In fact, I'd argue that investors — not just those backing pre-IPO businesses, but also those investing in public companies — have become entirely disconnected from production, to the point that an alarming amount of modern business is done to please investors over customers, turning product strategy into a form of symbolic marketing. Our economy isn't one that produces things to be used, but things that increase usage — and the result is the public decay of creativity and innovation.
i think about this shit every time i have to interact with my government provided private health insurance; we pay more to have less here most of all. in the context of poverty and disability and the truth of how benefits programs still represent chains in many ways, it means the loss inherent of any capitalist economy is a crush point, harnessed into forming the edge of the wheel stochastically by translating sloppy capitalist accounting into injuring sick people until we die.
everything in this blighted nation is a back door to, or for, genocide at best.
🐭See also this doll’s refrain “Means testing is what they started calling eugenics when it became unpopular.”
