Capitalism claims to provide people with choice, but what it really does for most people is obscure the choices that are made for them by the wealthy.
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Capitalism claims to provide people with choice, but what it really does for most people is obscure the choices that are made for them by the wealthy. It will show you a hundred choices, only a few of which will be viable for you. If you're lucky.
It's an invisible hand holding your leash instead of a visible one, leading you towards whatever choices might pay your rent and fill your fridge.
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Of course if you either decide not to go where the invisible hand wants to lead you, or if it doesn't lead you anywhere at all, you'll find that visible hand very quickly.
As Graeber said, we often talk about these bureaucratic and market forces as "violence" in an abstract theoretical sense. But if you don't abide their commands you'll promptly receive a threat of very non-abstract violence in the form of an armed agent of the state.
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This is why providing food and housing to ALL people without condition is such a threat to the system. A world where we care for each other could never allow our capitalist system to continue, because it would be a world without precarity.
A world without the invisible hand or the invisible leash.
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Caring for others without precondition is the most radical thing you can do