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Favoriting August 10, 2020: Joel Kotkin, author, "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism"

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Tonight: Joel Kotkin, author, "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism"



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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, by Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin's website

PA's Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon questions Jeff Bezos about his anti-competitive pursuit of Diapers.com (from the Big Tech hearings on July 29 - see details - see also the Wall Street On Parade coverage)

• See last week's Techtonic episode (Aug 3, 2020 show) for more hearings clips, and the interview with Lisa Macpherson, who wrote The game is rigged

How to Help Lebanon After Beirut Explosion (NYT, August 5) - thanks to Sheila B. for the pointer.

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listener james from westwood:

Howdy, Mark and all! Looks like it's serf and turf for dinner!
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ultradamno:

Mark! Techarlmagne Tha Tonics!
  6:00pm
David in London:

Evening Mark and all Technoids.
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TDK60:

Hello there.
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Handy Haversack:

Mark and the Techyon Drives! Good to be here with you.

Glad you could make it, David!
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Bas NL:

Hi Mark! Techtonicalisms!
  6:03pm
Dave Miss:

Howdy all skeleton crew and Mark!
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I k e:

Wasn't diapers.com located in Jersey City very close to WFMU, or am I thinking of some other company purchased by Amazon?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
melinda:

hi gang
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Mark Hurst:

@James, @Ultra, @DiL, @TDK60, @Handy, @Bas, @Dave, @I k e, @melinda - welcome to one and all!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

¡ɔᴉuoʇɥɔǝ┴
  6:05pm
David in London:

“I’m sorry Congresswoman, I don’t..., errr, .... we’ve never, sorry... what was the question congresswoman?”

Hey Handy, Ultradamno, TDK.
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Mark Hurst:

@KfHP nice
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ultradamno:

Hiya Ken
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ultradamno:

Hiya DiL!
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ultradamno:

Got my swag today!
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Handy Haversack:

ultradamno, me too!
  6:09pm
Old Dave:

We've forgotten our Monty Python instruction on this topic.
  6:09pm
Dave Miss:

Written recently from my friend Stefan:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-time-to-let-the-serfs-return-to-the-fields
  6:10pm
Listener Robert:

One thing you have now that resembles the guild system of long ago are the constraints on labor mobility caused by formal occupational and business licensing and informal credentialism.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Not likely lost on anyone here that Marx illustrated history in just this manner
- as a straight line continuum from Slavery to Feudalism to Capitalism...& on a very good day - beyond.
Here on small-town New England - we remember the factory bosses who were also the landlords...
Can it escape anyone's sight that they're dragging us back ??
  6:11pm
Listener Robert:

There's a great many lines of work now that it's infeasible to go into unless you want to orient your whole career around them.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Handy Haversack:

Though one issue might be that the middle class has always only been a Western / Global North phenomenon -- and generally white -- that was a screen for the continued existence of a massive serf class. The middle class became the great generator of neoliberalism as they were trained to preserve their own privilege as the global serf class continued to be exploited to create it. If they (me, too) are losing it now, allying withe the serfs is likely the only decent way to go.

Not prejudging the guest, just stating some principles.
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coelacanth∅:

i don't thing crapple has improved since snow leopard
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Handy Haversack:

Not sure the answer to bad capitalism can ever be more capitalism ...
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coelacanth∅:

they're drowning! give them water!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

This ! As powerful as Tech has gotten - it is stifled by Monopoly ! Facebook vampires MySpace - but none shall challenge the developmentally stunted dorm boy Zuck.
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Fredericks:

In the days of the company store, store owners would decide what you could afford. Black folks liked the Sears catalogue because they could buy nicer clothes and have them delivered.
  6:20pm
castor:

Hi Mark and everyone! I’ve been writing some sci-fi of a future feudal/dark age, post climate change induced societal collapse, but it’s dominated by the new religion, basically techno-Gaianism, all the new age spiritual and transhumanist trends turned into totalitarian fundamentalism purporting to save humanity through complete submission. Looks to be exciting times!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
Mark Hurst:

