So much rich food for thought here, Octopus, even if I didn’t always agree with you. One could look at symbolic vs non-symbolic capitalism differently; i.e., the physical stuff is crucial to maintaining the equally important non-physical labour, which gives meaning and direction to it all. Otherwise we’re ants, right? Not to disparage ants, which are wondrous.
So much rich food for thought here, Octopus, even if I didn’t always agree with you. One could look at symbolic vs non-symbolic capitalism differently; i.e., the physical stuff is crucial to maintaining the equally important non-physical labour, which gives meaning and direction to it all. Otherwise we’re ants, right? Not to disparage ants, which are wondrous.
I am not sure I even agree 100% with my own argument, but it was an interesting exercise to explore the ideas!