The forward thinking nature of being able to crush any dissenters is a baked in part of class struggle. The State and the bosses are twinned at the hip and ensure that workers will be punished severely for getting above their station.
Criminal punishment is overwhelmingly used to selectively punish poorer people and political enemies, ignoring the general criminality of the ruling class.
Sure seems like the bosses and the state are in cahoots to make sure ANY criminality (regardless of it’s dubious class nature) is punishable by destitution. We should really work on trying to fix that.
I should clarify as well, that last sentence is still slightly wrong. If a firm has a first mover advantage in using new technology they can effectively earn excess surplus value off of the difference in productivity between their variable capital and other firms in their branch of production. This doesn’t mean that the technology itself is producing surplus value, just that it made the labour employed more productive relative to its competitors.
Any machinery including AI is constant capital. Labour is the only thing that can produce surplus value because you can pay a worker enough to keep them alive but their labour produces much more value than it costs. Constant capital is valued based on the crystallised labour held in it, and cannot produce surplus value when all branches of production that can use it are using it.
It’s Marx’s logic actually.
You fundamentally misunderstand. If a wage worker is paid the exchange value of labour-power I.e the cost to reproduce themselves, at the behest of a capitalist (the work could be in the service sector, like a chef, an artist; it could also be a plumber, and they could ultimately be doing work for consumers like other workers), they produce more value than they are paid for I.e. they produce surplus value.
A self-employed plumber or a live-in chef working directly for someone with no capitalist middleman, or an artist working for commissions do not produce surplus value. They sell the final product of their labour, not their labour itself, and they charge the going market rate for the product of their labour, not the going market rate for their labour-power by the hour.
An artist can be proletarian or petit-bourgeois. A chef can also be either, as can a plumber.
Your time would be better spent reading and studying Capital than professing your shoddy home-baked anti-capitalism online.
Art produced for a wage, for a capitalist, is productive labour. Art produced by an individual sold as commissions is not productive, I.e it produces no surplus value, the artist is paid the full value of their labour by the commissioner.
The artist hired by a capitalist already doesn’t own the outputs of their labour, and never has. Quit moralising and go and read a book.
I think the division of labour and the distinction of artist should die and that involves a socialism that involves everyone including what passes for artists these days doing work outside of art as required of them. So that everyone can do art instead of having a privileged few (relative to the global majority) that can while away their time making fan art commisions and shit YouTube videos.
Newsflash you PB jackass, workers haven’t owned the fruits of their labour the entire time. I do creative work as a wage labourer and I don’t own shit of the output I produce. Artists can suck a fat one if they think they can get out of being proletarianised like all the rest of us.
Petit Bourgeois sentimentality bullshit.
Copyright should be destroyed, end of.
You use more electricity streaming an episode of a HD netflix show than generating like 100 text prompts. Image generation is also way less costly than streaming.
The only really costly thing with LLMs is the training stage.
The not-Nazis don’t really want to go any where near the levers of power of clearly fascist states, so that’s a self-selection bias.
Dodgy Dave living up to his name the slimy prick
DWP workers are basically cops and the revolution should not spare them. Fucking cretin.
It’s literally the perfect use case for LLMs. Remove or lessen the effort required for capitalist busy work that is forced on us for no benefit.
Nah it’s not welsh at all, he was born there but grew up entirely in England.
A very enjoyable read, thanks.