produce those goods. Think artificial scarcity as a means to inflate the demand for products which are extremely easy to manufacture.
The take away is that the end goal is to create a system in which wages hardly exist for 99% of the population, who are instead given a social-credit based system of UBI and told to expend on luxuries which have drastically inflated price, given their ease of manufacture. I think the problem here is that "profits" are supposed to be some kind of alluring ambrosia which porky mindlessly chases because he's consciously dedicated to the fundamental principle of capitalism: expand or die. But the truth is that "profits" are just a metric of general market relevance. The purpose of profits is to amass wealth, which permits greater social control. The goal for porky then would be to transform society to ensure tremendous demand for imaginary things purchasable only with imaginary money, unilaterally controlled by "managers" who use marketing methods to steer demand for various commodities.
I've always figured that one of the reason communists/socialists fought for the eradication of wealth disparity was because of the implicit understanding that more money == more power? Was I wrong in this regard?
Porky isn't some cartoon evil genius who wants 'power' or has some big idea for how to best control the masses, the issue is precisely that porky isn't consciously chasing anything, be it profits or 'social control'. There isn't even the survival instinct logic of 'expand or die' in play guiding their actions so much. On an individual level porkies are entirely disinterested shareholders who enjoy leisurely lives and occasionally glance over to check their dividendies are still growing exponentially ever quarter. They don't even manage it, the stockbrokers employed at the stockbroking firm they hired are the ones sorting out their portfolios and doing their best to gamble well with them for maximum growth (when it isn't a computer doing it).
The executives/managers at the corporations these shareholders are investors of do hire all manner of thinktanks and consultant firms where overpaid economics, marketing, psychology and political science/sociology graduates think up increasingly dystopian ways to maximise profits, be it pr campaigns, 'new' products, planned obsolescence and other assorted tricks, or plainly mild social engineering of the sort that has been engaged in since Ford.
Wealth disparity is not the problem, but a symptom and the general aim of the left is not the abstract elimination of wealth disparity to some arbitrary degree but the abolition of private property as such so as to prevent the ills resultant from capitalism at the source. Just as concentrated power is a mere side effect of concentrated wealth (capital), so too is an even distribution of 'power' in society a side effect of the socialisation of wealth.
basically this.
NWO = New World Order
New World = New Heaven and New Earth
Watch Neon Genesis Evangelion to see the delusion of benevolence of this divine plan. World powers believe that the technological singularity will bring us bliss since we will have full understanding of eachother, since the physical realm represents departure from spiritual wholeness (Pandora's box has been opened).
Look at the aesthetic of television and hollywood films in recent times, grey, lifeless, artificial and animated environments with similarly processed scripts. The Stupid Box is a tool of mass mind control, the frankfurt school wrote about this. Watch Hypernormalisation, the entire world is wrapped in the deception of it's own existence, all to condition us to a virtual reality, all for the sake of anti-philosophy and religious fulfilment. Only communism can save us from this decadence. Cube = Borg.
religion isn't real retard lol
sort out your ontology
Also just because you have come to the rational conclusion that there is no truth in religion doesn't mean that most of the world has. This includes world leaders. Ever noticed how all these pop artists and elites follow these new age religions? Oprah even shills The Secret on her show. She is a billionaire. You can be dumb and evil at the same time. We are all looking for meaning in the world.
new age religions are particularly retarded.
Yes they are. But if porky believes in it, then you're at the mercy of insanity. It helps to be educated on these subjects.
I think your interpretation is too conspiratorial. "The elites" are in disagreement. People like Bill Gates vs. the Koch brothers vs. military-industrial complex types have different beliefs about what direction things need to go in. Trump also represents a different faction, something like the racist Pat Buchanan types. They've always existed, but he is a particular expression of that, and a lot of the liberal billionaires are in strong disagreement with him about how to maintain global hegemony. They see him as dismantling alliances with other western powers that are necessary for maintaining open global markets, as well as fighting the big enemies to America's international financial dominance (Russia, China). It isn't a ruse that they vehemently attack Trump in the liberal media, they really hate him and feel like he is fucking everything up. But it isn't because he is directly challenging the entire apparatus of power/class society. It's simply a strong disagreement about how to manage American empire.
