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Yang proposed paying for his "basic income" by cutting every other entitlement, essentially creating a landlord bailout while eliminating the social safety net. AI doing the work of junior associates means in a few years there will be no senior associates. A race to the bottom.
A partner at a prominent law firm told me “AI is now doing work that used to be done by 1st to 3rd year associates. AI can generate a motion in an hour that might take an associate a week. And the work is better. Someone should tell the folks applying to law school right now.”
“Socialism is not destined to succeed capitalism. Capitalism can collapse in a brutal, chaotic endgame of wars and natural disasters. To avoid this is our task; and to accomplish that task, we must fulfill the transition to socialism. To do this, we need to learn from the past…
The biggest takeaway from the endless "productive labor" discourse is this: Only a capitalist is concerned with whether labor is productive or not, and only a fascist can't tell the difference between what's "productive" in Marxist terms and what's "productive" in general.
Automation is Alienation. Profit made from the labor of automated jobs is converted into constant capital. This is done to displace the human workers from their work and expand the reserve pool of labor, driving down wages and driving up profits.
When Democrats talk about Trump's insane increase for ICE funding as an existential threat, they mean to their own party. If posed with a question of whether this open fascism means we can move away from capitalism, their answer will always be "no."
The capitalist class are building concentration camps and selling official merch.
Every so-called anti-imperialist who promoted Donald Trump as an anti-war president is now very blatantly exposed as a liar or a fool.