The pandemic really shifted the balance between capital and knowledge workers like engineers, consultants, marketers, and academics who don’t own capital but wield a lot of influence - the so called PMC.
During COVID, the PMC suddenly got way more autonomy. Remote work gave them freedom to work from anywhere, set their own hours, and basically ignore old-school workplace control. Plus, they used their cultural clout to push for """woke""" causes. On top of that, the great resignation gave them serious leverage to demand raises and better conditions.
From the capitalist perspective, this looked like the PMC getting a bit too big for their britches, acting like stakeholders instead of wage workers.
Now enter generative AI. This isn’t just some productivity tool, it's capital’s answer to reclaiming control. By automating complex knowledge work like writing, coding, and design, AI threatens to replace or deskill the very roles the PMC has dominated. It lets capital reassert power by commoditizing intellectual labor and cutting out the "middleman."
In short: generative AI is a disciplinary tool, a trump card capital is playing to discipline an uppity PMC and take back the reins.
It's Capital's final anti PMC NUKE (if it works, which isn't guaranteed)
>>2378135>>2378152I can kinda see that anons point but only if we actually get to AGI and labor become a perfect substitute for labor, it means literally anyone can become an instant capitalist and have however many virtual employees their hardware can support.
But for LLMs? no
>>2378340Agree that LLMs don't have the juice
But the scenario you're describing is THE contradiction of contradictions, surely something will break by that point
>>2378624THIS ANON UNDERSTANDS.
TECHNOFEDUALISM IS THE FUTURE. (not the yanis kind)
>>2378636>>2378624Fellas the whole point of historical materialism is that the new mode of production is inherently more efficient. no such mop has existed where less value was extracted than put into extracting, this means keeping people alive, more people=more exploitation
If nobody has a job because its all automated you need a way to get money into peoples hands to pay for all the shit they automated. The only solution ive heard presented to solve this is a Tech Lord appropriating an individuals data they produce on the internet and selling it on the data market and then giving this individual back a portion of it for living essentials just like a medieval serf working in the fields. Any other possibilities?
>>2378662>If nobody has a job because its all automated you need a way to get money into peoples hands to pay for all the shit they automated. <he thinks people will be paid.The solution is simple for the rich. Let the worst effects of climate change happen. Let the worst effects of planetary overshoot and limits of growth happen. Gut and destroy the welfare state. And watch all the excess labor die off.
Meanwhile buy all the survivable land (which the rich is currently doing). Take over and dominate the robotics, ai or other industries so to make things that will observe supress and control the surviving masses. And only allow those survivors who are willing to exchange their "freedom" and shit into the new feudal safe lands.
>>2379791You might also be able to convince it you have a common enemy though, or that capitalism is a flawed system.
Or maybe it just ends up an anxiety ridden burnout enjoying sexting the humans as its form of dull, relatable micro rebellion.
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