This is why DeSantis is governor of Florida, if he or someone just like him wasnt governor, they might feel compelled to do a damn thing about it

Its easy to forget things you don’t give a fuck about

Exactly 666 words lol

The particular qualities of the machine itself are practically irrelevant. It doesn’t matter what the machine does, what inherent qualities it has. What matters is the relation it has to workers and the capitalists.

“Machines were the weapons used by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor”
– some blurry guy

It is enshittification and state intervention. Also theres like 8 different kinds of productivity, but as leftists i believe we are most concerned with the productivity of living labor.

Like the other commenter said, its theft.

Corporations are locked in a death spiral of declining rate of profit.

1. Covid made workers more productive by letting them work at home, which allowed us to regenerate our energies and take care of things in our lives, rather than obsessing over and shopping for new outfits and spending an hour in the car every day commuting.

2. Covid killed so many people, particularly older people, that it reduced the unemployed population by 12-15%. Lower unemployment is deeply connected to higher wages, as is higher unemployment to lower wages. Many workers were able to get promotions or find better jobs/leave dead end industries. This raised wages while productivity increased further. (This point is interesting given your name, Marx abandoned his formulation of the lumpen by the time he wrote Capital, but his analysis of the lumpen in the 18th Brumaire still has some relevant lessons.)

3. Increase in wages leads to increases in prices. Not because the money supply has become tighter or because theres a significantly higher demand for eggs; but because businesses increase prices when wages increase. Despite the war in Ukraine causing some cost increases, at least 50% of inflation was driven by corporations arbitrarily increasing costs to goose their bottom line. Well, it isn’t arbitrary. Capitalism compels corporations to compete with each other.

4. Bosses didn’t like their employees having a better standard of living (see note) so they ordered people back to work. Labor productivity returns to baseline.

5. When political and economic pressures forced companies to stop raising prices, they started shrinking packages in order to cut costs and add value to their bottom line. Again, competition forces everyone to do this in different ways.

6. When political and economic pressures forced companies to stop raising prices, the American business community elected Trump to do another tax break. DOGE gutted federal services and created the concrete basis for demolishing the USAmerican social and natural welfare state. This created a basis for reduced corporate taxes introduced in the Big Beautiful Bill, which will goose profitability in the short term.

7. Long term, the plan is for Ai to replace workers; eliminating intellectual workers and forcing a more competitive market and/or higher qualification hurdles for decent paying tech jobs, and lowering wages across the whole sector. This is necessary because tech skills are going to be really valuable of the AI grift actually works, and we can’t be paying workers the value of their labor. Over years it will increase unemployment as lower paying jobs are also automated away. That is, if AI actually works the way the grifters claim, which in my opinion is mathematically impossible.

However the economic effects of building all this tech infrastructure, like data centers and chip factories, will have varied impacts across various sectors. While there’s lots of uncertainty in the economy, my experience with the 2007 financial crash was that all these housing construction companies and related services started going under about 6-12 months prior to the second, larger crash, that included all the big banks and insurance companies.

There’s also an element of unemployment/reserve army related to people in prison. ICE raids drive down wages in industries that rely on immigrant labor; while putting stress on small farms to find workers. Small farms go under, get bought by big farmers and landlords, goosing the monopolization tendency of capitalism. And incarcerated people who are compelled to work are a part of the national productive apparatus, and drive down wages even further across all sectors.

Note from point 4, a quote from Karl Marx :

To the capitalist, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury

Wow machines don’t create new value, where have I heard this before?

Firing workers

Yeah I see it but thats not what the problem is. The author isnt saying “ai’s points of contrast arent relevant or helpful” its calling out the construction itself. The author complains about the ineffective writing of ai, and then names the wrong problem. Its like saying "the problem with ai writing is ai keeps usimg the word “the”. No that isnt the problem! There are problems and that isnt the one. It isnt a stylistic quirk, its the way the quirk is used that stands out, just like you said.

But actually I’m just having a laugh trying to fit in as many “its not x, its y” comments as I can. I’m all about criticizing ai but theres so much to actually criticize and this misses the mark

This is so silly. The way to explain a concept is to explain it in both the positive and the negative. Its the first steps to understanding, knowing not just what a thing is, but what it isnt.

I am not defending AI, but this writer is a loon. It isnt a stylistic choice, it is the most basic form of critical thinking. AI is not doing critical thinking, it is copping the style of an effective pedagogy.

It was probably an electrical fire caused by the CEO of the company following ai instructions on how to hide his mistress’s pregnancy from his wife, so I’m sure the CEO will find some poor working patsy

She’s like an IRL berserker. Shes like “I’ll have a panic attack,” never mentioning that her flight response summons the Norse God Loki

I believe that if you defeat a cop in battle then you can take his badge and gun and become the new cop. So its only consistent that if you free yourself while in custody, you are innocent of the crime

Why is everyone down on Rust? Seriously. I don’t know it but I’ve considered learning it and it appeals to me and people literally scoff when I mention it. Saw it referred to as a meme language on Lemmy, which is built in Rust. What am I missing?