AI is building the dependencies that make its own expansion increasingly necessary.
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AI: When the Bubble Bursts
Tag: political economy
The technological system cannot perceive its full costs because that blindness is one of the conditions of its success.
Much of what capitalism conditions us to fear in communism is what concentrated capitalism already does: centralise power, narrow freedom, restrict opportunity and preserve poverty as structural necessity.
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redesigning the global economy
The greatest trick concentrated capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that its own most destructive tendencies belonged exclusively to communism.
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how capitalism reconstructs scarcity
The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.
Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.
A system cannot sustainably maximise accessibility and scarcity at the same time.
The world is not merely broken. Too many people are paid to keep it that way.
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billionaire welfare
Extreme wealth is not proof of independence. The billionaire appears to stand above society, but in reality stands upon it.
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what is economic reality?
Economic reality is not found in the cash register. It is found in the relational field that makes the register mean anything at all.
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trillionaire
Civilisation was not built to worship wealth, but it has been redesigned to serve it.
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populist capture: one nation
A society overwhelmed by complexity eventually stops seeking explanations and starts seeking certainty; that is when political movements such as One Nation cease to be anomalies and become warnings.
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