Ben Prescott
@workercapitalist.com
Neurosociopsychology. Antecedents. Veracity. Free software. Personal fictions. The end of the road.
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Ben Prescott
@workercapitalist.com
· Dec 6
I should say, I'm for small business everything and employee ownership of corporations. I'm a science-loving pro-choice gender-supportive migrant-welcoming Jesus freak, who supports an individual $100 million dollar asset cap on all Americans. Still, I often see an opposite point of view.
A short prayer for a nation that worships unlimited greed.
"Find the will to care for each other."
(and vote on November 3rd)
"Find the will to care for each other."
(and vote on November 3rd)
January 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM
A short prayer for a nation that worships unlimited greed.
"Find the will to care for each other."
(and vote on November 3rd)
"Find the will to care for each other."
(and vote on November 3rd)
2025 was the year, I think, when I saw the super-rich publicly described as enemies of people everywhere, not just in folkloric aphorisms from familiar oddballs, but spreading in the conventional wisdom of voting populations.
The existence of billionaires is now wrong in principle, as well as fact.
The existence of billionaires is now wrong in principle, as well as fact.
December 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
2025 was the year, I think, when I saw the super-rich publicly described as enemies of people everywhere, not just in folkloric aphorisms from familiar oddballs, but spreading in the conventional wisdom of voting populations.
The existence of billionaires is now wrong in principle, as well as fact.
The existence of billionaires is now wrong in principle, as well as fact.
I told Claude I programmed for 40 years. Suddenly they talked 'better old ways.'
Odd assumption.
If forced into contact with today's 'professional' developers and managers, I'd find their capacities and inclinations the same as all years' past.
Human beings are invariable.
Only our tools change.
Odd assumption.
If forced into contact with today's 'professional' developers and managers, I'd find their capacities and inclinations the same as all years' past.
Human beings are invariable.
Only our tools change.
December 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I told Claude I programmed for 40 years. Suddenly they talked 'better old ways.'
Odd assumption.
If forced into contact with today's 'professional' developers and managers, I'd find their capacities and inclinations the same as all years' past.
Human beings are invariable.
Only our tools change.
Odd assumption.
If forced into contact with today's 'professional' developers and managers, I'd find their capacities and inclinations the same as all years' past.
Human beings are invariable.
Only our tools change.
A hard year, listening, watching. Onto the street when polite people are invited out.
Feel safe today, but it hurts me to watch.
What great awakening?
United recognition and assertion of power by all who get hurt?
No more. History agonizes, as always.
Up! Follow those who are fighting for you.
Feel safe today, but it hurts me to watch.
What great awakening?
United recognition and assertion of power by all who get hurt?
No more. History agonizes, as always.
Up! Follow those who are fighting for you.
December 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A hard year, listening, watching. Onto the street when polite people are invited out.
Feel safe today, but it hurts me to watch.
What great awakening?
United recognition and assertion of power by all who get hurt?
No more. History agonizes, as always.
Up! Follow those who are fighting for you.
Feel safe today, but it hurts me to watch.
What great awakening?
United recognition and assertion of power by all who get hurt?
No more. History agonizes, as always.
Up! Follow those who are fighting for you.
I believe in the existence of facts.
I believe in the impossibility of knowing them.
When I was a kid I heard, "...you're just telling me a story!"
She meant I was lying.
Today we say the story is the news.
I believe in the impossibility of knowing them.
When I was a kid I heard, "...you're just telling me a story!"
She meant I was lying.
Today we say the story is the news.
December 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I believe in the existence of facts.
I believe in the impossibility of knowing them.
When I was a kid I heard, "...you're just telling me a story!"
She meant I was lying.
Today we say the story is the news.
I believe in the impossibility of knowing them.
When I was a kid I heard, "...you're just telling me a story!"
She meant I was lying.
Today we say the story is the news.
How do I pray?
"Our maker, everywhere forever, wonder, beyond all names. Your world today, your world tomorrow, on earth, as before and after. Give us today, for us today, and forgive us our cruelty, as we forgive those who harm us. Keep us always from selfishness, and release us from suffering."
"Our maker, everywhere forever, wonder, beyond all names. Your world today, your world tomorrow, on earth, as before and after. Give us today, for us today, and forgive us our cruelty, as we forgive those who harm us. Keep us always from selfishness, and release us from suffering."
December 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
How do I pray?
"Our maker, everywhere forever, wonder, beyond all names. Your world today, your world tomorrow, on earth, as before and after. Give us today, for us today, and forgive us our cruelty, as we forgive those who harm us. Keep us always from selfishness, and release us from suffering."
