Things Get Made (Patreon)

Ever look at table consider...... why table. Who table? Designer... wood....... Jonathan Ikea, the founder of Ikea. 

Table to make floor higher. Put glass of water and laptop on. Water spill on laptop. 530 pounds to replace top case of 2015 Macbook Pro. 2015 Macbook Pro still has two direct USB ports. 520 pounds converts to $735 USD, perhaps it'd be more cost effective to commit this money to a new laptop. But new Macbooks don't have USB ports anymore. USB ports..... headphone jacks.... gone........

Everything............ gone.........

Who made the table...... the use value of this commodity has been drowned by its exchange value. The human labour that's gone into it's genesis carries no dignity, no agency, it means nothing to me as I purchase it from Jonathan Ikea. I interact with it as a unit of money, a faceless thing I need with no origin or humanity. I use it to study the very philosophy I then employ to try to understand what capitalism has done to tables.

Someone made the table. But the table has no creator. And I as a purchaser am not a user of table. Table is money. Labour is money. All is money. Money replaces all humanity.

I am money. Zach Snyder's Justice League was okay I'll never make a video about it it's not my thing really.