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Thomas Piketty's Failed Revolution

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Piketty's works themselves are an example of something Mark Fisher already realized in 2009: All "poignant" critique of what is seen as capitalism will become incorporated into the system, make their writer famous and rich and will prevent any actual reform.

I knew he was completely cooked when he called to vote for Macron instead of Le Pen(I understand the far right criticism as applied to Le Pen, but if you are the "wealth inequality bad, more social policy good" guy and you call to vote for the guy with the clearly worse social policy, your project is cooked).

I'm also a "wealth inequality bad, more social policy good" guy and there's no way I would vote for Le Pen in a two way race.

Nobody said you have to vote Le Pen, but you don't have to tell people to vote for Macron.

Only idiots, naïves and bullshitters would think that Le Pen has a better social policy.

For reference: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacobus_Belsen_-_D...

Enjoy your retirement at 64, given to you by a president whose main voting bloc consists of people who enjoyed the Mitterand reform of retirement at 60. Hopefully stupid 1930s cartoons make the last 2 years bearable.

Calling 'stupid' cartoons that very accurately describe Hitler's doublespeak only proves further your dishonesty. Le Pen would have done no better, or even worse, while puffing up the immigrant/woke menace to distract the attention away from the treason of her promises. I am not imagining things: all far-right wannabee autocrats have done the same trick, all the time, everywhere.

As I said, have fun those last 2-4 years, hopefully your back and joints aren't too cranky(as you are on HN it probably won't be so bad, might suck for manual workers though). I applaud your self-sacrifice to protect France from fascism, maybe you will get a plaque in the Panthéon in the near future?

Whereas if I had voted Le Pen or abstained, I would have gotten what? A better deal?

Maybe you are just a sucker.

I don't know. Realizing that investing makes you much more money in today's world, than working for a living, is revolutionary at individual level.

How is it revolutionary? It means that people will provide less labor than optimal and the division of labor won't advance as much as it could.

Not owning or owning a place for your own is revolutionary.

Todays America. Some other countries tax more agressively to keep people working.

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