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Capitalism is founded on the unlimited wants of human beings. But it may not be desirable or in fact be catastrophic because of the technological progress.

We're drenched in technological politics that it's hard to imagine how it looks

well said

He gives a very lucid answer. Yet, this 1450 - 1750 period, is just 400 years of colonial loot & plunder - when humanity since 10,000 BC or earlier has been destroying, colonizing and eradicating species (much of the mega fauna and flora too)

I don't really understand frontiers here. please could you share your knowledge with me? What is the frontier? How do frontiers function under capitalism? Why does capitalism need frontiers? How does cheap nature relate to frontiers?

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Great enthusiasm! I love this dude!

He is so cool 😎

It all started 2000 years ago That’s when a philosophy came into the world. Three hundred years later, the rulers of the Roman Empire recognized that the subservience of this philosophy made it easier to control their people. On 27 March 380, it was therefore made the state religion. Later this religion would be called Christianity. Symbolic seed capital of their state religion: 1 US-Dollar. . Subservience is also the guarantee that subsequently nobody will dare touching this capital that will be continuously increasing in the future. And Christians have been arming themselves against the unbelievers. Today more than ever before. The unbelievers are also arming themselves, out of self-defense. . And then, the Roman Empire collapsed. But only the Empire collapsed, not the capital of its religion. This capital is preserved. Later it is taken over by the “Holy Roman Empire” that considers itself as the successor of the Roman Empire. However, this Empire also collapsed, while the capital of its religion is preserved. Parts of the Roman Empire as well as the Holy Roman Empire were merged with their religion already before their collapse, and their capital was therefore also preserved in their religion. And over time, it became the largest empire of all times. . How large is the capital of the largest empire of all times today, and who owns it? . capitalocene.com .

Thank you for the interview

Super clear and helpful--thanks!!

I really like this video!!!!! I agree completely

I like this concept “capitalocene” and try to understand it better (reading - with some difficulty - his two recent articles on the subject). I just wonder if this separation of human vs nature wasn’t always present in the ideology of the feudal lords and land lords. They looked at their subjects, in particular the peasants, as some piece of nature that they owned, just like a bunch of work horses. They did not have to put a price on a worker in the sense of wages - the peasants were simply part of the land and had to deliver goods in return for some protection perhaps from rival landlords and marauding soldiers etc. So there wasn’t a concept of value expressed as monetary measure with regards to the subjects. Isn’t it appropriate to think that a value theory and commodification comes when money plays a much bigger role in all relations between people. It looks to me then as if there was always a little bit of that capitalism all along, and only when most processes of transfer of food, materials, and produced goods where accompanied by the exchange and accumulation of money, and that becomes capitalism as we know it.

I have a assignment base on ontology. Can you help me to explain how ontology relationship in political science?

"new relationships are hard because they require self scrutiny and transform" - great words, sadly all too many lack the courage it requires

Thanks for the video !!

The famous Robbins himself!

Some good points there! Thank you Mr. Robbins