when capitalism met identity politics.
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Nitasha Tiku's article: www.washingtonpost.com/techno...
The Celebs Have Gone Crypto: www.washingtonpost.com/arts-e...
Katy Perry's post promoting FTX: / cc82mjovdyv
To get a general understanding of what the attention economy is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenti...
Other secondary sources are cited throughout the video :)
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you really gotta replace "can" by "has to"
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watching Alice feels like I'm being hypnotized, but in a good way.
The whole NFT circus from the start made me think of „The emperor‘s new clothes“, because it uses the same arguments to quite literally sell you nothing (well a link). So in regards to supporting (female) creators, I‘ll just stick to the more conventional methods … and thinking about it, a lot of the small arts and craft stores I love are run by women, they just might not make some top 100 list.
👏👏👏 Brilliant piece, Alice. Crypto's progressive-washing is something we need to call out and reject en masse, it is a firmly right-wing consumerist dystopia.
I'd like to start a discussion about this point. From my limited understanding Crypto kind of couches itself as libertarian and anti authoritarian. There certainly may be lots of different ideological motivations for traders, some likely right wing, others left wing; but what makes you label it as a right-wing consumerist dystopia given it is potentially necessarily libertarian given the fact that it is a de-centralized and therefore de-nationalized currency. I think the obvious problem is that while it does open the economic field for those outside of the traditionally conceptualized bourgeois it perpetuates the marginalization of proletariat elements and minority groups as though libertarian it is inherently "hyper-capitalist". wud luv ur thoughts
@@notsocommonplace It's not too complicated. Libertarianism originated in the left-wing for being anti-authoritarian, but in modern America has evolved into a more right-wing philosophy because it embraces capitalism and exempts power acquired through the "free market" as more legitimate.
Crypto people aren't just upset that there's a boot on their neck. They want to become the ones who wear the boot.
@@fluxophile I really appreciate your perspective and your thoughtful response. In all good faith, however, wouldn't it be more right to say that capitalism itself cannot be aligned with a hard and fast adherence to either the left or the right? Given that both extreme left and right elements have disdained capitalism and soft left as well as soft right elements have embraced it; it seems to me that the power of capitalism is its parasitic and insidious ability to colonize ideologies for its own capital gains. As Zizek illustrates, the same piece of music can be an anthem for entirely antithetical political philosophies. Ultimately, I agree with your point that the "crypto people" want to simply remove the boot from the traditional bourgeoise; so that they themselves may wear it; but in my summation this seems to be more for an individualistic, anti-authoritarian motive more than one that is explicitly politically right or left.
I’m not a right winger by any means but this whole attitude of anything thats right wing is bad automatically is just stupid
Politics are all opinions there is no right or wrong
You reminded me of one of my favorite feminist books, "Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto". It describes advantaged people such as female celebrities really well as "equal opportunity domination" while ignoring poor and working-class women, radicalized and migrant women, queer, trans and disabled women and all including men who are exploited, dominated and oppressed by liberal capitalism.
Why is everybody just waking up to this now? Everybody is being fucked over by the same few who have all the monopolies.
I saw a quote come up once on someone's channel that said you can't buy anything to fix a social justice issue. If you bring that mentality with you then you are somewhat protected from the gimmicks, scams and various x-washings. Was a really helpful way for me to identify the disconnect I was having with people buying a million little gadgets to try and be more environmentally friendly without thinking about more simple solutions which don't involve spending
I'm going to be very honest: i work in the financial sphere, in a institutional bank, and i don't know a lot about crypto or NFT's; mostly because i actually didn't want to know anything about or be personally related. But the feeling that i have is that is very similar to the forex modus operandi: "Come and join us and you''ll be rich with no effort". So, i wasn't at all aware of the fact that celebrities are "recruiting" people, and using "feminism" as a instrument. I actually find it... appalling. It amazes me how people get away with this.
I really have to thank you for making this video and for promoting the TFD. I hate most financial literacy platforms and watching their videos has actually helped me to learn without the usual discomfort so I can vouch for them as well.
