Matty Roses

If you remove the wage, and therefore the laborer, you are left with no profit

Not exactly. Because you’re not removing the labor, you’re just bringing it down to virtually nothing.

There’s still the labor of pressing the button to start the AGI.

But the larger problem capitalism has is one of the wage form - my wages are your income as a capitalist, since I buy things with them. You remove wages, and demand (desire plus ability to pay) collapses in the market. Super depression.

I’ve been a Transmission person for decades, what’s the reason to switch?

but American slaves were convicted!

Mostly of being not white, but you know . . .

Yeah, I’m just thinking that having chat rooms, etc, that cannot be shut down because they’re on Reticulum could be a very nice thing to have

Setting up a Reticulum node this week.

And wondering if there’s a matrix client that can use it, or if that’s something that needs to be made . . .

meh, we can make our own. Reticulum, fediverse and other projects.

someone should write a book about how capitalism functions. Call it like The Capital or something.

Which leads to less people being able to afford to earn a living from creating works, which leads to less original works being created.

It’s why the only solution for AI is socialism.

It breaks every profit model and the wage form otherwise.

weird how Chinese AI firms aren’t saying this - but then, they don’t have a massive fiscal crunch where they have to take delivery of trillions of dollars worth of contracted compute, that they haven’t yet found a market for . . . .

https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser-period-why-the-ai-boom

If I didn’t know better, I’d think they were trying to angle for a bailout!

Setting up some nodes in Barcelona this week!

no, that’s a competitive market.

Capitalism historically has usually sought to undermine them - because the only metric of capitalism is return to current holders of capital.

ah yeah, gotcha, thought you were talking just about bread.

Barcelona is amazing.

That’s not something new - even in 2004, the people that owned the voting machines in Ohio (Diebold) were openly talking about being committed to delivering a victory to Bush.

It’s just absolutely insane that we allow black box unexamined code to calculate votes. There’s been many suggestions on how to fix this - from open source systems disconnected from the internet to paper ballot reciepts to even blockchain, but none have been put in in the US.

they are known to be hacked by russia

Source on that?

that’s pretty standard for Europe as a whole - lived in Netherlands and Croatia (both smaller cities) and it was the same thing

That’s one thing that’s hard to explain to Europeans - the US has good food, some of the best in the world.

It’s just not the usual fare, and you will pay so much for it.

There’s great artisan bakeries - but here in Barcelona, every bakery has good fresh bread without additives for a euro or two right by your house. In the US, same things would take a specific car trip and cost much more.

or Mexican either.

Uh ‘Mexican’ isn’t indigenous either . . . it results from the fusion of Native American, Spanish, and French cuisines, among others.

And there isn’t a single Mexican cuisine either, there’s multiple.

Almost all non-artisan store bought bread in the US uses sugar in some degree to feed the yeast.

it’s actually not bad when fresh and covered in cream sauce

I had canned haggis growing up, and that was probably the foulest thing I’ve ever eaten

The bread in Europe isn’t drowning in sugar like American bread though