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Another commie pipe dreaming...
That's a baby-brained, comatose comment. Do you realize how stupid you sound saying that? If anything, capitalism creates slaves, not socialism. Socialism places everything in the hands of the public, whereas capitalism privatizes everything in the hands of a few capitalist multi-millionaires and billionaires.
Capitalism is a system of human exploitation, where one small parasitical group of people who own everything (under the protection of the government) refuse to work, hence they hire others to work for them, for a wage (that is always worth less than what the worker is producing), to make a profit.
Without wages, the capitalist boss/fief lord doesn't have any customers, hence wages and profits are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other.
Why would you, a working-class person support your capitalist masters, who are exploiting and reducing you, to a mere commodity in a "labor market"? You're dehumanized, into a product to be purchased by a capitalist master, in a labor market and exploited like a machine. You own nothing of what you produce and are placed in an adversarial position against your fellow workers, who are competing for the same job (until workers wake up and unite, forming a labor union).
Adam Smith the father of capitalism identifies capitalists as masters:
What are the common wages of labour, depends every where upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labour.
It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. ( Wealth Of Nations - Book I, Chapter VIII)
Why do you defend your wage slavery? Because your capitalist employer/exploiter masters have brainwashed you. You drank the capitalist Kool-Aid.
Democrats, they put more people out of work than any other party in human history and are damned proud of it.I am no commie. I have done well in our capitalist society.
But the facts say there will be a change.
The population is growing. More and more people are entering the workforce.
The number of jobs, if growing at all, is growing incrementally.
There will be a point in which there are hundreds of thousands of people without work. We will either come up with a way to feed and house them, or there will be a bloody revolution.
People have ways of dealing with "useless eaters". Anyone who thinks the future holds some idyllic shangri-la, where they'll be fed, and housed for nothing; is naieve at best...There will be a point in which there are hundreds of thousands of people without work. We will either come up with a way to feed and house them, or there will be a bloody revolution.
You’re the delusional one, Capitalism isn’t going anywhere. Your utopian wet dream will crash and burn, dreaming is okay, your fantasy of an automated economy will never work.You're delusional if you think artificial intelligence and advanced automation aren't going to replace most jobs. Even pro-capitalist experts admit to this, so you're just in denial. You're suffering from a bad case of cognitive dissonance.
There will always be a wealth gap, it's just that democrats tend to favor policies where more and more people are impoverished with less and less super rich folk that herd around all the poor folk.You’re the delusional one, Capitalism isn’t going anywhere. Your utopian wet dream will crash and burn, dreaming is okay, your fantasy of an automated economy will never work.
It's obvious that the only true solution to the inevitable replacement of human wage-labor by advanced automation and artificial intelligence, is a marketless, non-profit, publicly owned, more democratic, centrally planned system of mass production, a.k.a. socialism. The billionaires see the writing on the wall:
No wage labor (or not enough of it) = No Paying Consumers (or not enough customers) = No Market (or not a large enough market worth investing in) = No Profits (not enough ROI) = No Capitalism (No Capitalists Making A Profit) = Socialism (non-profit, marketless production that doesn't rely on wages being paid to a labor force, that purchases products and services in a market).
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When production is fully or mostly automated, there's no more need for wage-labor or markets. Socialism is the natural, inevitable successor of capitalism, just as capitalism was the successor of feudalism.
Americans due to decades of Cold War anti-socialist, capitalist propaganda, and brainwashing, are unable to accept this self-evident fact. It's mostly Americans over 50 years old, who have trouble coming to terms with this, not the younger generation. The Millenials are much more open to socialism and the Zoomers are the most socialist generation in American history.
The transition to a non-profit system of production is going to be much smoother in the near future, as boomers retire and the younger generation takes the helm.
Change is inevitable, always the case. That doesn’t necessitate robots will take over the entire workforceBut the facts say there will be a change.
And more people require more work, that will never changeThe population is growing. More and more people are entering the workforce.
