The growing popularity of the “Bowie” bond — a security backed by royalties — may sound strange, but it’s nothing new. In treating songs like annuities, capitalists prove once again that nothing is too sacred, or silly, to be commodified.

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[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The more I understand economics and the longer I live with it, the more capitalism seems like a death cult.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Extract all resources, concentrate all power, do war, collapse, repeat.

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We were doing that well before capitalism was a thing. We learn from history that we don't learn from history...

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Some of the tech oligarchs are explicitly stating they want to do a paperclip machine.