> It is a narrative that interweaves with AI, too. AI is supposedly an efficiency boom. In the macroeconomy, who is the "efficiency" we are chasing for, who benefits?
> Who is getting the money that was "saved"? Regular people do not have more more money or time. The "efficiency" is for people who are already very rich, to get richer.
Pension funds and investment vehicles chase profit growth. The vast majority of people have a stake in that.
Only because it's a requirement if you ever want to retire in a society that puts profit above human life.
> Only because it's a requirement if you ever want to retire in a society that puts profit above human life.
You think profit is anti-human?
No: he seems to think that profit shall not be more important that human life
I kind of agree with him: probably, a civilization deemed to be called "advanced" would have everything in place to sustain the basic needs of its members: that would be the baseline of everything
Where the fuck do you think retirement resources come from if not the market and its profit generation?
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