Mike Bartley

Gleaming the Cube

[Adam Butler @GestaltU]

Here’s a hard truth about modern society.
We don’t practice Capitalism anymore.

Rather, for the last 40 years we’ve been conducting a horrific experiment called “neoliberalism”. And we’re near the terminal point in that experiment, a stage I’ve been calling metastatic market fundamentalism.

Capitalism is agents organizing to seek profit by serving the needs and wants of customers. Metastatic market fundamentalism treats citizens as feedstock for corporate profits.

Social media is a canonical example. It’s established fact that Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram etc. algorithms, which are tuned to maximize advertising revenues via limbic activation, and produce political division and derangement, depression, and a host of other problems. But regulating against these algorithms might impair corporate profits, so America doesn’t regulate them. Because the system isn’t designed to protect the rights of Americans to not be exploited by corporations for profit. The system is to designed to protect corporations’ rights to extract maximum profit from citizens.

This is pathological sociopathy at societal scale.

I adore Capitalism. It’s a truly miraculous tool, but shouldn't be used to solve all problems.
Take science: it is unequivocally the optimal way to seek empirical truth and model reality. But science can't address which questions are worth asking, or what priorities are most important to citizens under resource constraints.
Similarly with Capitalism. It is an unparalleled engine for allocating resources and commercializing innovation, but it is a terrible arbiter of human values. When we ask the market to decide what constitutes a good life or a just society, it defaults to the only answer it knows: whatever is most profitable. That is the metastatic cancer.
A functional society knows when to invoke science, or capitalism, or democracy, or the judicial process, or the deliberative bodies that define its public good. The central challenge of governance is to protect the sovereignty of each institutional sphere, ensuring that the logic of the marketplace does not set the curriculum for our schools, write the laws for our courts, or determine the mission of our hospitals.

So here’s where we are: We built the most powerful resource allocation machine in history, then let it allocate us. We became the resource. The product. The feedstock. If you think I’m being dramatic, ask yourself - when did we last make a major policy decision that hurt corporate profits but helped actual humans? That silence you hear? That’s the cancer winning.

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

@JonJLevesque Hope you’re feeling better soon anyways amigo. Back injuries are nasty

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

@JurgenPressed @C_Hannan7 from @TheAnfieldWrap isn’t behind this is he? 😂

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

@cassymfreeman @Nintex Great work matey! 🤜🏻🤛🏻

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

#YNWA

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

@JonJLevesque @SPS_London Hells yeah!

[Bram Cohen🌱 @bramcohen]

British parliament has to keep voting vote on May's plan until they approve it, because the people have spoken via a referendum and having a new referendum would be repeating a vote until it gets a predetermined outcome and that would be madness.

[⛏Crypto Chris Walken🥃 @cryptochrisw]

This is how the human race will be destroyed

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

@JonJLevesque Great times @JonJLevesque Look forward to the next one Sir 👍🏻

[Jacinda Ardern @jacindaardern]

What has happened in Christchurch is an extraordinary act of unprecedented violence. It has no place in New Zealand. Many of those affected will be members of our migrant communities – New Zealand is their home – they are us.

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

@cassymfreeman @kmorry19 @marksipsma Sure am muchachas🤜🏻🤛🏻

[𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗽𝗵 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀-𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 @RandyAtWork]

Speakers wanted!
I am looking to do a mix of community sessions this year, in Cambridge East Anglia, as part of my involvement in the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and #UKCT. Topics include #Office365 (inc #SharePoint etc), Power Platform and #Power…https://t.co/dPnjracLLG

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

@NintexEuan Great news Euan!

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

@naval Thanks for your insights @naval

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

@Mike_Akalu Have a good one Gunnersaurus!

[𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗽𝗵 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀-𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 @RandyAtWork]

Still time to sign up.
Great sessions. 🎤
Free Pizza. 🍕
#SharePint. 🍻

[𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗽𝗵 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀-𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 @RandyAtWork]

FREE #Microsoft technology event with FREE Pizza on Tuesday 11 September in #Cambridge! Covering #MicrosoftGraph and #PowerBI.

#SharePoint #Delve #SUGUK #Weather #SPFx #BCSEvent
@uk_communities @bcsisg @BCSMemberGroups
https://t.co/DlBzep3G9C

[UK Tech Communities @uk_communities]

Register Now: Cambridge - 2018-09-11 - UKCT / SUGUK (East Anglia - Cambridge) - https://t.co/kIZ7L2OCJW

[Mike Bartley @MikeyB1976]

The most golden of opportunities. Come on England #itscominghome #ThreeLionsOnAShirt 🙏🏻