• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    18 hours ago

    It doesn’t have to come to the point of full automation. Just hollowing out enough labor that there isn’t enough surplus value to overcome the rents that finance capital created over the last half century of large scale rentseeking a.k.a. neoliberalism.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      16 hours ago

      Yeah, i guess Marx went to the furthest possible conclusion because he usually avoided making prophecies without knowing conditions, but it’s pretty obvious that even if we ignore everything else, capitalist system will collapse way before reaching that point.