AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power

bix6•about 1 hour ago

Higher corporate taxes and local control please, thanks.

palmotea•about 1 hour ago

More regulation. Specifically requiring worker-owned means of production: re-organize the AI model companies as mutuals and mandate (by law) that their only customers can be individual-contributor-level workers or worker unions. Ditto with robotics.

NoMoreNicksLeft•about 1 hour ago

This doesn't solve any of the problems. It's not a 19th century factory running on leather-belt-harnessed steam engines. There aren't 10,000 workers. There are at most a few dozen "individual-contributor-level workers". You're still concentrating all of that onto a really small number of people. Who, incidentally, have demonstrated time and again that their behavior tends to imitate the big powerful robber barons' behavior of old (because there are relatively few of them and no one to dilute the aggregate back to your preferred leftist mindsets).

You've really lost the plot.

dadjoker•about 1 hour ago

Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past.

josefritzishere•25 minutes ago

Capitalism is failing us right now. Why are you looking in the past?

palmotea•about 1 hour ago

> Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past.

Yeah, won't anyone think of the poor oligarchs, openly fantasizing about creating a permanent underclass?

And the only thing that didn't work out well in the past was central planning by state-owned businesses with 20th century technology. The structure I proposed is nothing like that.

toivo•about 1 hour ago

Late-stage capitalism has always worked out so well in the future.

Dig1t•25 minutes ago

Isn’t this basically the situation in Europe?

It seems like that just supercharges brain drain by incentivizing all the smartest and richest people to just move away to a place with lower taxes and less bureaucracy.

unwise-exe•about 1 hour ago

Not much of an AI thing, just the standard "rich people should have (control over) their resources confiscated" that keeps popping up in various forms.

AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power

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