Of course, looking back over this, my reaction to the whole situation is, essentially: “We shouldn’t make a metaverse, and if we do, you shouldn’t be the ones to make it.”
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I tend to set my reading goal a lot lower than Edgar, for a variety of reasons. One of them is the fact that I think aiming to read a large number of books over the course of a year means that you engage less deeply with them. Or, at least, when I do that, that’s how it works for me. Still, I have read a few extremely good books this year.
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it’s 2021; we’re locked in now, and it already feels like it’s been a full year since 1 January. Needless to say, this has been a lot to deal with, and I have been taking refuge, once again, in the written word.
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So, classes start for me next week. I have three, and there are (obviously) major computer system problems that are making getting the damned things set up a real headache. As such, two things come to mind: first, for the next sixteen weeks or so, posts might come later in the day; second, I need time to work on things, and the level of invention I normally aim for isn’t really possible this week.
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The tendency of profits to decline is is what drives the supposed innovation of the capitalist system: the need to always move to a different horizon of extraction, to find untapped sources of value that can stave off this heat-death for just a little longer. Sometimes the state intervenes and slaps them away from one horizon of extraction (see: child labor laws,) but this only rarely happens.
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