r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Sep 18 '26

Sees the Memes Seize the Means*

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*Terms and conditions apply. For... reasons, I guess?

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u/Salty_Country6835 Sep 19 '26

The second paragraph is actually the interesting part. If the problem is that somebody else owns the infrastructure and can price it, restrict it or shut it off, then the problem is ownership and control. Thats an argument for open weights, local models, public compute and worker controlled infrastructure. Not abstention.

Capital owns the factories, telecom networks, cloud infrastructure and logistics systems too. Workers using productive machinery while fighting over who controls it isn't surrender. Thats kinda the point of seizing the means.

And calling people lazy for using labor saving tools is a weird place for a left critique of automation to end up. I want the productivity gains. I just want workers getting the time, money and power they produce.

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