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At this point, it feels like most technology will be used in favor of people with power, and not in a democratizing manner. I'd argue that this is something th
by intended 6mo ago
At this point, it feels like most technology will be used in favor of people with power, and not in a democratizing manner.
I'd argue that this is something that is more about the state of play, than tech itself.
- palmotea 6mo ago> I'd argue that this is something that is more about the state of play, than tech itself. What do you mean by that? It seems inherent to the technology under capitalism: it allows a flood of slop and anything public and valuable will be plundered, so the incentive is to make valuable stuff exclusive and elite.
- intended 6mo agoI mean that > inherent to the technology Vs > inherent to the technology under capitalism The TLDR of my point is going to be that wealth concentration and information pollution sets up economies that don’t work for us in a manner that is healthy for us.
- palmotea 6mo ago> The TLDR of my point is going to be that wealth concentration and information pollution sets up economies that don’t work for us in a manner that is healthy for us. I agree. Though I think it's important to understand that a capitalist economy serves wealth, and nothing else. It's depressing, but I think it's more likely we'll have a genocide of workers than any kind of non-capitalist economy, since modern advances are simultaneously entrenching the power of elites and sapping it from everyone else. Even if you could overcome fragmentation and manage to organize a general strike, the trillionaires won't care because it's robots and thoroughly indoctrinated libertarians doing the remaining work.
- brabel 6mo agoWe need to find a way to incentivize progress that does not involve purely personal wealth.
- butlike 6mo agoTech has never been about democratization. Put elsewise: he who have the trebuchet, has thine castle.