• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 days ago

    Well, yeah, it’s not our security they’re worried about.

    They’re worried about their security. The security of their big mansions, millions or billions of dollars in the bank, the security of being able to be a horrible fucking weasel whose decisions end people’s lives but sleep like a baby at night knowing no one can touch you.

    But they’re also small-minded enough to not realize how this compromises everyone’s security, because they were busy only worrying about securing themselves.

    Like look at the UHC CEO who just got shot in broad daylight. The company wasn’t even willing to spring for good security for a guy who metaphorically put a noose around countless people’s necks.

    They only care about their own security but they’re too myopic to see past themselves enough to understand the cascading consequences of not caring about anyone else’s security, and how that might, in the end, undermine their own security.

    We’re not dealing with the cleverest people, here.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      20 days ago

      We’re not dealing with the cleverest people, here.

      If you continue to think they are stupid, you will never understand how power really works in capitalist states.

      https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/soren-mau-marx-mute-compulsion/

      In the end, capitalists participate in the same totality as the rest of us, and they are often just as subject to the “tyranny of necessity” as the lower orders whose labor they command. In [Søren] Mau’s terms, the class domination we see in capitalism is “impersonal,” since it isn’t this or that particular capitalist who ultimately dominates workers but rather capital itself. This is why it is so necessary to understand capitalism as an alien totality, rather than condemn it through pointing to notably bad capitalists.