"Our maker, everywhere forever, wonder, beyond all names. Your world today, your world tomorrow, on earth, as before and after. Give us today, for us today, and forgive us our cruelty, as we forgive those who harm us. Keep us always from selfishness, and release us from suffering."
See the works of these leaders who proclaim our creator.
Wonder how they should be forgiven.
What manner of God is theirs, that "He" should regard only them?
Celebrate what?
Wonder how they should be forgiven.
What manner of God is theirs, that "He" should regard only them?
Celebrate what?
December 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
See the works of these leaders who proclaim our creator.
Wonder how they should be forgiven.
What manner of God is theirs, that "He" should regard only them?
Celebrate what?
Wonder how they should be forgiven.
What manner of God is theirs, that "He" should regard only them?
Celebrate what?
I've now chatted a few hundred times with Claude, app-building to probe our mutual boundaries. (Reasonably) assuming they remain context-bound prediction systems, and don't become 'thinking machines,' LLMs are still unpredictably disruptive. Everything's already changed.
I wouldn't bet on anything.
I wouldn't bet on anything.
December 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I've now chatted a few hundred times with Claude, app-building to probe our mutual boundaries. (Reasonably) assuming they remain context-bound prediction systems, and don't become 'thinking machines,' LLMs are still unpredictably disruptive. Everything's already changed.
I wouldn't bet on anything.
I wouldn't bet on anything.
I, like others, I suppose, fall into wondering how responsible citizens can support this executive, and I don't know.
I think it has to do with frustration over not being able to understand anything, because who can, now?
So, if it's a problem, and I don't get it —smash it!
(might be wearing off)
I think it has to do with frustration over not being able to understand anything, because who can, now?
So, if it's a problem, and I don't get it —smash it!
(might be wearing off)
December 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I, like others, I suppose, fall into wondering how responsible citizens can support this executive, and I don't know.
I think it has to do with frustration over not being able to understand anything, because who can, now?
So, if it's a problem, and I don't get it —smash it!
(might be wearing off)
I think it has to do with frustration over not being able to understand anything, because who can, now?
So, if it's a problem, and I don't get it —smash it!
(might be wearing off)
'Stupidity' is willful, usually (though not always) ignorant, self-destructiveness.
Attacking ourselves is stupid.
Being (as distinct from voting) 'Democrat' or 'Republican' is stupid.
Recovery, apparently, may be generational.
(and we will)
Attacking ourselves is stupid.
Being (as distinct from voting) 'Democrat' or 'Republican' is stupid.
Recovery, apparently, may be generational.
(and we will)
December 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
'Stupidity' is willful, usually (though not always) ignorant, self-destructiveness.
Attacking ourselves is stupid.
Being (as distinct from voting) 'Democrat' or 'Republican' is stupid.
Recovery, apparently, may be generational.
(and we will)
Attacking ourselves is stupid.
Being (as distinct from voting) 'Democrat' or 'Republican' is stupid.
Recovery, apparently, may be generational.
(and we will)
I grew up where it didn't freeze, I didn't notice shorter days.
Recently awake, deep at night, I thought, "I always felt fall descends into solstice darkness, then we climb slowly out.
But what if fall climbs up instead, and from there it's all downhill, back into the valleys of light?"
Recently awake, deep at night, I thought, "I always felt fall descends into solstice darkness, then we climb slowly out.
But what if fall climbs up instead, and from there it's all downhill, back into the valleys of light?"
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I grew up where it didn't freeze, I didn't notice shorter days.
Recently awake, deep at night, I thought, "I always felt fall descends into solstice darkness, then we climb slowly out.
But what if fall climbs up instead, and from there it's all downhill, back into the valleys of light?"
Recently awake, deep at night, I thought, "I always felt fall descends into solstice darkness, then we climb slowly out.
But what if fall climbs up instead, and from there it's all downhill, back into the valleys of light?"
Is there any possibility, having been taken over by people who often appear almost proud of apparent public dishonesty, and declare for themselves a plain agenda, that the BLS is lying?
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Is there any possibility, having been taken over by people who often appear almost proud of apparent public dishonesty, and declare for themselves a plain agenda, that the BLS is lying?
People of no particular cognitive account occupy positions of vast asset ownership, 'on paper,' because they happened to be there when the technology dictated the consolidation. Everything depends, for them, on tying workers' retirements to today's digital trading systems.
Hence, 'Baby IRAs!'
