Entrepreneurs of the self are the future:

“It’s easier to grow on Instagram than it is to get a raise at a job,” says Angie, a 17-year-old from Montana who says she has made $1,500 since she started posting sponsored content in June. “You manage yourself.”

I agree with the person who suggested the Bible. It would make my job much easier, that’s why.

I haven’t read any of the others except for Zinn’s People’s History, and that was crap on a stick.

Every day more and more people are clocking on to the nature of liquid capital:

It is a fairly easy thing for an established American business to move its corporate domicile to some other country. . . It is also a fairly easy thing for a new business being founded by Americans to incorporate in some other country from the beginning. There is no insurmountable reason for, say, Microsoft or Altria (formerly Philip Morris) to be domiciled in the United States. Silicon Valley’s competitive edge comes from people, and people are mobile.

This is why the fantasies about taxing big business or the hyper-fluid elites to fund welfare programs are dishonest at worst and quaintly antiquated at best. The solid stage of capitalism that allowed for this kind of thing is over. You can’t treat the capital of the 2020s like you did the capital of the 1940s.

Instead of the inane and childish fantasizing of the “tax and fund” nature, we urgently need to discuss the transformation in the global capitalism and look for ways that welfare can exist in this new economic reality.

This is why I ended up supporting Hillary over Bernie. She pretended that fluid capitalism is all cute and cuddly, which stank. But he pretended it didn’t exist at all, which stank worse. You can’t fight something that you don’t think exists.