Capitalism on Steerania

The Digestion of Dangerous Ideas

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

David Graeber spent decades arguing that most of modern work is designed to produce nothing of value while ensuring the people doing it feel guilty for noticing. He organized. He wrote. He helped build Occupy Wall Street. He died in 2020. His books are now on Audible. His face appears on merchandise. His arguments circulate as quote cards on a platform subsequently purchased by the exact billionaire archetype he spent his life dismantling.

Let me put a camera in your toilet

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000

People who say they have nothing to hide are not expressing a personal philosophy. They are reciting a corporate compliance script. The technology sector spent two decades and billions of dollars training the public to equate the surrender of personal autonomy with modern convenience. The training worked. The user hands over their location, their biometric data, and their private conversations. In exchange, the system allows them to turn on their living room lights with their voice. Public relations departments frame this as a technological triumph. It is actually a highly efficient extraction mechanism.

Cheaper humans

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Stop diagnosing job seekers, start interrogating the market

The fastest way to make a broken system look healthy is to turn it into a psychology problem for the people stuck inside it. Describe ghost jobs, fake hiring pipelines, AI filters that never let a human see your name, companies that refuse to train but still want you doing senior level work for mid level pay, and watch what happens. Instead of asking what kind of labor market produces all that, the response usually lands on you. You are overgeneralizing. You are biased. You are being too emotional.

The Incestuous Cycles of AI

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Imagine a family where nobody ever meets a stranger. The parents fund the kids’ businesses, the kids hire their cousins, the cousins marry each other, and every problem is solved by shuffling money and favors around the same dinner table. On paper, the household looks rich. In reality, nobody knows if anyone outside that house would pay for anything they do.

That, roughly, is the current AI economy.

You have three main branches of the family. At one end, chip vendors like Nvidia and AMD, printing silicon and profit. In the middle, the landlords of compute: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle and friends, building data centers and renting them out. At the far end, the AI labs and startups: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, plus hundreds of logo-heavy, margin-light “platforms” sitting on top.

The Stage and the Cage

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The corporate world loves its costume drama. It parades as a land of opportunity, a shining stage where talent and ambition ascend together. In truth, it’s a gilded cage built with stock options and onboarding decks, its bars disguised as “career paths.” The trick isn’t in the architecture; it’s in the illusion. We build the walls ourselves, brick by brick, with our fear of uncertainty and our eagerness to be chosen.