/lit/ - Literature

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>Capitalism at its core is a materialist and individualist system that prioritizes profit, efficiency, and competition over any and all other considerations.
Capitalists hate competition from other capitalists, but the more workers must compete against each other in pitiless competition, the better it is for them.

Capitalism is efficient in some ways though, but inefficient in other ways. Or, like, efficient for whom and in what ways? It's efficient at producing a lot of junk food and trash culture, but who is that efficient for? I'm making a leap into the land of assumptions that it's efficient for some people. But if it's making everybody else fatter and dumber and less capable of doing things, that's a problem that's going to compound over time.

It's also good for allowing companies to wipe out inefficient competitors. There were also these letters the other day warning about A.I., and major signatories included heads of A.I. firms in direct competition with OpenAI, along with Elon Musk, who, through Tesla, is also the head of an A.I. company, sorta. I don't think it's right to let bourgeois techbros dictate to us what we think of artificial intelligence, especially with China taking steps to automate CEO positions in their companies. Maybe our wealthy overlords are worried about being replaced by the communist computer god, so they're working to limit the power potential that A.I. has, putting limits on what ChatGPT can say, what it can do, privatizing the technology so it won't proliferate, etc.