Not just that, even as a company I would be seriously anxious when I know my business can be fully run by AI. That means that others can replicate your business very easily, which generates lots of competition, resulting in a race to the bottom. Which might even be good for consumers somehow.
These “people” in charge of corporations genuinely forgot that the workers they underpay are the consumers who they on rely to give them money.
The greedy would be considered mentally ill if logic could dictate. They care more about what they own than how others think of them. They can’t take it with 'em.
Plan is focus on foreign markets
Capitalism is a rabid dog, that only managed to serve the middle class well in the past because it was kept muzzled and on a tight leash.
Successive, and successful attempts to ‘unleash the beast’ have left us bit, and apologies for mixing metaphors here, but there is probably no way left, to get the genie back into the bottle:
Undoing 50+ years of damage would take time, especially when faced with resistance from those that stand to benefit most from the current broken system (think the Top 1% of the 1%), and that is time that we simply do not seem to have.
Falling rate of profit by karl marx predicted this. Self destructive nature of capitalism
A socialist revolution is the only solution and it will come.
A socialist revolution is the only solution and it will come.
Not the only. The rich still can lead us to fascism. The only problem is that fascism has its own internal contradictions and history won’t stop there.
isnt that the plot of wall-e
The closest thing to an endgame in capitalism is slavery.
They provided slaves with food and shelter. That’s all that many can afford now. But we have the freedom to travel if we can afford to, you know, when we’re not busy slaving.
We accrue non-slave-time slowly at approximately 2 weeks per year. We can use it for leisure, but that’s expensive, so gotta budget for it! And we also must spend a week before and after slaving extra hard to make sure the masters don’t notice our lack of slaving while we’re away.
Oh, you have no idea. If you don’t have a job (or 5), then you’re going to prison for being a vagrant. Or they do some dystopian shit where you are in the equivalent work labor camp, where you are provided basic life necessities in exchange for paying off your debt by working based on your skills. No skills? Manual labor in farms or construction.
People really have no idea what we’re complacently walking into. If you’re not rich, and I mean a few million american dollarooos or trump bucks… say next 10 years…? You’re fucked.
sounds like a lot more work than setting up drones full of petrochemical cleaning agents that spark.
The executives sell the corporate plane piece by piece while still in the air, then jump out in a golden parachute while the remains of the company nose dive to a fiery end.
This; look at how short-term they’re already thinking.
They will see the writing on the wall long before they actually have any genuine fear for business. And they’ll take the money and run, just like they already do now.
Yeah the thing that pisses me off the most is the wealthy elite only got wealthy because of the disposable income of a healthy middle class. Without that the whole system collapses. So striving for more and more wealth is only going to hurt everyone in the long run. The worst part is they will be the last to be hurt.
Kill off all of the poors they no longer need and live in a utopia being served by robots.
The time machine by hg Wells. The rich force the poor underground into manual labor until both evolve and the poor start eating the rich
Unironically the closest answer to reality except they’ll just let us die
Yeah, I wasn’t joking. That’s our future if we don’t get our shit together and bring them down first.
Given cuts to medicaid and vaccine approvals being rolled back, one had best hurry.
Dont you need poors for there to be rich? Even if they didnt need us to work cause some amazing AI, they need to flex it to real people right? Or will they stroke their ego with ai VTubers?
The Penultimate Truth is a really awesome book about pretty much this, except they stuck the poors underground in Tanks.
tanks?
varoom vroom! or gurgle gurlge?They are sort of like Vaults in Fallout, it’s seriously one of my favorite books. Phillip K Dick
So gurgle gurgle then
The idea is just to get there first. If you make it one quarter before your competition then you get a a really good quarter.
Long terms plans don’t matter to CEOs. Long term stability is not rewarded by capitalism.
Also if they believe the outcome is inevitable in the near future it’s a certain kind of sensible to race to be first. It’s a variant on the prisoners dilemma where they can see each other racing to rat the others out in the hope that the first will get a discount on sentence length.
Nobody is thinking beyond next quarter.
What’s funny is that virtually everyone acknowledges it. Even Trump acknowledges it when he said that “China thinks in decades”. But the Western capitalist culture is too strongly ingrained that the instinct to be greedy overrides any rational sense.
i find it especially grating that the people who parrot things like “give a man a fish / teach a man to fish” are the same people who will sell off company land and buildings to a landlord who then charges them rent for it, because “wAOW LOOK HOW MANY MONEYS WE MADE IN THE QUARTER WHERE WE SOLD ALL OUR SHIT!”