All my life, i feel, i consumed content with little to no depth and now watching your videos in entirety at once is difficult for me. I need to take 5's in between, watch and repeat. But I hope to understand you word by word seamlessly without any breaks one day. I feel so excited whenever you reference the books you're talking about, or the author/article. I like reading and watching your educational videos. There's a dopamine release maybe because of how i perceive your channel, and by consuming your videos i think i am doing sth good for myself; but whatever it is, i like learning and i feel grateful for your contribution towards it.
Cada vez que dices “neoliberalismo” un político latinoamericano muere, gracias por tanto ❤️
Ojalá el siguiente fuese AMLO
@@darcykvlogs9522 Y que le siga Nayib Bukele
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no entendí.
@@darcykvlogs9522 Amlo malvado, como se atreve a tener políticas de ayudas sociales en vez de ignorar a los pobres como los buenos presidentes hacen?, Dios como lo odio
i am going through the harshest stage of my life yet and one of the few things that bring me joy are your videos. i love your channel so much !!
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Ex-Crypto employee here: I agree so much. There is some interesting technology going on and you should pay attention. Problem is just: 99.9% of it is scam. It's always the same with bubbles.
You're one of my favourite creators, thanks for your hard work
These video essays feel like food for my brain!
I don't know how to explain this well, but since I discovered your channel and started watching more video essays, I finish a video without that empty feeling that I sometimes get when I watch other content that has a hypnotic effect and doesn't tickle my brain. I've been more interested in researching issues that interest me, for example, digital pollution, and hearing about different perspectives.
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Your content is my absolute FAVORITE. Also, thank you for mentioning TFD. Love their channel too. Everyone you highlighted that they have interviewed I also adore.. love this little community space we share here 🥰🤗
For me participating in such activities seems like a more performative way to show progressiveness. For example, you could just tweet "I support women's rights," or you could by an NFT collection that represents that.
Tweeting support for women's rights will get you into a lot of trouble especially if you're a woman.
@@keyboarddancers7751 What consequences exactly would you get for that sort of tweet? (maybe I'm lacking context, because I'm not using twitter currently, sorry)
Saving this video to show it in class! So many conversations can span from here!
I love the fact that the critique of neoliberalism is getting bigger and more accurate, as well as more numerous in examples on your channel!
I think this video just opened my eyes, completely. For about a year I’ve been trying to put out my artwork in the NFT Space and you don’t have an idea of how much I’ve been troubled to put it out. Still haven’t put it out but now with this I can take a more conscious decision. Thank you so much Alice. 💓
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Another great vid! We're getting closer to a short from Kapital video
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Hi Alice! I found your channel a week ago and have been kind of binge-watching your contents! Thanks for sharing your insightful perspective and analysis.
I like your analysis on these videos. Very even toned voice. Talking about serious topics with smooth voice, it's like listening to a podcast.. ..
Watching this on the same day as Chris Hayes on Crooked Media is talking about attention on the internet: winning! Great commentary, Alice, and I'm enjoying the connections you're making here 💯
How do you keep up & understand all of this 😭😭😭 thank you
Unfortunately despite necessary and modest beginnings, I can’t quite conceive of identity politics now, as anything but capitalist. Ultimately I think it is problematic to reduce politics down to individual characteristics when you have an unclear basis for doing so in the present context. For example racial inequality in America has historically racist roots, America still of course deals with discrimination and racism. But the biggest issues facing many black people in America today are systems which benefit from structural inequality that are capital, not race based. If you rage at a corporation that they are racist, they will bend over backwards to prove to you they are not, they will hire a black ceo, but what they will not do is stop polluting the local environment, exploiting people, exploiting people in low income countries,sucking up resource and market share, they will not back a rise in the minimum wage, pay their fare share of taxes, pay for better training and working conditions for the police with ptsd and a chip on their shoulder who police black communities etc. They will not act in anyway that would benefit the majority of black Americans
Agree! We can go so much harder with our shaming of corporations. Systematic injustice is going to take a lot longer to pull apart as it's rooted in greed. And a man will go to many lengths to shroud his greed. It's tied up in things like academic language, the threat of losing our own little luxuries and now, corporations with hired minorities.
