Jaime Roberts
Mar 13, 2022

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My main disagreement with JP is around capitalism. Here he has a very conservative agenda.

Capitalism structures society away from use and exchange value, and instead centers it around surplus-value. Capitalism doesn’t make money (value) by selling things (exchange-value) or by consuming things (use-value). Rather it makes money by over-production of surplus-value. This comes in the form of debt, real estate-value, stock-value, and intellectual property-value.

This creates a whole host of problems including ‘unequal development’ among countries; rich first world countries who control surplus-value, and poor third world countries that produce but are not paid fairly for their production. This creates a new form of colonialism based on capitalism.

JP is very uncritical of this organization in society, and offers no alternatives. This is what makes him a conservative in my opinion, and progressives rightly call him out on this.

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Jaime Roberts
Jaime Roberts

Written by Jaime Roberts

Architect writing about environmental design in an age of climate change.

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