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What's your status?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Social Media Is a Slop Machine for Status

Capitalist ideology engineers the obsession with status and then pretends it's natural. In other words, we've just been puppets for so long we can't see the strings any more. Seta: The idea that capitalism invented its is simply not true. But it is true that capitalism has encouraged it in the sense that inequalities are enormous. There were pre capitalism too. You look a no feudal systems before capitalism. Thas not as though there were no inequalities, but in fact, the equalities much worse pre capitalism. We find very modernity on the left all the bad parts of them for good reason.

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