There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn’t so. Not because of what Marx said about the contradictions of capitalism, because, as I discovered, capital is an end in itself and no more.

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So I came across the book by Piketty on capitalism and was blown away. It appears he’s delivered conclusive proof that under capitalism the rich do indeed keep getting richer…

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Kars Alfrink

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.