{"id":7396,"date":"2018-12-01T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:50:22","slug":"why-capitalism-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2018\/12\/why-capitalism-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why capitalism sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve been trying to explain why capitalism sucks, but when you use the term &#8220;alienated labor,&#8221; people just roll their eyes and appear bored. So maybe you should say &#8220;shitty jobs&#8221; instead, which is what Natalie Wyn does on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gJW4-cOZt8A\">Youtube video &#8220;What&#8217;s Wrong with Capitalism, Part I.&#8221;<\/a> Wyn gets extra points for being funny, for knowing her Marxism (she dropped out of a PhD program in philosophy, so she really does know Marxism), and for having a good eye for the medium of video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gJW4-cOZt8A\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BlogDec0118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BlogDec0118.jpg 611w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BlogDec0118-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe Wyn loses points because Youtube sticks an advertisement at the beginning of her video. Or maybe she gains points, because it&#8217;s so ironic: an advertisement preceding a video in which advertising is revealed as a tool for irrational manipulation. In any case, Wyn does lose points for comparing capitalist overlords to reptiles; I happen to like reptiles, even snapping turtles, more than I like Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg. Though even I have to admit, her reptiles are hilariously funny.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: if you&#8217;re trying to explain to someone why capitalism sucks, don&#8217;t hand them Marx&#8217;s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, show them this video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve been trying to explain why capitalism sucks, but when you use the term &#8220;alienated labor,&#8221; people just roll their eyes and appear bored. So maybe you should say &#8220;shitty jobs&#8221; instead, which is what Natalie Wyn does on her Youtube video &#8220;What&#8217;s Wrong with Capitalism, Part I.&#8221; Wyn gets extra points for being funny, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2018\/12\/why-capitalism-sucks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why capitalism sucks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[959,702],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-capitalism","tag-karl-marx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7401,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions\/7401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}