It's capitalism.
Capitalism is a functioning AI that controls the world, that has had humans serving it. AI is the tool that capitalism will use to remove humans from the equation.
The end state of capitalism is slave labor. The end state of technocapitalism removes humans from the labor equation.
They try to hide that away by flowering you with "everything is free" and "communal this and that" but when it comes down to it, the very exact definition is you don't own your labor.
> That is Literally the definition: society based on common ownership of the means of production
So, you're saying in communism, the state is owned by you, and your work is owned by the state. And that somehow is more slave-like than when your work is owned by an employer-organization that's owned by some bosses?
> They try to hide that away by flowering you with "everything is free" and "communal this and that" but when it comes down to it, the very exact definition is you don't own your labor.
It's not any worse than a capitalist company town.
And honestly: a nation than banned private business and mandated that all workplaces be worker-owned cooperatives sounds pretty communist to me and in no way worse than our current system.
I'm really surprised Substack thinks Australia's social media laws apply to them.
(And no, I'm not willing to do that just to read an article.)
SilverElfin•37m ago
tmountain•30m ago
inigyou•1m ago
antonvs•29m ago
If someone like that wants to be in a position to warn society of actual harms, they'd have to behave differently.
scottLobster•23m ago
And the corporations won't fight this. They're in it for the money and they're willing to bring actual gold bars to White House to ensure it keeps rolling in. They know what they're doing is corrosive and debasing, the more conscientious of them probably want to vomit on the inside. But they mostly suck it up and do it anyway, for their investors will discipline them if they don't.
Either people run candidates and vote for the ones that campaign on stopping this, or it happens.
inigyou•2m ago
Worse: they'll be sacked and replaced with someone who will.
Like Trump's FCC chair was saying he'll revoke the license of stations that make republicans look bad. Those stations will then be replaced with more copies of Newsmax. CBS either toes the line or it gets shut down and replaced by a station that will.
senko•4m ago