however little they’re paid, they’ll always be orders of magnitude more expensive than a machine. And the machine doesn’t complain, doesn’t rest, doesn’t get sick, doesn’t organize walkouts and produces results immediately.
however little they’re paid, they’ll always be orders of magnitude more expensive than a machine.
No… they’re not. The cost is going to depend on a lot of things - which includes the profiteering of the capitalists that’s going to own the AI.
Point is, it’s not the costs that is the problem - that’s just the excuse capitalists use. They can externalize costs, or get the poor to subsisize their costs - what the capitalist class has always done. The point is class warfare - they hold the people who make them rich in contempt and they always have, and this is the case irregardless of whether the workers in question…
doesn’t complain, doesn’t rest, doesn’t get sick, doesn’t organize walkouts
That’s the whole point of hierarchies - the people at the top is incentivized to, and has the power to, kick down no matter how accommodating the people at the bottom is to their parasitic needs.
however little they’re paid, they’ll always be orders of magnitude more expensive than a machine. And the machine doesn’t complain, doesn’t rest, doesn’t get sick, doesn’t organize walkouts and produces results immediately.
No… they’re not. The cost is going to depend on a lot of things - which includes the profiteering of the capitalists that’s going to own the AI.
Point is, it’s not the costs that is the problem - that’s just the excuse capitalists use. They can externalize costs, or get the poor to subsisize their costs - what the capitalist class has always done. The point is class warfare - they hold the people who make them rich in contempt and they always have, and this is the case irregardless of whether the workers in question…
That’s the whole point of hierarchies - the people at the top is incentivized to, and has the power to, kick down no matter how accommodating the people at the bottom is to their parasitic needs.