Except that class-related issues do intersect with "identity politics", given how minority groups are more likely to be exploited, and harder too.
Ignoring it would just end-up helping the majority, as always.
For exemple, fighting economical inequalities won't magically erase racism : fighting racism will.
We could do both as the same time, you know.
Opposing "identity politics" and class struggle is useless.
@@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen Yeah hard agree. I'm trans and like... kinda can't ignore "identity politics" because literally my identity and my gender inform how most people and entities interact with me. Trans people are definitely economically disadvantaged and face things like homelessness and job loss at an increased rate, but there's definitely a shitload of social scrutiny that affects us and is unrelated to economics. My very existence in public spaces and especially women's spaces is constantly interrogated. My womanhood is constantly interrogated. If we waved a magic wand and fixed all class issues there would still be a significant amount of transphobia in society that would make it hard for trans people to interact with the world and exist in public. All this to say- fighting for my rights and acceptance in society is not giving into capitalism or delaying the fight for class consciousness. The existence of rainbow capitalism doesn't mean that it's a bad thing to specifically try to lift trans or other marginalized people up in society. People joke about "more female CEOs 👋" all the time, but seriously as a trans person it is quite distressing to see that almost none of us have attained any positions of power in society whatsoever; politically, economically, or culturally. Easy to take that sort of thing for granted and not see the importance, if you already have representation in society on some level.
To be honest, I feel like a lot of us are being influenced by right-wing recapture and redefining of terms like “identity politics” and “woke” resulting in many people turning away from the underlying crux of these concepts at a time when we should not be. The reality is that I as a black woman can’t ignore my identify even as someone with very strong critiques of capitalism because those forces meant to concentrate wealth will disproportionately impact me as American. Even if we make headway in addressing wealth and income inequality, not addressing how specific identities are uniquely impacted by policies will perpetuate existing disparities, even if some things get better for everyone.
Obviously,.class politics in reality
always intersect/ overlap + race/ethnicity. gender, religion..religious faction,,lgtbq, etc., people need to deal
+ all of them at same time. If some groups are "temporarily" left behind or
out. these needless divisions weaken.unity of mass popular movements. Devalued groups
might become less than enthusiastic
+ united, & might be solicited by the
capitalists + their govs.
I have just found out you channel and I love it! Congrats
I think theories on postfeminism, which is essentially the intersection of feminism with neoliberalism, can also explain a lot of these upcomings :) Loved the video!
I love how my favorite youtubers are watch each other!
Great video and analysis! I’ve been thinking a lot about this myself. 🙌💥
Just so so good.
You're outstanding, Alice💜
Oh this looks great. I'll need to set aside time to watch later when I can really pay attention.
Just found your content today love your work !
Can you do a bookshelf tour video please? I wanna know what's on there behind you.
Totally ! Good idea ✨
I love the shout out to The Financial Diet. Such a helpful and informative channel
Hey Alice can you cover life coaches or coach they have a similar theme to empowering women and it's kind of interesting to see girl business owners using empowerment to market their business and try to get rich.
Seems really exploitative IMO and I think people being aware about it would be really helpful
Bravo! This hits the spot so well!
The worst part of this is how badly crypto is crashing right now, literally down about 25% in a week.
More like the best part lol
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, Alice. I have learned a lot from you
Dang I really enjoy your videos keep it up please :3
Keeping it real, as always! thank you!
Capitalism is a special ideology in many aspects and what it does with identiy politics illustrates this very well. I want to introduce you to "Rage against the machine" a Cross-over band of the nineties, that really helped that music-genre to take off. They were highly-anticapilastic in their lyrics, even radical and militant to some extent, but still they became another piece of merchandise being chewed up by capitalism, in this case the music industry. Long before there was an attention-economy, click-bait or even an internet to speak of.
The merchandise that came with them and is still known today is the Che Gueverra t-shirt. Capitalism did not oppose and suppress this anti-capitalistic artists, did not fight their message, but actually did nothing else then expand and profit from the increasing popularity. Even going so far to use capitalistic tools like promotion and marketing in general to further foster their impact and the reach of their message. If this meant to print the portrait of a radical, violent and militiant communist on a t-shirt to promote a band the openly opposes caiptalism, so be it, as long there is profit in it.
