And AI is the Golden Calf that investors and CEOs think will generate profits without having to pay humans.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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Always has been?
Not to this extent, but yeah, it's almost like there should never be superwealthy to exist.
We need tax brackets that go up to 100%. If you own more than $100m in assets, everything above that should be taxed 100%. We need to remove the possibility for billionaires to exist. We also need to dissolve massive corporations by enforcing/expanding antitrust laws. Stop the concentration of wealth, in any form. There should be zero incentive to concentrate wealth in the first place, which could be achieved (at least, at first) with a significant amount of socialism infused into our current capitalist systems.
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They're working on a way to monetize just breathing just you wait.
Water first, wait they did that already
They already primed that idea with the bogus "fresh air cannisters" story projected onto CHYNA CHYNA CHYNA.
I feel like the only way we could ever escape this is by going back to trading with actual goods. Money is the root issue. Because it isn't worth anything by itself, except maybe fire tinder or goat feed, everyone and everything always needs to generate profit in order to do anything else than work, e.g. eat. And the profit part is also the issue. Everyone cannot make a profit, unless you create new money, which will make it worth less, and your profit margins need to keep increasing, which, again, everyone can't do, and the cycle continues.
It's just a flawed system in general, even if you use precious metal coins or something, those things don't really have any inherent value to a human being. You can't eat it for nutrients, can't really use it as building material (debatable I guess).
We need to have goods for goods, and goods for services.
Life will be a lot more boring, but we'll escape this hamster wheel, perhaps.
Or it will just bring us other problems. 🤷♂️
Edit: this also means we need to get rid of the profession of being a trader. Because they inherently only work to make a profit. As they pay for things, they need to pay under value and sell over value, because they produce nothing but profit for themselves. Everyone has to produce something or be entirely self-sufficient. It's very difficult.
Having a monetary trading unit is not the problem. Trading goods for goods is not always an option because you might need goods or services from someone who has no interest in the goods or services which you produce. The main problem is when this monetary trading unit inherently and intentionally devaluates over time. Therefore if we just used gold we would be far better off.
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Let's do a communist gift economy
What's that? How does that work? 🙂
It's how the economy worked in Australia before colonisation. It was explained to Me by an Elder from the central desert. Before colonisation, there was no word for work. There was a word for sweat. You put sweat into helping your community because you loved your community. Karl Marx explained it a little differently; he said: From each according to ability, to each according to need.
David Graeber wrote this book called Bullshit Jobs. A bullshit job is a job so pointless, even the person doing it believes it has no purpose. Some people with bullshit jobs don't even have to do any work. They just sit in an office all day browsing Reddit and pretending to work. Graeber thought these people would be happiest, but they're not. They're depressed and unhappy. Turns out, humans have a psychological need to contribute valuable work to society. They need to help others.
A gift economy is the natural and proper state of humanity. Trading work for currency tokens is a dangerous aberration. Groups who live and work together don't need to barter in order to cooperate. If you take people out of the capitalist mind prison, a gift economy is just what makes sense. We already have communism for children; we give them food, housing, clothes, and an education for free. But it takes a village to raise a child. So imagine if everyone in your community just helped each other the way we help kids. That's communism.
I love it. Sign me up. I wanna go back.
I think we're gonna have to have a revolution first. The capitalist state forces us to engage with the whole money system. We need to tear down the state.
Step 1 is to spread more knowledge of communism through your community. Step 2 is to use direct action and mutual aid to build a revolutionary group who see and practice the benefits. Step 3 is going to have to be a coup of the government by the people, where we smash apart the machinery of government.
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Slavery wasn’t ended. Just rebranded and expanded.
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant machine to generate profit for corporations.
It doesn't stop at humans. Farm animals, plants, minerals, everything is for profit.
No fate but what we make for ourselves.
Yeah, but if poor people got access to healthcare, all of society would crumble. I would rather live on the street and starve to death from malnutrition than ever vote for that brown person or trans person to have access to healthcare /s
Walks into SpaceX “Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death and destruction."
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