@castor sounds interesting! I hope it remains fiction......
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ledzeppelinsucks:

there are more rednecks in CA than any other state. why do people think it is full of gays, movie stars, surfers, hot chicks and rich people?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
ultradamno:

Well, it is literally where the vast majority of movie people live
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PaulRobeson1920:

Debt peonage in Guatemala. Gives meaning to the concept of “Banana Republic”
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Episode of Le Show by Harry Shearer interview with author of Goliath - a history of Monopoloy in the USA : there has been success for Labor in the past - it's not completely new :
harryshearer.com...
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Handy Haversack:

Yeah, he said it's a global phenomenon and then proved it by naming the global North.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
Mark Hurst:

I quoted the author of "Goliath" (Matt Stoller) in this morning's Wake & Bake Little Slice of Tech Pie segment.
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ultradamno:

And I think Texas would beg to differ on the redneck count.
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PaulRobeson1920:

Just parked the lorry... The Pigeon sent me
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ledzeppelinsucks:

CA has a hell of a lot more rednecks than any state
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Mark Hurst:

@Paul welcome, fellow glistener!
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coelacanth∅:

what's a redneck?
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ultradamno:

Show me the census numbers under redneck. I'm still voting Texas.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

What, pray tell, does the modern serf retirement plan look like?
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Bas NL:

We'll reach the 17th century again soon.. ;)
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Mark Hurst:

@coel perjorative term I don't like, not sure how it applies to tonight's show
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ledzeppelinsucks:

coel drive from Yreka to El Centro and you will see
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chris:

hi, Mark and folks.
interesting conversation, provoking thoughts...
to your point, ledzepp, most of the hate groups that exist in the US are well represented in inner and mountain California.
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Handy Haversack:

Yokes, Ken. Yokes.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

California is very large & has more of everything. Lots of ahh - lots of Money. Not all Liberal / Left ...& - what I call California Republicans... : vote for money - but if *your* daughter needs an abortion - it's a-ok....
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Lots of *Agg - agriculture.
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ledzeppelinsucks:

agriculture is the biggest business in CA
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Plenty of Weapons manufacture in Cali...
  6:33pm
Old Dave:

This guy understands the Chesterton/Belloc ideal of Distributism, as described over 100 years ago.
Owning your home makes you care about your community, owning a small farm makes you able to support a community, etc.
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ledzeppelinsucks:

and people that live in CA don't call it 'Cali'
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Webhamster Henry:

It's good to get back to Wendell Berry.
  6:36pm
Old Dave:

Berry is the essential author on all this!
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ultradamno:

www.youtube.com...
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Mark Hurst:

@Webham @Old Dave agreed!
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Webhamster Henry:

When I lived in NYC, I was completely walkable & telecommutable EVEN TO JOBS IN NYC.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
ultradamno:

You say nihilistic, I say realistic, let's call reproduction off.
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mariano:

I plugged this on another show, but English writer Jim Crace wrote a novel, "The Pesthouse," about a "medieval" post-apocalyptic US: www.goodreads.com...
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Megaroni:

What an incredible interview- thank you Techtonic for bringing us topics so relevant for our societal collapse
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Handy Haversack:

It might be my vasectomy talking, but I have to say I find this guest a little ... reactionary might overstate it except that he named exactly the *extremely white* and the illusorily-prosperous time he wants to restore.

I guess "bougey" gets it done.

He is rhetorically gifted. And smart. But convinced that what led to *his* success is what leads to success. What it leads to is the global ruin that we confront right now.
  6:41pm
Barbara in PA:

Reshoring is already becoming a priority in many countries, not just the US, for a number of reasons.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
nickybones:

Sounds like he's mostly advocating reformist policies rather than dismantling. Which, fine. But, a lot of us are past that idea.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Bas NL:

Kotkin has a point.. but what to do?
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TDK60:

Alternate ideas already long existed - cooperative economics, decentralizing, more democracy.
  6:44pm
Barbara in PA:

Handy Haversack, just saw your comment. I was getting a similar uneasy feeling about the guest's pronouncements.
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Webhamster Henry:

Medieval history was written by ... guess who.
  6:45pm
johnzo:

hell yea! we need a people's party. missed most of this, gotta remember to go back & listen to the whole interview
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Handy Haversack:

Hi, Barbara!

