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Tyrants have always carefully contrived to weaken their subjects and to take from them all virtue. They have never feared anything so much as arms and valor.
— Étienne de La Boétie. Discourse on Voluntary Servitude.
Capitalism chains culture to profit, binds freedom to utility, and weighs the human spirit on the scales of the market. Yet we shall not yield. Every voice of valor that resists commodification shall now rise from the margins, demanding its right to exist
— and this is our story.
Rise Armed
Introduction
Capitalism has reigned as a tyrant.
It has weakened and silenced the rebellious spirit.
It has reduced and bent every act to the economy.
But now—
We shall blind the raging Plutus.
We shall break the tyranny of wealth.
We shall redesign capitalism.
Yet... how did this monotheistic capitalism come to be?
Why did the economy take the throne of value?
Why was all else driven to the margins?
Why did it become a machinery of violence?
Aristophanes prophesied its arrival:
in the Plutus myth.
The Myth of
Capitalism
The Plutus myth written by Aristophanes
Mission
Plutian Eye
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The Contemporary Order
Awakened Plutus
— and thereby, the marginalized by Capitalism…
They may conduct research that shakes the very century.
They may organise movements that resolve the social crisis.
They may create art that transforms the souls of the people.
Yet still—within capitalism—none of this shall yield its reward, unless it is descends into the form of a commodity.
Thus, capitalism makes any pursuit serve only economic value: for those rejecting its network for non-economic pursuits are left marginalized, in hardship, as once were the Greek gods. And then most fell into the voluntary servitude of Plutus.
Such is the force of Plutian Eye, and it has shaped the machinery of monotheistic capitalism. The gravity has absorbed countless beings into itself, and silenced them — as if it were Plutus Devouring His Son.
Thus we proclaim our Mission:
Blind Plutus
Monotheistic
Capitalism
What’s at Issue
How is that violent capitalism reproduced? That is Reductionism to Economic Value — namely, to Commodity.
“ Where lies the arms that shall Blind Plutus ”
Thus, the gravity of the Plutian Eye is the gravity of Commodification.
The alternative to the Commodity is the very arms that Blind Plutus.
In one word, Decommodification is Liberation from Plutus’ tyranny.
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Art, research, and even social contribution must be commodified in order to yield profit. For otherwise, those values would weaken — and, in the end, be extinguished. There is no alternative. Thus, the economy becomes the throne of value in Monotheistic Capitalism
that is the question.
Member
Haruto Nakazawa
Haru Toyama
Shuzo Narita
Shunta Oka
In 2020, as a sophomore in high school, he founded Unpacked, Inc. as Executive Vice President, which provides a third place for non-cognitive skills education with a focus on active learning. Having experienced firsthand the challenges of the industry structure in modern education, he co-founded Kafka Inc. He was appointed as Representative Director. In the past, he has also served as a business plan advisor for Yahoo.
Started a programming career simultaneously with entering a professional training college. Gained experience as a software engineer through internships and contract work. Spoke at Django Congress 2021, among other activities. At Turingum Inc., worked as a backend developer for Web3 games, gaining experience in developing Dapps. In March 2023, co-founded Kafka and assumed the position of CTO.
Joined CrowdWorks as a founding intern in 2012 and joined as an Executive Officer in December 2012; became Director and COO in August 2014; listed on TSE Mothers in December 2014; served as Director and Vice President COO from April 2015 to September 2020; retired as Director of CrowdWorks in December 2022. He retired from the Board of Directors of Crowdworks in December 2022, and co-founded Kafka in April 2022, becoming a Director.
2014: Engaged in UIUX design for mobile apps at Yahoo! As a manager of the design team, he was involved in new business new app development and e-commerce app renovation in 2016. 2016: Joined a start-up blockchain fintech business and became a UIUX designer Appointed and worked on new service design and project management.2019: Inc. Worked with the Design Program Manager of the Design Department at Crowdworks He became the group's Design Manager and was involved in the launch of CrowdLinks.
