Paul Mason | PostCapitalism, February 2017, Stockholm

[@armanmkhitaryan27]

19:18 "You're pointing out one thing which is Wikipedia, but if you look at the whole IT development that's kind of the exception, no?" No. I work as a software development, and I've worked for some of the biggest Swiss banks and European airline carriers, and believe me the number of open-source products those aggressively predatory corporations use is enormous: from Operating Systems to development frameworks and accounting tools. Without the free solutions provided and supported by the community they won't get by... And the most hilarious and ridiculous thing is that the community doesn't realize that. When they do, the ice will brake off. Fully agree with Paul Mason, in fact reading his book right now - it's brilliant.

[@simonjlkoreshoff3426]

I’m so glad to have Mason’s ideas challenged. I think the presenter does a good job.

[@simonjlkoreshoff3426]

Mason doesn’t strike me as what might be called post-capitalist as post-Marxist. He doesn’t get Marxism and so remains within the capitalist mindset.

[@karl9460]

It is funny that she does not know that we can borrow money for 0% in the UK.

[@SimonHaestoe]

Go to Africa and see how *many* of the countries are currently doing. Because of a spin on capitalism called social capitalism, where capital and "state" work side-by-side in symbiosis. They can't afford to be snobby about who they hire, or demand that everyone knows the theory of everything, so they literally pick up people from the streets and hire them if they can *do* something. A company needs a task done, find someone able to do it and then - for example - a certain percentage of the profits go to welfare or they donate one of x product for every 10 sold. E.g: a formerly homeless person, who is amazing at sewing, sews clothes and then gets to donate a shirt to someone who is still homeless. I'm sure that system too is imperfect and of course the vast majority of african companies don't know this exists, but that doesn't mean it can't grow or wouldn't work. I'd say there is no more effective, or beautiful, way of helping the "weak" than to help them help themselves see that they aren't weak.

[@MrHarveyrex23]

Solution: A moneyless/ marketless/ post scarcity Open source resource based economy.

[@wfat]

Mason crushes her.

[@IanM1984]

No-one crushes anybody. They are comrades. Note how, while at the beginning she often starts a question with "but...", she ends up saying she'd vote for him. Talk of crushing people is just so neo-liberal, with its value of competition above all.

[@torrentialrage]

I think she was asking flawed questions on purpose for the purpose of the conversation.

[@davecross3071]

Is it fair for him to say that Keynesianism failed? I'm not sure that's true.

[@torrentialrage]

Well it clearly did because of stagflation. It's why we use postkeynesinism today.

[@CampingforCool41]

Jesus christ is this supposed to be a debate or an interview?

[@madeleinealder-cossitt5016]

Kajsa crushes him.