Since it is a law of life, what can we say, the value of this principle is the fundamental truth. Introduction – Show how this applies in practice. This happened immediately after the parable of the talents.2 Jesus anointed a law of accumulation. It was a kind of “survival of the fittest” law. He saw it as a law that covered the whole of life. This system produces planetary geography as a commodity, as a pure financial asset, using and abusing people and places as strategies for capital accumulation. The process affects everyone, no matter where; Even if he is not involved, even if he leaves people and places, he becomes entangled. Cities, like the factories of the Marx era, become whirlpools to absorb all that the planet offers: its capital and power, its culture and its people – its expendable labor. It is this aspiration of people and goods, capital and information, that animates the urban machinery of accumulation that makes it so dynamic and destabilizing. Because it`s a system that secretes a residue, chews people when it`s necessary and spits them out when they`re not.
The law of accumulation can apply to all areas of life, not just your business. If there is neglect in your personal, spiritual or professional growth, you can be sure that decline in these areas will certainly follow. This is the negative side of the law of accumulation at work. Can you imagine the little demons (faulty tracking systems, poor customer service, poor quality products, etc.) you were taking care of in your store? If you continue to neglect them, you may no longer have a business, just as our poor homeowner lost his home in the figure above. If someone asked me what my favorite part of Marx`s Capital is, I would answer chapter 25 on “The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation.” No one ever asked me; But I suspect I wouldn`t be alone with this cutting-edge performance, the beginning of Volume One`s climate unfolding. For here, these “laws of motion” that Marx had tried to expose throughout Capital really work before the eyes of the reader in all their disturbing fluidity. Until now, Marx had tried to reconstruct the complicated “internal mechanisms” of capitalist society. In chapter 25, he is ready to analyze these internal mechanisms as a huge, well-oiled whirlwind machine. Another way to look at this principle, when viewed in a negative context, can be seen as what happens when you neglect the little things that don`t bring positive results to your business. The principle of momentum is one of the great secrets of success. This principle states that it takes a lot of energy to overcome initial inertia and resistance to financial accumulation and get started.
But once launched, it takes much less energy to keep moving. Achieving financial independence requires a huge number of small efforts on your part. To begin the process of accumulation, you need to be disciplined and persistent. You have to stick to it for a very, very long time. At first, you will see very little change or difference, but gradually, your efforts will begin to bear fruit. You will start to be ahead of your colleagues. Your finances will improve and your debts will disappear. Your bank account will grow and your whole life will improve. Every great financial achievement is an accumulation of hundreds of small efforts and sacrifices that no one ever sees or appreciates. The progress of urban accumulation reduces the relative size of the variable share of capital, even if, as in industry, it cannot reduce it completely.
After all, capital needs its Minion service staff consisting of bus boys and guarantors, waiters and bartenders, cleaners and security guards, nannies and cooks, superintendents and bouncers. But a push-pull effect prevailed, a dialectic of attraction and dispossession, an aspiration for relative overpopulation in the city with spitting, banishment from the center. Stagnant old poor populations as well as floating and latent reserve armies are now embracing somewhere on the periphery, where rents are lower and life is cheaper. The first effect of the law of accumulation states: “When your savings accumulate, you develop a dynamic that allows you to reach your financial goals faster. It`s hard to start a financial accumulation program, but once you start, you find it easier and easier to stick to it. Over time, due to this neglect, you realize that the frame and foundation of your home are not what they used to be. Now your house is on the verge of collapse or there`s nothing you can do about it. Consider the methodological system of the United States Marine Corps.
Marines understand what can happen when negligence is within them. That`s why they train, learn, mentor and grow regularly. Or, in other words, the constant accumulation of training, knowledge and accountability. My friend, there is a law of accumulation by which sin and goodness increase in its own way. There is something that makes good and evil worse. Accumulation for accumulation, production for production`s sake. Of course, after 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, another reservoir of latent labor flooded the capitalist market. A newly proletarianized workforce initiated a primitive accumulation of capital, transforming former employees of the Eastern European state into self-employed workers capable of asserting themselves in the flexible European labor market. The precipitous turn of Western-style neoliberalism in the Eastern bloc has opened up a whole host of new market niches, as well as a latent labour pool – both at home, in some newly founded nation-states and in the European Economic Area (EEA). Almost overnight, a dictatorial personality ideology turned into a free-market ideological dictatorship with the associated rights of consumerist man. Marx knew in the 1860s that the general “absolute” law of capitalist accumulation “can be modified in its functioning by many circumstances.” But in any case, he says, “it follows that as capital accumulates, the worker`s situation, whether high or low, must deteriorate.” In the current “neoliberal” context, the economy thrives thanks to underemployed and overemployed workers, temporary workers and gig economy workers, workers without contracts: from Uber to Deliveroo, from Handy to Hermès, from Amazon to assistant professors, work is becoming increasingly precarious and irregular; And employee benefits seem to be dwindling day by day.