Claims that AI is undermining capitalism remain unproven without sector-by-sector accounting of living labor, surplus value, and capital investment.
The essay criticizes treating use-value or supposedly “authentic” human needs as a ready-made socialist standard, warning that this enables socialism from above rather than worker self-emancipation. AI does not eliminate labor so much as obscure and relocate it, especially through low-paid annotation, moderation, chip, mining, and infrastructure work concentrated in the Global South. He rejects the idea that AI-made goods have “little to no intrinsic value,” arguing that value is a socially validated relation rather than a property embedded in objects. The author agrees that AI’s productivity claims are overstated, its infrastructure is materially intensive, and dominant firms capture value through monopoly power and imperial relations. -- Tony Needs_Decided_in_Advance.docx ( https://1drv.ms/w/c/c3598b38f68269be/IQCdw3GGlcR9R5lDMzdpHgzIATfLZE_YXR04GF22O8bHK4A?e=g0hM8r ) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#43454): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43454 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/121311251/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
