Will Harvey
Will Harvey
Will Harveyis a software developer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. At the age of 15 he wrote Music Construction Setfor the Apple II, the first commercial sheet music processor for home computers. Music Construction Set was ported to other systems by its publisher, Electronic Arts. He wrote two games for the Apple IIgs: Zany Golfand The Immortal. Harvey founded two consumer virtual world Internet companies: IMVU, an instant messaging company, and There, Inc., an MMOG company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.
Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.
The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
Capital creates space-time .
There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.