@VincentLogic AI doesn’t only empower the owners of the system. It also empowers the operators — if they use it to expand their agency rather than compress it
@VincentLogic The short version: When supply‑chain workers use AI, they strengthen technocratic power at the system level, but they may balance it at the class level — if they gain autonomy, not just tools.
@ProfHall1955@wjprescott There was a sci-fi miniseries about vampires taking over the world. I can't remember if they established a sustainable economy for themselves, but banksters ought to watch it just in case that is the moral of the story.
@RelearningEcon Industry expanded after 1873 because the technological and organizational logic of industrial capitalism—high fixed costs, low marginal costs, and global markets—overpowered the deflationary constraints imposed by the gold standard.
@VincentLogic On the eve of each reconstitution there's been a would-be Caesar like Napoleon or Hitler. The Techno‑Administrative Stratum is too eager. Not fond of the National Security Manager bloc. Richardson narrates the Civic Cadre. Protoplasm needs atoms as much as bits.
@VincentLogic Wish y'all'd do what Veblen wanted. Each stage has created the conditions for the next. Nobles → created merchants ; merchants → created industrialists ; industrialists → created financiers
financiers → create… whom? Caesar? Feel free to butt in!⬇️
@BenYehudaGouda@martinez_j7902 Naw, it's just that Zionist success in developing the region gave the lie to Arab self-deception and fomented orc-hatred which eventually became mutual. Ever watch SNL's "Danger Probe" skits? When the neollib noose tightened on the world's scrotum, compromise ended.