This is described as the immunity of capitalism against criticism, as it is not inherently political by itself, it works with social-democratic minded people as well as it works with liberals or conservatives. Whatever promises to turn a profit is just as good as anything else from a capitalistic point of view. In the center of this is profit, *personal* profit to be precise.
Which brings me to the difference of grass-roots or bottom-up against top-down or trickle-down. In the center of top-down is the individual, representing, climbing the ladder and then trying to change the system from the inside. In order to accomplish that, however, it is inevitable to adopt the behavior and perspective of those that are in the system, which is most of the time harmful and can erode even the best of intentions. Even if it does not erode those personal standards it still is not very helpful, you see, the system allows everyone to "win the lottery", to triumph in the system but not all at once. It remains a privilege of a few, a minority, to be the winners, to have power and money. This inequality is necessary, because if all were "winning the lottery" there would be no bllionaires or millionaires, just a bunch of ordinary people that are a bit better off then they are now.
Grass-roots movements are different. Personal profit is not at the center for most participants. It is about a systemic change from the outside, most often the personal advantages remain hazy at best to the individual. Still there is this interest to remove certain inequalities and injustices for each and everyone that suffers from them. That is the actual way of doing things as a human being, cooperating and trying to achive something as group, as a society. Capitalism threatens this inherently human tendency for cooperation by luring the individual with personal profit, wealth and power.
So you see, capitalism adopting and monetizing "movements" of all types, sorts, colours, genders and motivations is its core mechanic, it is the heart of capitalism as a threat to society and the planet.
love to see more women talk about this. as progressive woman myself… thank you!
Thanks for taking the time to create interesting videos.
She could say anything and I would listen. Such a pleasant voice. Fortunately also talking about interesting and relevant topics.
Every video you post is so deeply thoughtful and accurate. Thanks for for sharing such good insight in an age of disinformation.
thank you Alice 🧸
It's hard to say if celebrities are being dishonest about NFTs, or are just utterly ignorant.
Somewhat similar to western feminists and their talking points: their ignorance, rather than malign intentions, might be the source.
As a guy whose training and job was "the very survival of society, aka industrial scale water distribution", talks about NFTs and micro-representation are the most dystopian sh*ts I've seen (aka useless to societal survival)... and I've worked knee-deep in literal raw human sewage. Real, actual micro-aggression with every sniff, lol.
Bonne Continuation Alice, j'aime avant de regarder comme d'habitude ❤️
Hi Alice, would you be interested in making a more general video about tech policy and software politics? It’s a problem that these issues are rarely discussed on the left at all until the latest libertarian technocratic excess breaks into the news cycle, and the lack of such public consciousness is one reason people are so easily mislead.
Such amazing work you do ! I had these thoughts about the crypto world seeming scammy and shallow. But I couldn’t understand it or put it into words , as you just have
I believe that change has to come through the success of real life movements such as Occupy or Extinction rebellion. Taking one Ukrainian person into your house would mean more than a lifetime of commitment to progressive NFT's and 'I stand with' profile pictures.
Alice interesting topic as always!
This video would be great to have an update to
I am short of words. Excellent Video.
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Just got to this video today. Love the big-picture view you provide. First time I heard laissez faire from an actual French person.
As a bespectacled Canadian said in January, the cryptoverse "is Amway, but everywhere you look, people are wearing ugly ass ape cartoons". I just didn't expect the whole thing to be pinkwashed so quickly tho.
I just finished watching Chelsea do an interview on disability and money and I am devastated
This may have been the first time someone talked about crypto without me zoning out in my head
This has been on my mind lately, love your take on it! Another thing that really irks me about people who glamorize crypto, is that there is an absolute silence about the negative impact it has on our environment… how can it be the future, if it’s not climate-friendly?!
I was looking for a comment like this! In my opinion, you can't talk about NFTs without mentioning the environmental impact. A true nightmare.
This channel is a hidden gem!
watching your videos from Perú! Love your insight Alice, as always, brilliant! :)
thank you for the videos! what other channels would you recommend?
