The problem capitalism poses isn't just about inequality, it's about everything. Everything that is broken is broken because the plutocrats need it to be broken and they need a lot of things to be broken. Not just housing, infrastructure, etc, but academia, science, culture.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) September 6, 2021

I don’t think people understand how much this occurs, and how pervasively. I was telling my partner about the corporate/plute to academia to think tank to media/press release propaganda pipeline and she was a bit agog because she’d never really heard or thought about it before, but unknown to most that’s how 60-80% of the information out there gets to the public.

Scientism is correct, of course — this brokenness is a feature, not a bug. It’s what explains lockdowns, travel restrictions and all the related destruction that was triggered by the pandemic but continued and is continuing for other reasons.

These days if it makes the plutes richer it’s good, and if it doesn’t, it’s bad.