Prepare for an AI Jobs Apocalypse

Monopoly is the end state of unregulated competition and capitalism. A monopoly destroys the value of capitalism by undermining the power of competition to set efficient prices.

Individuals lack the bargaining power to overcome monopoly power.

2.AI will make broad categories of knowledge work so easy to create that the value will approach $0. Hard to make a living as a marketer, developer, payroll processor when it’s $0 to do that work. Saying “get a job loser” when monopolistic firms aren’t hiring is a bit insane.

And yes every technology revolution displaced workers with a promise of better material and labor conditions by whatever form of domination was en vogue.

Those better conditions never materialized from the firm owner, only through direct action like the haymarket affair and others did modern labor practices start changing.

The anti-cooperative propaganda in the U.S. has been so effective since WWII that *any* sense of cooperative organizing is seen as unrealistic and childish at best, or evil perversion of the righteousness of domination at worst.

So if you don’t care about individual liberty then yeah everything is just fine provided you’re in the bourgeoisie.

I do actually think this time is different because all and I mean ALL of the infrastructure for revolt has been eradicated through consumption.

Good luck having a secret meeting of a few hundred revolutionaries or organizing an action deliberately.

I hope you build thick enough castle walls or a deep enough bunker when the jobless, unwashed masses come to steal your food.