LOL, another think piece about "AI may create a permanent underclass".

The tally of the wealth redistributed upwards from the bottom 90% between 1975 and 2023 is just shy of $ 80 trillion according to the RAND Institute.

We were well on the way to a permanent underclass without AI. Even a chatbot could probably tell you that, 😉.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-2.html

#income #inequality #workers #underclass #AI #history

Without looking I knew the final word in this headline would be “ #underclass” …

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:znnywn6dj6f73fq6a4kkxboy/post/3mih3jqfjyc2d
you have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass

I had a dream last night I went to work at Amazon. Joining the Bezos neofeudal empire. This post is directed at anyone with talent who works at a tech company ushering in this future.

the singularity is nearer

The widespread use of #ArtificialIntelligence LLMs will render a large segment of the #population illiterate and increasingly incapable of reasoning and thinking for themselves—the future social #underclass exposed to unprecedented exploitation and manipulation by the new masters of algorithms. The #enlightment era seems declining rapidly. Does anyone see the beginnings of a #luddite #resistance somewhere? Am I too #pessimistic ?

#AI

Hi everyone, please come to the Feral Class book Launch by Marc Garrett

Housmans Radical Booksellers, London @housmans 🙂

19th November, 7-8.30 pm

Published by #MinorCompositions

#class #avantgarde #underclass #working-class #books #art #memoir44

And it really doesn't matter that tankies are going to attack me for saying it. Yeah the Marxist-Leninist will claim "this is all a part of capitalism", because it fits their world view.

But for the rest of us not so much into 1800-century economic political theory, it's actually useful to draw this dividing line because of the paradigm shift building for rent introduces to building for profit.

#Capitalists as we know it, are now an #underclass Easier to talk about it like this.

#class

Why Republicans Want and Need a Permanent Economic Underclass

Ever heard of the “mudsill theory”? Well, it goes back to the slaveholding South. And it explains a lot.

The New Republic