sj_zero on Nostr: You guys ever have it where your researching a post reply and along the way your ...
You guys ever have it where your researching a post reply and along the way your browser restarts and you lose the post you were replying to?
Feels bad man.
Anyway, forget it I'm going to end up saying what I was going to say anyway.
Capitalism as we understand it today is an extremely new phenomenon, only about 200 years old. They were traders before that, but not private control and ownership of capital and a lot of the elements that we consider to be related to capitalism today.
Often governments are at odds with merchants because the government gets power by virtue of being the government, but merchants get power by virtue of their own success. Even in the last 50 years or so there's actually been a lot of turnover in who "the rich" is. Many major companies that used to exist have completely disappeared.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/when-big-brands-houdini-1.2801861
By the way, for anyone who has never seen them, Terry O'Reilly's radio shows on advertising are really good. I'm not going to pretend, he's a little bit woke, but not to the extent that it breaks the good work that he does helping to break down how advertising is done and how it has been done in the past. The three shows that I'm aware of are O'Reilly on advertising, the age of persuasion, and under the influence. I definitely recommend them, because he's done a really good job and he's got a lot of useful insights in there.
Feels bad man.
Anyway, forget it I'm going to end up saying what I was going to say anyway.
Capitalism as we understand it today is an extremely new phenomenon, only about 200 years old. They were traders before that, but not private control and ownership of capital and a lot of the elements that we consider to be related to capitalism today.
Often governments are at odds with merchants because the government gets power by virtue of being the government, but merchants get power by virtue of their own success. Even in the last 50 years or so there's actually been a lot of turnover in who "the rich" is. Many major companies that used to exist have completely disappeared.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/when-big-brands-houdini-1.2801861
By the way, for anyone who has never seen them, Terry O'Reilly's radio shows on advertising are really good. I'm not going to pretend, he's a little bit woke, but not to the extent that it breaks the good work that he does helping to break down how advertising is done and how it has been done in the past. The three shows that I'm aware of are O'Reilly on advertising, the age of persuasion, and under the influence. I definitely recommend them, because he's done a really good job and he's got a lot of useful insights in there.