The closest thing to an endgame in capitalism is slavery.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
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Not just that, even as a company I would be seriously anxious when I know my business can be fully run by AI. That means that others can replicate your business very easily, which generates lots of competition, resulting in a race to the bottom. Which might even be good for consumers somehow.
And as a second point, we all know that when companies or people depend on AI the price to use that AI will go up to the point where it is almost as expensive as having actual people doing the job. All these billions poured in AI need to be earned back, so now your business will fail unless you basically pay them whatever they ask.
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It's like when horses were replaced by automobiles. the economy kept going, just maybe with more glue and less oats.
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You'll just have to sell your organs and work double shifts in the mines in order to pay for all the times the AI screws up your food order.
They just have all the money, and charge you to extract infinite interest on all the assets they now control.
VC is buying up as much water rights and housing as it can by the way.
Just an unrelated detail.
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They've already made a shitload of money. Now they're consolidating their extreme privilege into violent political control.
And when bubble pops, the rich will be paid immediately via an inflation tax on the poor as per usual...
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/13/1163180140/silicon-valley-bank-is-it-a-bailout-barofsky
In the boring real world, AI will not replace humans, it'll just make the existing humans more efficient. Efficiency is usually a good thing, although there needs to be a fight against letting all the profits go to the most powerful.
AI will not replace humans, it'll just make the existing humans more efficient.
This must be a form of AI that hasn't been invented yet. I've yet to meet a useful implementation.
As a software developer, AI has made me ten times more efficient. Before AI I used to produce 2-5 new bugs per day of work...
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AI is propped up by investors. Always promising the.next big thing is just around the corner. The money is pouring in from other wealthy people...let's be real us common folk rarely if ever pay for AI. Its businesses doing that
but one day those investors will expect a return, so AI is being shoved in everything in the hopes of finding a use case that is actually profitable
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So poor people will become disposable?
Solution: pay the politicians to declare a costly war, draft the poors, throw them into the meat grinder, they die off, AI owners profit by having everything be cheaper because all the poors died off.
Honestly there's no need because world population growth is declining anyways, so in a generation or two, even with AI, they're going to have the opposite problem.
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Oh wow.. Anon is the next Karl Marx. He independently figured out one of the contradictions of Capitalism defined by Marx. Congratulation comrade.
I like to imagine there are two possible positive outcomes
- Just switch to communism or communist like
- They made such an effort to automate that now manufacturing is really cheap, and before they know it, people just buy local. Like imagine if you could run a hardware store with a metal 3d printer. Maybe you no longer need big brands
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AI consumers
Most of us dead from climate change and famine. The rest slaves for the corpos, tend their fields and robot repair facilities or die.
Looks like someone is about to discover capitalist crises.
If AGI revolution happens at the hands of tech bros, the same people who have been advocating more kids will suddenly start saying less kids.
By that point the earth will be so polluted they will make profits by selling us clean air/02 in canisters, clean water, food an housing. Those of us that can't afford it will just die.
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