Corruption System

a market verging on corruption system is not a market

You should stop endorsing the economic system, why are you all saying it is OK? It is a lot of persons - a "market" - and this damn "market," if you ask me, is up to no damn good at all.

An artificial system of endorsements is not a market system. Those two are not the same thing. The company hosting the writing and publishing newsletter service, the email-linked "Substack" Company, unthinkingly forces that marketing or rather endorsement system I should say — onto all of us. They assume everybody should want it. They have no idea they are doing it, but that makes it all the more intrusive.

Use of this method acts automatically to create "spread the word" advertising messages in a way that seems typical for the current market. These messages I am prompted to create are then used to promote that members of the writer system to others. Peer-to-peer. The gimmick I looked at creates “quotes” that are then distributed on a subsystem. (I just used it for Andrew Sullivan; it goes to “notes”) Elsewhere on the network. I think that this was intended for internal use by other members of the newsletter system run by "Substack" Company. I do not see why this makes any kind of logic at all. They think this is the right way to run their business. They do not let me do my own work but rather they try to take it over. Sorry, in the first place I didn’t know I was running a business.

Why must they push this crap on me? I have no wish to disprove what I believe. I believe that one does not create a market out of intellectual materials or ideas. These things, such as ideas or writings, or the opinion or thoughts that writing springs from, do not fit with a marketing procedure. There is no market for writing. You have a link for apiece? OK, type in the address and you can hit “enter” and then you read it, and you don’t sell it on down the line to the next person. Although, I suppose there used to be used bookstores for that. There is no market for it and yet this “Substack” Company tries to force me to market myself and in one universal way. No choice: it has to be the way the company desires I should. Who are these people? They are allowing me to write for others on the Internet. They use a different system than “Medium.” The problem is, they have the same business biases. This is so clear. It is so clear they are not different.

And they want me to do these things in this way because that is how they think a business would be run. They do not understand that this is not a business. No, that would be beyond them. So, as for what I am doing by being as scholar-intellectual and public writer, I am not necessarily following a particular economic or market system.

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It needs to be separated from the economic system.

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Substack (and presumably others) forces any client into hyper-capitalism, which is at a time in world history where it means a place, where having a thousand subscribing clients at, Say 2 dollars a month means now the writer earns or gets, receives or makes or takes or grabs his two grand every subscription period (currently by the month). Thereby we are making a living. This period of capitalism will pass like they all did. Various periods of capitalism done passed already. So, this will last until the next phase of capitalistic economic human social relations. Until that happens, there are going to be a lot of market methods like this. These are ways for independent writers and many other sorts of workers to earn an income, through self-directed activities.

In theory, it is okay. Many are the companies that fit in here; they are all over the place. I wonder if they are half of the economy. At some point they may be. This is big already --- you see it and you can feel it. It always feels the same. It is always the same sort of behavior syndrome. Get known. Make friends. Get money. Be an “influencer.” Remember that one? It is really stupid in my opinion.

The problem is that it is a bullshit economic system. If you think this is what "market" is you should not assume that?

That is not it ~ why?

Because: “The Market” is an organic process engaged in by the entire community — not just the silicon elite. It engages people in their real lives. That is different from an entitlement system, where market shares are gained not by actual humans but by on-line personas. That is the road to serfdom maybe but not an economy.