How come I am not even a little bit surprised by Katy Perry of all people going crypto sis calling it empowerment lol
... also, i clapped when i saw Gary Vee!
Excellent!
I had a hard time with the audio- I feel like it’s so quiet! It was kind of hard to listen proper so I just watched the video twice lol. Definitely an enjoyable video otherwise I would have just cut my losses haha
Soooooooooooooooo on point.
8:05 I felt that growl as mine!! Haha
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Timestamp 8:21 - That's EXACTLY the noise my cat does 😂 ❤
Any recs of academic papers focusing on these issues?
The fact that so many celebrities and "influencers" promote this is the first sign to be wary lol
for some reason I don't feel attracted to this NFT-Crypto world. Thanks for bringing awareness with your vids, Alice, always informative.
Is not just that poor people don’t know how to handle volatility of crypto. The big investors are in similar margin of risk. The difference is that Katie can afford to lose the next crypto crisis and regular people can’t .
Really nice video👍
Excellente vidéo comme toujours
Make a video about Eurovision, I curious to know what will you say, your videos are always so interesting. Love from Serbia
I would like to recommend you a book called moon and the bonfires by Cesare Pavase, it's pretty special to me
Makes sense 👍
Great take on it. Most people make up the middle of a distribution, by definition most people are not outliers. As such, members of a group are better represented by broader trends of the group, not a focus on outliers. This is even more relevant when comparing inter-group distributions, but even in-group outliers are used to exemplify things that do not really apply to the majority. It's a failure to observe that at the most zoomed out (like a basic [mis]representation of the gender pay gap), a difference can have many explanatory factors, and that zoomed in to focus on outliers does not explain the behaviour of, or trends affecting, the group either. An ability to distract from broader trends by focusing on outliers is also a reason for tokenism, or measures like the pinkwashing, etc. that Alice referred to. In both cases, it is misdirection to support an agenda, and does not aid the group that they claim to support.
Alice's advice to focus on education is spot on. Education is a tide that raises all ships. The other main one is the eradication of poverty, which helps the most disadvantaged and does so without identity politics creating unnecessary division. These are measures that disproportionately assist those most disadvantaged, but they do not mobilise the most people under a banner, attract the most money and attention, etc.
I love your videos greetings from Nicaragua
Hello! Can you recommend books that conceptualize identity politics?
Hi Alice! Citations Needed podcast just put out an ep u might find interesting, called ‘The Last $100 in your bank account economy’ that looks into the scammy background of nfts and how vulnerable are targeted :)
1Dime & Noah sent me 😎
Glad to find you 🥰
8:21 oof!
Being risk-averse is what keeps us alive
Indra Nooyi has achieved professional success as CEO of PepsiCo but there is a distinct Girlboss attitude that people have pointed out.
As a Cis Savarna (Dominant Caste) Indian, it’s hard to reconcile being a POC (which is more applicable for people without Caste Privilege) and a relatively privileged person with Social Capital that keeps us afloat.
the whole girlboss thing is irritating. it can make people super arrogant.
Quote of the Day: “Wait, support small artists that promote the diversity of women and get a financial return on that investment? I mean, where do I sign?”
The fact that a financial instrument is what it took for some people to finally vocalize their support for ostensibly progressive causes, is indicative of their true motives and indifference to the issues.
I listen to your channel not very often. But I should say that problems you disclose are so… unique. I never discussed such in my real life.
Maybe I am too far. Or I look in a different direction.
Would really love to to see Alice x @Thefinancialdiet collab
low key community building: buy food or spend your gov assistance $$ directly with farmers.
TFD does good work, would recommend too.
The popularity of identity politics especially in co opted advertising spaces is completely related to its flexibility within capitalism. It’s capitalisms new favorite tool for creating superficial change without risking any deeper structural change.
This video aged so well! with FTX collapse and the scheme unraveling. I wonder how those celebrities feel like not promoting a fraud
The techniques look scammy because they are scammy. Crypto and NFTs (especially the latter) are outright scams.
Team Percussion!
This thumbnail feels so much like a nightmare (or just an afternoon at twitter)
I love this channel. Its so dumb its funny.