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“post-industrial society” is not real. it’s just what happens when an empire outsources it’s critical systems. our jobs didn’t magically sublimate into Knowledge Work—they just left. our institutions didn’t progress into the utopian Information Econonmy—they’re just gone.
and for what? an unrestricted pool of serf labor in the Global South? an utterly demobilized body politic? like fifteen years of boosted financial rents?

at what staggering human cost?
post-industrial urban renewal was a mirage—you cannot fix popular immiseration with consumption.

“by the 9th century, there were sheep grazing in the Roman forum”

“by the 21st century, there were axe throwing bars in the old factories which we had long ceased to understand”
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