See above ^^^^^The number of jobs, if growing at all, is growing incrementally.
You are not paying attention, our workforce today is depleted, unemployment is historically low, we have let bureaucracy ruin the law of supply and demand. You have to get out of the way, our Capitalist system is the best in the history of the world.There will be a point in which there are hundreds of thousands of people without work.
If you continue down this road of delusional thinking there will be a very bloody revolutionWe will either come up with a way to feed and house them, or there will be a bloody revolution.
So you're scared, that's your thesis?Gobbledygook. That's all you have? Gebbirish? Never in history has production been automated by intelligent, autonomous systems as today. Machinery in general, has always needed a human operator. With the advancement of cybernetics in the 1970s, there was an unprecedented loss of office workers. An administrative department in the 1940s and 50s, looked like a factory, full of workers, typing and filing records, copying documents by hand on typewriters. All of that changed with computers and Xerox.
With the further development of autonomous, intelligent systems, it's self-evident even to big-money capitalists like Musk and others, that the only way for capitalism to survive is through a massive government intervention i.e. bailout, in the form of a UBI (Universal Basic Income) or even a UI/UHI (Universal High Income), paid monthly by the government.
You can pretend if it makes you feel better, that advanced automation and AI replacing most if not all of wage labor isn't going to force society to adopt a non-profit system of production, but anyone able to think rationally will come to terms with the truth. Advanced automation and artificial intelligence is the end of capitalism and the beginning of the socialist age. Hopefully the transition between both economic systems will be bloodless, without violence.
That's your moronic assumption, not my thesis, but yours. The solution to the elimination of wage labor by advanced, 21st-century automation and AI, is high-tech, marketless socialism.So you're scared, that's your thesis?
It could have been stated in one sentence.
Again, the point I made which you mocked mercilessly is that this is the precise same opinion by many when the Industrial Age hit. How about internet? Video game systems were hacked, the music industry was impacted by Napster etc. These are exponentially more dangerous to industries and workers than A.I is at the moment.That's your moronic assumption, not my thesis, but yours. The solution to the elimination of wage labor by advanced, 21st-century automation and AI, is high-tech, marketless socialism.
Not only are socialists aware that socialism is the only solution to the elimination of wage labor by advanced automation and AI, but most billionaires and economic experts recognize that the only way for capitalist markets to continue functioning is through a massive government intervention that bails out the capitalists by generating an artificial, unproductive customer base of monthly welfare recipients.Change is inevitable, always the case. That doesn’t necessitate robots will take over the entire workforce
And more people require more work, that will never change
See above ^^^^^
You are not paying attention, our workforce today is depleted, unemployment is historically low, we have let bureaucracy ruin the law of supply and demand. You have to get out of the way, our Capitalist system is the best in the history of the world.
