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
Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.
Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.
Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.
Capital creates space-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.
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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.
Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
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.
Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital , can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.