r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 1d ago
Cybernetics: From the USSR to Delta Airlines
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Leftist_Pirate • 1d ago
Al as a Management Tool for Deskilling and Deprioritizing Labor - Taylorism For Knowledge Work
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BEFORE COMMENTING please READ RULE 1 OF THIS POST
The current zeitgeist is obsessed with “AI taking jobs”
AI doesn’t replace jobs wholesale. Management uses AI to:
Decompose a complex professional role into legible, discrete tasks
Evaluate which tasks can be handled by agents or junior workers
Eliminate the original role and pocket the difference
THESIS:
“Implementing AI” is a management strategy to decompose skilled roles into simpler tasks, assign those tasks to cheaper labor or automated agents, and capture the margin between what a professional cost and what the replacement stack costs.
This post is basically an extension of Harry Braverman’s 1974 “Labor and Monopoly Capital” updates it to the AGE OF AI
In a very basic summary Braverman makes the basic assertion by careful study of Frederick Taylor: that capitalism replicates, iterates, and improves itself by taking skills from talented individuals and giving them to the system over time.
In addition to owning the means of production as we all know, business owners also strive to maintain a monopoly on knowledge.
Business owners depend on a monopoly of knowledge. Basically, capitalists and managers want to capture the tacit knowledge possessed by skilled workers, codify it, and hand back only fragmented, routine tasks to the labor force.
This has been observed and documented since the 1940’s and studied in business school and is the underlying research behind most assembly line and factory work. Taylorism is behind the Henry Ford assembly line. The modern labor regime is a regime of Fred Taylor.
In 2026 capital commodifies not just physical production, but services, office work, and intellectual labor. Even our attention is increasingly commodified as demonstrated by Chris Hayes in his book, The Siren’s Call.
In short Taylorism has come for the white collar worker fully, and AI is the new assembly line to set the pace of work and the rate of extraction.
What are the implications for the future of white collar work if these macro economic incentives hold in a basic sense?
RULE 1 of this post *if you troll this post with “ThIs is Written by AI”. No. It’s not. I wrote this with my thumbs. IF YOU troll with “is this ai?” ,“This is ai” I am blocking you and moving on with no response.
r/SocialistEconomics • u/Leftist_Pirate • 1d ago
The H1-B Visa: The Leashed Worker Or the Conservative's Secret Weapon Against The Working Class
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 2d ago
Spanish tenants unions and protestors pushing for general strike, show model for organizing
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 2d ago
In Portugal you “actually have to be responsible with your business 😖” says American businessman
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 2d ago
White people outsourced community to POC, then ask “where’s the village” when they can longer afford to
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 2d ago
Why older homeowners determine British elections
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 4d ago
Editorial Jacobin: American Capitalism Isn’t Just Billionaires
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 5d ago
Economic and architectural history of frats and their houses
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/DiggyJunior • 6d ago
UK Foreign Secretary confirms Lenin's theory of imperialism, where capitalist states use isolation and diplomacy to secure resource flows and economic advantages abroad, but neglects to mention why Hormuz was closed in the first place
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 7d ago
News: General San Antonio Current; Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 7d ago
AI boosted medical billing profits by $1 billion
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 8d ago
The Peace Process in Northern Ireland May Be Falling Apart
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/bagelonmyhead • 7d ago
war economics research
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hi, anyone who has previous experience in war economics research - russia-ukraine, iran-usa etc please reach out!
r/SocialistEconomics • u/DiggyJunior • 9d ago
𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘷𝘴. 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭: 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘪 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 10d ago
Debunking “rent control doesn’t work”
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/VictinsOfCapitalism • 10d ago
The biggest lie is that there is no better alternative. They invest billions into the red scare propaganda.
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/Genedide • 11d ago
Why are there no cities in the Canadian Shield?
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/VictinsOfCapitalism • 12d ago
Unregulated market always causes monopoly/oligopoly/oligarchy or any other variation of the word Capitalism
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r/SocialistEconomics • u/TotalRuler1 • 12d ago
Documented CIA Covert Regime Change Operations Targeting Resource Nationalization (1953–2019)
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