Jenny Stefanotti

We also debuted a proper brand identity and new website alongside our podcast. Denizen is growing up! becomingdenizen.com/

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This week we're talking consensual non-monogamy on the Denizen podcast, so much to cover this is part one of two. #nonmonogamy #polyamory #consensualnonmonogamy #love #marriage denizen-3f96b4c7.simplecast.…

Moments of strain surface our work: individually, familially, and collectively. I re-visited this paper on white supremacy culture (better titled dominance culture IMO) and it was eye opening to see how attributes are coming to the fore in this moment. thc.texas.gov/public/upload/…

also apologies to @pmarca for misspelling his name in my Tweets earlier, which cannot be edited. The blog post reflects the correct spelling.

By popular demand, I turned today's tweets into a Medium post: In Response to Marc Andreessen’s Techno Optimist Manifesto link.medium.com/axlwtFM08Db #technology #progress #technooptimism #capitalism #economics #a16z #marcandreessen #andreessenhorowitz

Didn't mean it as a take down... tho it's so extreme I couldn't help but take the gloves off a bit... irony is most of what he says about tech's historical impact and potential is true, he just fails to recognize that enmeshed with capitalism it does the opposite of his claims

finally @pmarca pls don't include Buckminster Fuller on your list of techno-optimistsm as you describe it so embedded in capitalism. We need to divorce our views of what tech can do (so much) from its enmeshment with capitalism (which is ripping apart society at its seams).

the whole section about enemies... oof. just the whole perspective on enemies / war / fighting / othering reflects a worldview of superiority, us vs. them, a massive part of what is deeply wrong w the world right now (see conflict in the middle east)

"We have enemies. Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas. the bad idea here is that capitalism fueled by technology is what drives human progress.

"We believe in ambition, aggression, persistence, relentlessness – strength. We believe in merit and achievement. " Ufff... there is no true meritocracy in a society with systemic oppression. Again this is a sign of how indoctrinated Mark has become on market fundamentalism.

competition in capitalism as you preach leads to a race to the bottom: nature + labor are inputs to be minimized in service of profit, lower prices yield a competitive advantage. this is the mulitpolar trap. the game theory dynamics of competitive markets are effed, fundamentally

"Infinite games never end, as players collaborate to discover what’s possible in the game. Markets are the ultimate infinite game." >> market (and nation states for that matter) are a multipolar traps. If you're going to invoke game theory pls understand it.

"We believe markets are generative, not exploitative; positive sum, not zero sum." spoiler alert: our entire global economy was built on exploitation. land was stolen in the first place. the US economy was built on slave labor.

uff this one is so unreal. First, "Man?" x2 in this day and age? Errr.. is unpaid labor in the home not productive for society, tho not productive for econ growth bc it's not valued in dollars? the indoctrination of the protestant work ethic here is impressive.

"We believe markets also increase societal well being by generating work in which people can productively engage. We believe a UBI would turn people into zoo animals to be farmed by the state. Man was not meant to be farmed; man was meant to be useful / productive / proud."

"We believe in Milton Friedman’s observation that human wants and needs are infinite." >> they can be made to look infinite when capitalism captures culture and manipulates us to believe such things...

just one on an ocean of responses I could make to this but -- do we really need a new iphone every year? no. manufactured wants in service of growth does not improve lives, other than shareholders. it corrupts our values and makes us lose touch with what truly drives happiness.

"Technological innovation in a market system is inherently philanthropic, by a 50:1 ratio. Who gets more value from a new technology, the single company that makes it, or the millions or billions of people who use it to improve their lives? QED." srsly is this post a prank?

"We believe central economic planning elevates the worst of us and drags everyone down; markets exploit the best of us to benefit all of us." Again, let's not conflate markets with capitalism, esp the particularly pernicious, short term, extractive variant that is so wide-spread.

"We believe there is no conflict between capitalist profits and a social welfare system that protects the vulnerable." I'm not sure how anyone can say this with a straight face given the stats on inequality and policy in this country over the last few decades.