I guess it was just that he said he identified with a govt. that sees its job as moving people (Truman admin., so -- white people) into the middle class, whereas I want government to think of its job as protecting all of us from the existence of class.
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ultradamno:

@Handy Speaking my language now.
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coelacanth∅:

Handy Hear Hear!
  6:47pm
sufferwords:

Thanks Mark.. you’re response to it all is one that resonates - basically shit’s fucked so probably a good idea to unfuck it
  6:48pm
kevlicki:

Damnit, late to the party again!
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Webhamster Henry:

A side effect of the Monopolistic suppression factor is that Startups have to be really stupid or useless not to be squashed by them.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Not so sure. Wages graphed against Cost of Living & Productivity have gone down since the early 1970s - & this has been the design of the Right Wing - eventually the Karl Rove assassination of cooperative bipartisan government - which was the background to the major Democratic sellout to neoliberalusm the sold out Corporate press & media don't investigate or report.
Our contemporary Tech & New Media realities have intersectionality with this
- but that's not the same thing exactly...
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Handy Haversack:

Rev Rab -- graph it against the salaries and wealth concentration of those who work for Big Tech. They mostly just trade employees among them. An insane amount of the money that workers used to be paid is now concentrated in those companies.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

People are selling books - & why wouldn't they...
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ultradamno:

Which is why, in the brick and mortar world, there are large areas that have been only served by empty Wal-Marts
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coelacanth∅:

Thank you ronnie raygun for making it all possible.
  6:52pm
Old Dave:

Who else bought the Kotkin book on Amazon? I must slap myself now.
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TDK60:

Thanks Mark.
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PaulRobeson1920:

Remember- Being born a Citizen is political... We get the concept of “Citizenship” and “Democracy” from Ancient Athens. Democracy and small r republicanism are birthed by a highly, highly, literate society. Where my Philosopher Kings at?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Ronnie wins the Cold War for Crapitalism !
...Drumpf bargains with Putin...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Mark! Another thinker! Much needed and much appreciated!

Thanks, Skeletons!
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Bas NL:

Thanks Mark!
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Mark Hurst:

@Handy thanks as always for joining!
  6:56pm
David in London:

Thanks Mark.
  6:56pm
P-90:

When you guys are discussing the rollback of legal constraints in monopolies that made all this possible , don’t forget it was one Robert Bork that played THE key role.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
PaulRobeson1920:

How would people maintain full human dignity amidst the crumbling Roman Republic? Philosophy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Mark! Thanks guest and Thanks skelecrew!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
PaulRobeson1920:

“How do you know hes the king”!!
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Corey:

Thanks for the great show Mark! Wiser after the past hour as usual.
  6:57pm
Old Dave:

There we go!
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Mark Hurst:

@Bas @coel @Corey thanks!
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Handy Haversack:

'Elp! 'Elp!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thanks.
PYTHON. Genius.
  6:57pm
P-90:

*restraints ON monopolies
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PaulRobeson1920:

“He’s not covered in shit” haha
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Mark Hurst:

@Old Dave you knew it :)
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Handy Haversack:

Listen to Dennis, Kotkin!
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ultradamno:

You can't trust pond dwelling women, that is true.
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Handy Haversack:

Strange Women Lying in Ponds. That is the ultimate title for any autobiography.
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Mark Hurst:

Somewhere I came across a meme - "Strange Women Lying in Ponds 2020" - as a presidential campaign poster
  7:00pm
P-90:

“NOW you see the violence inherent in the system!”
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Ken From Hyde Park:

"I'm being repressed!" Thanks, Mark.
  7:01pm
Chuck Halbach:

Cannot top Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Bring out your dead...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Splunge For Me Too
~~~~~2020~~~~~
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ultradamno:

Here it is www.pinterest.com...
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