Everyone uses this type of transcript when they aren't prepared to face the very real religious themes of the show.
Some of them are highly politically engaged, but all for different reasons. Also, the state itself organizes a lot of the more "cartoon evil" expressions of capitalist interests. The Pentagon, State Department, IMF, World Bank, the EU etc. have individuals who are consciously engaged in perpetuating or growing liberal markets and global dominance of the chief NATO powers.
You're correct that many bourgies are just going about their lives, that their interest only extends to policy specific to their industry or to national tax policies etc. and that many can even look favorably on welfare state policy simply because they think it is less cruel. Many petit-bourgies aren't even particularly concerned with excessive accumulation. These are people that run law firms, doctors offices, local restaurants, bars, boutique clothing shops, print shops, auto shops, whatever it may be. These people may work semi-regularly in their businesses and simply collect a steady profit year over year with little eye for growth, putting the money away in typical financial investments anticipating a comfortable retirement. But as Marx or any other Marxist political economist might say, these people don't really represent the big capitalism, the one that really runs industrial society and makes it grow. That is the ruthless business owners that do pursue growth, engage in competition to consume market share, to expand their market, to cut their costs. These are the kinds of people who are more likely to become politically engaged when they reach certain scales of growth, because their possibilities for growth actually run into politics. Real behemoths even start putting people into high state offices in foreign countries, employ death squads, lobby the military-industrial complex to serve their interests etc.
I believe I have a solution…
he put religion in cause it seemed cool dicktard
There is no coincidence between the substance of the show and the esoteric religious analysis found in that wisecrack video I linked. It is a bit more than "death of the author" stuff.
Like I said, you're protecting your pride in bashing otakus (of whom I'm not) for the sake of laziness in your attitude of resistance against contemplating deeper religious and political themes of the show. The object of the show is existential, Shinji chooses imperfect human existence over the bliss of nothingness, death, since the dignity of life is an end in itself. It is a minor anti-suicide sentiment which obviously correlates with Anno's depression at the time of the show's creation. The idea that living in Hell is better than dissolving into Heaven has certainly effected my perspective on existence and the human condition. Why are you so dismissive of this type of enjoyment?
Those poor children, there is no "goal" here in all this. You can get the same answer asking an ethnic/racial nationalist Zig Forumsyp what the ultimate point of their methods and goals are, and simply asking "but why?" in response to every answer they give you. What you're eventually left with is "because I can/want to." Likewise, at a certain point the accumulation of capital, and all of the "globalism" side-effects, ceases to be rational and boils down to "because we feel like it."
all of this is terrifying if true. i would like to to believe the bourgeoisie are not organized enough to execute this plan themselves, or to even come up with a plan such as this, but when you consider that the state could easily offload all the intellectual hard work of creating this plan to think tanks it figures that the bourgeoisie don't even need to be organized to create this plan. the think tanks come up with the draft of the plan and the state presents it to the top bourgeoisie at some secret meeting to get the OK.
There is a reason why the FIRE (Finances, Insurance, Real Estate) Economy supports the Democrats in the USA and the Industrial Economy supports the GOP.
When you think of it the FIRE Economy wants to maintain The System. Fractional Reverse banking allows for people to get homes easy, everyone is happy and everything is neat and orderly. Meanwhile the Industrial Economy wants to abolish The System such as getting rid of Fractional Reverse banking because then people have to work hard in order to get a home.
You're either gonna get a nice cushy everyone is nice to everyone FIRE Economy or the Hard Working Mean and Honest Industrial Economy. The FIRE Economy would've survived nicely if not for 9/11 and the GOP suicide bombing the USA via giving Tax Cuts which is causing the Rich to soak up all the money thus literally sucking the profits out of economy.
The endgame of capitalism is to make money all other goals are secondary.
This isn’t a problem for Porky, he’ll just move on to China, rinse and repeat. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to America after capital leaves, though I doubt that the people living their will find it pleasant.
Becoming this
they just want some appreciation.
delet this, now