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by palmotea 237 days ago
> If the oligarchs want to push 'AI, AGI, etc' we need to include by extension moving on from Capitalism.

Actually, they don't. Capitalism can just move on to only allocating resources between the oligarchs and the oligarchs only. Labor of all kinds just gets kicked out.

And if you don't like it, drone technology is pretty close to the point where it could "take care of" (kill) the discontents.

> You can't take away half of Capitalism's structures and still claim it is a useful/workable model for society.

Capitalism has always been about serving the interests of the people with money. If you have no money you're nothing to capitalism and can go die for all it cares. In prior centuries, technological limitations meant some of that money had to be spread around fairly widely, but the capitalist elite may be on the verge of fixing that glitch (with AGI).