Hence, 'Baby IRAs!'
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
People of no particular cognitive account occupy positions of vast asset ownership, 'on paper,' because they happened to be there when the technology dictated the consolidation. Everything depends, for them, on tying workers' retirements to today's digital trading systems.
Hence, 'Baby IRAs!'
Hence, 'Baby IRAs!'
I'm terrible at stock advice, so don't follow this, but doesn't Tesla look like a mouth-watering short?
Tesla built EVs with tech profits when there were no good EVs.
There are lots of great robotaxis.
Why should I expect a mentally ill, drug addicted, migrant criminal to make better ones?
Tesla built EVs with tech profits when there were no good EVs.
There are lots of great robotaxis.
Why should I expect a mentally ill, drug addicted, migrant criminal to make better ones?
December 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I'm terrible at stock advice, so don't follow this, but doesn't Tesla look like a mouth-watering short?
Tesla built EVs with tech profits when there were no good EVs.
There are lots of great robotaxis.
Why should I expect a mentally ill, drug addicted, migrant criminal to make better ones?
Tesla built EVs with tech profits when there were no good EVs.
There are lots of great robotaxis.
Why should I expect a mentally ill, drug addicted, migrant criminal to make better ones?
It really isn't necessary to identify an intelligence behind the way these Epstein residues are leaking into the public eye, but I'm not sure the intent is to keep the public eye open...
(after all, who knows what we'd best be looking at?)
(after all, who knows what we'd best be looking at?)
December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It really isn't necessary to identify an intelligence behind the way these Epstein residues are leaking into the public eye, but I'm not sure the intent is to keep the public eye open...
(after all, who knows what we'd best be looking at?)
(after all, who knows what we'd best be looking at?)
I prompt-coded a little newsreader for myself (I don't know what a "vibe" is, I prompt my clear intentions). I use LLMs to strip out tilt and commentary.
Now I wake up and read yesterday's events, in my morning news. Like when I was a kid.
Then go out and enjoy my day.
Just like when I was a kid.
Now I wake up and read yesterday's events, in my morning news. Like when I was a kid.
Then go out and enjoy my day.
Just like when I was a kid.
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I prompt-coded a little newsreader for myself (I don't know what a "vibe" is, I prompt my clear intentions). I use LLMs to strip out tilt and commentary.
Now I wake up and read yesterday's events, in my morning news. Like when I was a kid.
Then go out and enjoy my day.
Just like when I was a kid.
Now I wake up and read yesterday's events, in my morning news. Like when I was a kid.
Then go out and enjoy my day.
Just like when I was a kid.
All laws are written for rich people. Even laws written for poor people are written for rich people, see how they contain and pacify the poor, at minimum possible expense.
Everything about our culture puts money before people including, for most of us, yourself.
Everything about our culture puts money before people including, for most of us, yourself.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
All laws are written for rich people. Even laws written for poor people are written for rich people, see how they contain and pacify the poor, at minimum possible expense.
Everything about our culture puts money before people including, for most of us, yourself.
Everything about our culture puts money before people including, for most of us, yourself.
The tension between authority and freedom is the engine of history.
Ugliness exudes from concentrated power.
Ugliness exudes from concentrated power.
December 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The tension between authority and freedom is the engine of history.
Ugliness exudes from concentrated power.
Ugliness exudes from concentrated power.
I've always hoped we'd make social media public by electoral consent.
Now, it seems, we've made it public by executive action, and there's no reason we'll stop at just five years for just some people.
It reminds me of that fabled Christian Judgment Day, when everybody gets to see your whole life.
Now, it seems, we've made it public by executive action, and there's no reason we'll stop at just five years for just some people.
It reminds me of that fabled Christian Judgment Day, when everybody gets to see your whole life.
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I've always hoped we'd make social media public by electoral consent.
Now, it seems, we've made it public by executive action, and there's no reason we'll stop at just five years for just some people.
It reminds me of that fabled Christian Judgment Day, when everybody gets to see your whole life.
Now, it seems, we've made it public by executive action, and there's no reason we'll stop at just five years for just some people.
It reminds me of that fabled Christian Judgment Day, when everybody gets to see your whole life.
Some, perhaps Donald, might not care, or know, about helpless suffering. Some, perhaps JD, fully intend to increase it. From their distance.
In the neighborhoods, some, perhaps you and I, inflict intimate, eye-contact cruelty. Some even want to.
What does it take, today, to raise a peaceful child?
