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Are you sure the capital-enabled won't abolish us for trying to do so?

• bluefirebrand 3mo ago
  They will certainly try, but they don't have the capability yet It's probably a really bad idea to keep building them autonomous killing machines though
  • danelski 3mo ago
    I wouldn't be surprised if multiple nation-states already had them without calling them such because 'Look, someone pushed a button 3 hours ago before it engaged'. Once the private capital gets their hands on them, we immediately transition to cyberpunk no matter what else happens in the world.
  • malnourish 3mo ago
    Hyper proliferation of drones seems to end in a state of mutually assured destruction, from my armchair.
• OtomotO 3mo ago
  Capital loses all it's value the moment it's all in the hands of a few. If people cannot even get a piece of the cake anymore, the cake doesn't hold any power over them. So if the rich and powerful just hoard the money, they will lose. If they hoard weapons: well, if they need people to operate the weapons (or serve them), they will still fall. The thing is: They look invincible. They are not though. They are human, they bleed, they fear, they die just like the rest of us.
  • inigyou 3mo ago
    That's true for money, but there are real capital resources whose ownership matters extremely. E.g. every part of food production.
    • OtomotO 3mo ago
      People will not just lay down and wait for death's sweet embrace though. There is a whole lot of people involved in food production and the owners can't own it without people willing to let them own it. As soon as money is out of the equation many powerful lose their power.
      • inigyou 3mo ago
        The owners in any society almost always have the guns on their side, and they can outgun anyone else. That's what makes them the owners. They can outgun any farmer, because the farmer spends all their time farming but the owner's goons spend all their time training in violence.