I agree, but I don’t think this is the driving force. It’s just a way that this driving force is visible and concreyely comes into existence. The driving force is the need to punish labor to drive down wages, and Ai is just an excuse (and it has multiple forms).

What you’re stating is 1 concrete way that this systemic force acts

I don’t even think you have to go this far, its really just that wages of even specialists cns be lowered because they first use Ai as a stick to fire (some of) them, then rehire labor at lower costs for the same work. They will expect the same skill, just lower wages because of the magic ‘there’s AI’ button they theorize to have

Once again, the point of Ai is to punish labor, not to increase productivity. It’s profitable by decreasing cost of labor through lowered wages, not by decreasing amount of labor. Every article fighting about efficiency to do the work in terms of hours only misses this.

Plus, class consciousness of the bourgeois makes it to where lost profit in exchange for long term containment of labor through this punishment is a positive

It’s definitely not only Trots. Losurdo has a whole book about Bonapartism. I must admit to not having read it yet, so I will not say what it exactly claims. But I can almost guarantee that it didn’t say that the US isn’t fascist because of Bonapartism lol

Option C, this is just a continuation of anti-corruption and holding leaders accountable, regardless of their position relative to Xi? The leaders might not be corrupt to their core, but failed to fight the corruption well enough?

This has been the position I’ve been taking.

The Guardian Claiming Delcy Rodriguez collaborated

I’m still entirely unsure of what went down in Venezuela. How does this seem to the news mega? I’m doubtful of unnamed sources, as always, but what does media claiming this mean for western strategy?

I am planning to just strap em to my chest and peddle lol. Those chairs seem scary and high up, making it more top heavy and I don’t like that feeling.

Wow yeah this is exactly how it feels. I hadn’t been able to put that into words. It’s the projection of the general “rules on how games work” back onto the society that created the rules.

Full agreement. Good proposal

I think this is actually my disagreement, because I think capital in itself would do so, but capitalism as a system has systematized class collaboration between capitalists to prevent them doing this

Ian Wright is great. Vampires live longer than humans (but canonically are dead right?), just like capital. Good addition

I always find this one interesting. I think Capitalism as en entire system isn’t necessarily cancerous in total. Marx probably didn’t have the vision of cancer we have today, but I think his analogy about the vampire was still better. Capitalism as a system is hard to just call a cancer because it is productive, because its laborers are productive. Capital as cancer in the system is closer, but still not as good. So saying that capital is a vampire, and so capitalism is a society dominated by vampires, is a better analogy. It is dead, but can only keep itself moving and growing by consuming the living (labor). In doing so, it grows and gets more hungry, and continuously needs to balance a need to consume more versus to let the living (labor) produce (so that it can be consumed). Cancer has no such mechanism to protect itself and no desire to stay alive and growing. Capital is mindless but the system gives it interests and mechanisms to act within the system in its own interest.

I guess my point is that cancer as an analogy underestimates capital and the system in which capital functions as the organizer of labor.

Long rant, no real reason I wrote this out except I was kinda bored. Calling it cancer is fine too lol

Well they’re gonna try for sure. But I think China can resist it well

But honestly trump is right. The “independent committee” is so clearly political that the European governments could’ve easily forced Trump as the winner and it would’ve been so (or propagandized in favor of Trump to accomplish this). Now the libs act like it’s really independent and get all pissy that Trump doesn’t get it. Trump couldn’t understand it if it were truly independent, but it’s not anyways

We really need to educate on “the purpose of a system is what it does.” It’s a beautifully simple premise which no libs grasp in the political domain.

Well my guinea pigs need extra vitamin c from a lil chewable according to my vet. So what, are you calling my guinea pigs worthless or something??? /s

“this debate is over”

This is someone making the mistake that Sartre pignantly described in the hid well known quote about antisemites. They know it’s ridiculous and already did

Wow that’s a cool site, putting your name and pronouns into stories to test how it feels. I have no current doubts about my gender or pronouns and no real desire to explore at the moment for myself, but can see how valuable this is for anyone with any doubts or desires to explore! I’m going to keep this one in the back pocket for my child once he’s old enough to understand it.

Cool thanks!