If you continue down this road of delusional thinking there will be a very bloody revolution
RANK | PARENT | SUBSIDY VALUE![]() | NUMBER OF AWARDS |
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1 | Boeing | $15,496,865,703 | 958 |
2 | Intel | $8,421,707,656 | 135 |
3 | Ford Motor | $7,742,056,086 | 703 |
4 | General Motors | $7,524,714,800 | 792 |
5 | Micron Technology | $6,790,131,915 | 21 |
6 | Amazon.com | $5,823,705,434 | 460 |
7 | Alcoa | $5,727,691,764 | 134 |
8 | Cheniere Energy | $5,617,152,523 | 43 |
9 | Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry Company) | $4,820,110,112 | 74 |
10 | Venture Global LNG | $4,338,702,441 | 8 |
11 | Texas Instruments | $4,286,328,869 | 69 |
12 | Volkswagen | $3,977,630,513 | 217 |
13 | Sempra Energy | $3,828,022,782 | 51 |
14 | NRG Energy | $3,415,751,518 | 266 |
15 | NextEra Energy | $3,008,691,129 | 116 |
16 | Sasol | $2,836,049,845 | 72 |
17 | Tesla Inc. | $2,829,855,494 | 114 |
18 | Stellantis | $2,795,436,436 | 213 |
19 | Walt Disney | $2,543,219,673 | 265 |
20 | Nucor | $2,538,761,123 | 176 |
21 | Iberdrola | $2,380,558,984 | 110 |
22 | Rivian Automotive Inc. | $2,364,054,012 | 7 |
23 | Hyundai Motor | $2,349,743,470 | 18 |
24 | Oracle | $2,272,418,288 | 96 |
25 | Shell PLC | $2,211,676,001 | 132 |
26 | Mubadala Investment Company | $2,124,035,097 | 62 |
27 | Nike | $2,104,917,829 | 153 |
28 | Meta Platforms Inc. | $2,098,261,272 | 82 |
29 | Toyota | $2,071,010,689 | 239 |
30 | Alphabet Inc. | $2,054,325,527 | 125 |
31 | Brookfield Corporation | $1,979,408,388 | 288 |
32 | Paramount Global | $1,974,249,897 | 342 |
33 | Comcast | $1,927,402,844 | 405 |
34 | Exxon Mobil | $1,917,119,478 | 241 |
35 | Samsung Electronics | $1,891,136,597 | 41 |
36 | Apple Inc. | $1,845,004,670 | 63 |
37 | Nissan | $1,842,814,165 | 98 |
38 | Berkshire Hathaway | $1,830,986,253 | 1,200 |
39 | Summit Power | $1,783,593,414 | 6 |
40 | JPMorgan Chase | $1,740,972,699 | 1,151 |
41 | Energy Transfer | $1,736,836,843 | 175 |
42 | Cleveland-Cliffs | $1,705,497,604 | 129 |
43 | Southern Company | $1,694,958,172 | 45 |
44 | General Electric | $1,645,135,367 | 958 |
45 | Vornado Realty Trust | $1,623,857,336 | 33 |
46 | Duke Energy | $1,580,421,869 | 86 |
47 | Wolfspeed Inc. | $1,563,595,610 | 64 |
48 | General Atomics | $1,510,875,891 | 112 |
49 | IBM Corp. | $1,497,901,697 | 368 |
50 | Lockheed Martin | $1,462,674,082 | 325 |
51 | OGE Energy | $1,427,570,182 | 15 |
52 | SCS Energy | $1,419,011,796 | 5 |
53 | Corning Inc. | $1,391,603,359 | 401 |
54 | Panasonic | $1,384,147,584 | 61 |
55 | Microsoft | $1,366,243,159 | 113 |
56 | Sagamore Development | $1,320,000,000 | 2 |
57 | Northrop Grumman | $1,284,014,883 | 285 |
58 | Vingroup | $1,254,000,000 | 1 |
59 | Continental AG | $1,244,875,478 | 111 |
60 | RTX Corporation | $1,193,950,954 | 797 |
61 | CF Industries | $1,134,394,215 | 131 |
62 | Valero Energy | $1,053,812,692 | 207 |
63 | Dow Inc. | $1,049,354,213 | 640 |
64 | AES Corp. | $1,039,510,135 | 136 |
65 | Air Products & Chemicals | $1,025,557,482 | 88 |
66 | Exelon | $986,892,877 | 98 |
67 | Pyramid Companies | $973,565,278 | 93 |
68 | SK Holdings | $960,550,283 | 8 |
69 | SkyWest | $944,296,654 | 339 |
70 | Centene | $916,607,054 | 60 |
71 | Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. | $900,000,000 | 1 |
72 | Apollo Global Management | $897,750,089 | 594 |
73 | Delta Air Lines | $871,485,833 | 13 |
74 | Jefferies Financial Group | $871,137,335 | 16 |
75 | SK Hynix | $866,700,000 | 2 |
76 | Bayer | $852,475,226 | 217 |
77 | Honda | $849,832,301 | 93 |
78 | Shin-Etsu Chemical | $828,683,936 | 106 |
79 | Enterprise Products Partners | $826,988,371 | 89 |
