Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]
It’s only through ML the contradictions are sublimated ie the solution to privatised control is not to unsocialise the labour but to socialise control of the means of production as an extension of socialised labour… which is why China is winning whereas the best West has to offer to counter what they consider “corporatism” is limitinv - either anti-AI artisanal variety of reaction or “pro-AI” but some version of what Doctorow has to offer as a solution - ie individualised “emancipation” (and I still think your article was a good share)