Professor David Farrier
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And maybe a way to talk about this is to talk about the cane toad.
Yes, I had no idea.
The cane toad, poor cane toad.
But I...
I was provoked by, um, Nancy Fraser's book, Cannibal Capitalism, that asks what animal is, uh, is capitalism.
I thought it was a wonderful question.
She says it's an aruberos, a snake eating its tail.
And I thought that's great.
But, um,
For me, it's a cane toad because cane toads are this extraordinary expansion engine.
Since their introduction to Australia about 100 years ago, they have evolved this extraordinary capacity just to expand because nothing can eat them, nothing can stop them.
So they've just expanded relentlessly.
And in doing so, they've evolved an adapted gait, longer legs.
So they can move faster.
So they can move faster.
And they've also evolved this...
relentless drive to move forwards as well.
The first generations didn't have that.
They meandered.
So they've become kind of capitalism embodied.