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By this analysis, organizations/corporations that buy into the #AI sales pitch and replace their workforce seem likely to collapse due to incompetence. Those that maintain their human expertise would thrive because of decreased competition. This, of course, assumes that civilization doesn't completely fall apart. The massive economic power of the big monopolies coupled with incompetence is really scary. Kind of similar to the Trump administration.
I need to think more about it

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"It's because in a creative market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two mobile app stores, and a single company that controls all the ebooks and audiobooks, giving a creative worker extra rights to bargain with is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money."

I gotta work that into a conversation sometime soon.

@pluralistic The saddest part about losing sectoral bargaining is that the only way we're going to successfully campaign to get it back is a full general strike, where *every* sector shuts down with the specific demand to repeal Taft-Hartley.

It ties back into how in a world of perfect law enforcement, social progress becomes impossible.

@pluralistic Hi Cory - do you happen to know if the presentation you gave was being recorded? I'd be interested to watch it, though the text version will do nicely. 🙂

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> And I'm here to tell you they are wrong:w rong because

Typo

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When does "alternative money" just become the equivalent of worthless coal town company scrip?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

Coal barons **hated** FDR for outlawing company scrip in 1938.
https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/flsa1938

Now company scrip is back again. With all its pernicious uses.

When a company can fire you just before you vest your stock options, were you really paid for all that under-the-table overtime?

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1. Buying the book the second it comes out.

2. "Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market ...""
My jaw just hit the floor. This pop! is going to hurt.

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Reading this.
Paused to say, AI doing imaging evaluations has worried me since I first heard of it, and now you have given a whole other ($ milking) shape to the concern, and I don't know how to finish this thought.
Nightmares ahead.

@pluralistic Such a great piece! Looking forward to the book too!

It hit so many things that are so important, I particularly like this part
#AI #AISlop

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Madison, CT; #Hamburg and #Denver!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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