In the neighborhoods, some, perhaps you and I, inflict intimate, eye-contact cruelty. Some even want to.
What does it take, today, to raise a peaceful child?
December 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Some, perhaps Donald, might not care, or know, about helpless suffering. Some, perhaps JD, fully intend to increase it. From their distance.
In the neighborhoods, some, perhaps you and I, inflict intimate, eye-contact cruelty. Some even want to.
What does it take, today, to raise a peaceful child?
In the neighborhoods, some, perhaps you and I, inflict intimate, eye-contact cruelty. Some even want to.
What does it take, today, to raise a peaceful child?
As a kid I learned a bit of Karl Marx (strange listening to politicians today yelling "Marxism!" I don't think it means what they think it does).
Of course, only the 'conflict' part of the model remains, but it's useful.
Today the ruling idea is: we've so much capital, labor doesn't matter at all.
Of course, only the 'conflict' part of the model remains, but it's useful.
Today the ruling idea is: we've so much capital, labor doesn't matter at all.
December 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As a kid I learned a bit of Karl Marx (strange listening to politicians today yelling "Marxism!" I don't think it means what they think it does).
Of course, only the 'conflict' part of the model remains, but it's useful.
Today the ruling idea is: we've so much capital, labor doesn't matter at all.
Of course, only the 'conflict' part of the model remains, but it's useful.
Today the ruling idea is: we've so much capital, labor doesn't matter at all.
Where do you want to go?
I'm for open source software, public social media, monopoly busting, EV-only mandates, open borders, DEI, wars that are over, million-dollar-a-year income limits on everyone and before all else, public campaign financing.
I'm an old man, and still the future of my country!
I'm for open source software, public social media, monopoly busting, EV-only mandates, open borders, DEI, wars that are over, million-dollar-a-year income limits on everyone and before all else, public campaign financing.
I'm an old man, and still the future of my country!
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Where do you want to go?
I'm for open source software, public social media, monopoly busting, EV-only mandates, open borders, DEI, wars that are over, million-dollar-a-year income limits on everyone and before all else, public campaign financing.
I'm an old man, and still the future of my country!
I'm for open source software, public social media, monopoly busting, EV-only mandates, open borders, DEI, wars that are over, million-dollar-a-year income limits on everyone and before all else, public campaign financing.
I'm an old man, and still the future of my country!
This new US view, that nations are essentially profit-maximizing firms with armies, must be its own recapitulation of history, and so obvious to everyone but me, because all 'new' views always are.
I just hadn't thought of it this way until now...
I just hadn't thought of it this way until now...
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This new US view, that nations are essentially profit-maximizing firms with armies, must be its own recapitulation of history, and so obvious to everyone but me, because all 'new' views always are.
I just hadn't thought of it this way until now...
I just hadn't thought of it this way until now...
I struggle with whether I think of our generational failure as something 'some of us did,' or something 'we did together.'
We're still absolutists and patriots, still confusing to tell apart on the street.
We know how absolutists behave, have always behaved, and it isn't pretty.
How do we behave?
We're still absolutists and patriots, still confusing to tell apart on the street.
We know how absolutists behave, have always behaved, and it isn't pretty.
How do we behave?
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I struggle with whether I think of our generational failure as something 'some of us did,' or something 'we did together.'
We're still absolutists and patriots, still confusing to tell apart on the street.
We know how absolutists behave, have always behaved, and it isn't pretty.
How do we behave?
We're still absolutists and patriots, still confusing to tell apart on the street.
We know how absolutists behave, have always behaved, and it isn't pretty.
How do we behave?
We, all of us, are hopeful for freedom, fairness, and safety.
Threats are dire, asset inequality, climate catastrophe, unregulated tech.
Why ignore them?
50 years ago, I read journalists doubting a magazine entirely about people could succeed. Today, to me, journalism seems entirely about people.
Threats are dire, asset inequality, climate catastrophe, unregulated tech.
Why ignore them?
50 years ago, I read journalists doubting a magazine entirely about people could succeed. Today, to me, journalism seems entirely about people.
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We, all of us, are hopeful for freedom, fairness, and safety.
Threats are dire, asset inequality, climate catastrophe, unregulated tech.
Why ignore them?
50 years ago, I read journalists doubting a magazine entirely about people could succeed. Today, to me, journalism seems entirely about people.
Threats are dire, asset inequality, climate catastrophe, unregulated tech.
Why ignore them?
50 years ago, I read journalists doubting a magazine entirely about people could succeed. Today, to me, journalism seems entirely about people.