The Human Necrocapital

In the same way it consumed natural resources to exhaustion, capitalism turned each human into a disposable pair of hands.   All the crimes humanity perpetrated on this planet, it has also perpetrated on itself: destruction, extinction and exploitation are not side effects but essential elements of this civilisation’s operating system. 

We live in a world where those who work the value-producing jobs have become cheap resources for those who do the “bullshit jobs”: pushing paper and shifting blame.  At the top of the social food chain sit those who have made it their job to ensure that those they exploit remain vulnerable, desperate, and fully exploitable.  Most of us are consumed by busy careers with companies that damage people, places and the environment so they can maximize profit.  The psychonomy is destroying the employee and the planet, treating both as single-use commodities.  

Exploitation is most effective when people are kept busy and desperate.  Billions go to work each day, having Teams chats, coffees, sandwiches and given a “purpose” which is ultimately no other than the destruction of the planet.  But when the sandwiches run out it will be too late. There will be no point to any meetings, jobs, food, entertainment or other consumatronic distractions.  As long as The Thing is in charge, this party will end with no food, no music, and few if any, surviving attendees.

George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist.

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