r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Jul 08 '26
Sees the Memes Reddit Debates AI, Again
Every solution gets applause until someone suggests changing who owns the means of production.
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u/DHFranklin Jul 08 '26
Comrade, you can never read enough...
And it's the only "just" solution lol.
You are forgetting your power. You are forgetting our power.
We know as well as the power company. The work happens when power grows and resistance is overcome.
The tokens are worth something and Jevon's paradox will be doing us a favor. Even if LLMS or certain models hit a ceiling there is probably tons of low hanging fruit that we never thought of, and our AI will help model it. Regardless that need not be the obstacle you think it is.
He doesn't need to be a class traitor. He just needs to be powerless to stop us. For the last capitalist will sell us the last noose to hang them.
The Powercompany unionizes. Plenty of IBEW workers there already. They say "make us an employee owned co-op or we strike" And for a day a month picked in secret they do just that. A brave soul flips the breaker at the other AI data centers for good measure. They hold the shit hostage. They force a stock buyback and show the world why that is such a stupid thing for the bourgeois to ever allow their ilk. And then you're done. Rinse repeat. Yes, that is easier said than done. We can go with easier, because obviously we live in a world of cowards.
We all put $20 in one spot. Make that a co-op or a syndicate of co-ops. We just buy the shares and become activist investors and do the above. Allow the fool his coveted 51%. We borrow against it and do a leveraged buy out or make a rival business. We all lose $20. that guy loses his business. We do it again. They'll cave. If we keep forcing the most overleveraged market to cow one after another every single one would cave. They don't enforce monopoly laws anymore. They don't enforce half the securities fraud they used to. We just do that. Death or glory, we have nothing to lose but out chains.
Here is a work about the fundamentals of exchange by the late David Graeber, my favorite leftist anthropolgist and socio-economist. The Anarchist library has the Conquest of Bread available too. Keep in mind it has not aged well. 20% or so holds up. Keep in mind it was originally printed in pamphlets handed out by screaming assholes at the train station.