>>479492The Chinese didn't invent surveillance capitalism, "we" did. They copied certain aspects of the west because we had more advanced means of production/technology. They're not intending to stick with this model, to them this is just a temporary socioeconomic pattern to hatch out the current level of productive forces. They're saying as much in their official party documents, in their very particular vernacular.
In the west there is a lot of ruling class entrenchment going on. Really big capital interests digging in their heals to block any kind of political or economic change, that is what's risking ossification of the western political sphere. That's not happening in China, capital interests no matter how big cannot interfere like that. The Chinese communists genuinely do not care about any of this, they're doing the personal data harvesting stuff because they're getting advanced MOP out of it. A means to an end. They're gonna move on from this, to what ever the next tech-frontier will become. And when they're done with that, they'll move on from that as well.
Western ruling classes see the surveillance shite as a means of locking in their permanent rule, they've begun thinking like rulers in feudal societies. They don't even understand that the CPC gained a lot of political trust by improving the living standards of the Chinese population. That's why they were handed that kind of power over the Chinese internet and Chinese society by the Chinese population. It doesn't work the other way around. If the western ruling classes try to take this kind of power by force, without earning political trust by generating rising prosperity for the masses and to borrow a Chinese expression "good governance" , that's going to destabilize what remains of "western civilization".
>Musk's plan is to turn X into the western equivalent of China's WeChat, the almighty everything appI know, but i don't understand his reasoning. The WeChat model worked in material conditions in China for the last 10 years or there about. It's likely that as material conditions change in China that they'll do something else. I don't think that it'll work here, we're not in a monolithic omni-tool moment, what's going to take off in the west will be narrow purpose specialized tools.
>Techno-Capital is becoming more and more powerful with every dayThey rose via great technical skill, but they're now trying to maintain their position by political scheming. Capitalists that chase political power instead of stuff usually are past their zenith.
>normies believe this development is "progress".Nobody thinks that anymore.
>To have an internet connection has become a necessity, if you want to participate in society.Sure but the internet is just "a series of tubes". It doesn't have to pipe big tech silos and surveillance.
Stop trying to blame the internet for the abuse of digital technology by bad people.
It's just the underlying technology it can pipe something else/better.
>Being connected to THE MACHINE is the normal state. we're living in cyber-dystopia, none of this is normal, none of this can be hyper-normalized, it's just too extreme.
The problem isn't machines, it's that we're not controlling it. Don't blame metallurgy because somebody used it to make slave-chains.
>And of course, normies don't question this.Nobody likes it, normies just can't find the escape-hatch.