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We are moving closer to the future Marx envisioned as a utopia—not through a workers’ revolution, but through capitalist productivity.
by misano 14d ago
We are moving closer to the future Marx envisioned as a utopia—not through a workers’ revolution, but through capitalist productivity.
- scott_weber 14d agoMarx envisioned the class struggle ending with the triumph of the working class, and a subsequent dissolution of all class systems. AGI, if defined as a fully general replacement for labour, suggests a "bad ending" to class struggle: the liquidation of working classes, and the eternal reign of the ruling class.
- AngryData 13d agoMarx envisioned the working class have control of and directly receiving the dividends of their economy, and thus from AI also. I certainly don't expect to get a dividend payment from AI anytime soon just for being part of the working class.