80 | SunEdison | $817,425,725 | 115 |
81 | Goldman Sachs | $800,873,386 | 253 |
82 | Bank of America | $798,426,128 | 956 |
83 | E.ON | $786,865,473 | 40 |
84 | Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. | $786,835,708 | 219 |
85 | EDF-Electricite de France | $774,590,441 | 36 |
86 | Triple Five Worldwide | $748,000,000 | 4 |
87 | EDP-Energias de Portugal | $733,674,868 | 14 |
88 | Related Companies | $714,675,504 | 8 |
89 | Koch Industries | $683,066,388 | 510 |
90 | Caithness Energy | $672,688,888 | 30 |
91 | Dell Technologies | $658,417,951 | 185 |
92 | Wells Fargo | $657,333,216 | 542 |
93 | FedEx | $647,035,546 | 633 |
94 | Entergy | $638,533,387 | 235 |
95 | OCI N.V. | $627,879,406 | 5 |
96 | Eli Lilly | $623,326,368 | 79 |
97 | Chevron Phillips Chemical | $619,839,444 | 20 |
98 | Bedrock Detroit | $618,000,000 | 1 |
99 | Dominion Energy | $615,436,089 | 79 |
You're a moron for appealing to old, pathetic, Cold War capitalist propaganda, death-toll arguments as if that somehow invalidates socialism. As a capitalist boot-licker, you have no moral high ground upon which to stand and point your crooked, feculent finger at socialists, being that capitalism has its own mountain of dead rotting corpses under its filthy, stinky feet.Marxism murdered hundreds of millions more than any other ideology in human history.
You are a carbon producer, as such, your life represents a source of pollution to the elites, and you are eating up all their precious natural resources to boot.
Idiot.
Most companies get bail outs, and subsidies because they offer value. Lazy do nothings who offer jack shit aren't going to be getting UBI so they can sit home playing Xbox. The only folks who promote the "inevitability" of this socialist utopia are the lazy ones who know that they ultimately aren't going to amount to shit, in a competitive world.Not only are socialists aware that socialism is the only solution to the elimination of wage labor by advanced automation and AI, but most billionaires and economic experts recognize that the only way for capitalist markets to continue functioning is through a massive government intervention that bails out the capitalists by generating an artificial, unproductive customer base of monthly welfare recipients.
The government will essentially hand out checks to the American public, hoping to preserve the capitalist market.
That's socialism extending the life of capitalism for a few more decades. The UBI and UI are capitalism on life-support, connected to a respirator, in the ICU.
Your ignorant poop-heads, continue to accuse socialists of wanting a "nanny state" when ironically, it's the capitalists who are most dependent upon the so-called "nanny state". The big-money capitalists are the biggest free-loader parasites in society:
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RANK PARENT SUBSIDY VALUE NUMBER OF AWARDS 1 Boeing $15,496,865,703 958 2 Intel $8,421,707,656 135 3 Ford Motor $7,742,056,086 703 4 General Motors $7,524,714,800 792 5 Micron Technology $6,790,131,915 21 6 Amazon.com $5,823,705,434 460 7 Alcoa $5,727,691,764 134 8 Cheniere Energy $5,617,152,523 43 9 Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry Company) $4,820,110,112 74 10 Venture Global LNG $4,338,702,441 8 11 Texas Instruments $4,286,328,869 69 12 Volkswagen $3,977,630,513 217 13 Sempra Energy $3,828,022,782 51 14 NRG Energy $3,415,751,518 266 15 NextEra Energy $3,008,691,129 116 16 Sasol $2,836,049,845 72 17 Tesla Inc. $2,829,855,494 114 18 Stellantis $2,795,436,436 213 19 Walt Disney $2,543,219,673 265 20 Nucor $2,538,761,123 176 21 Iberdrola $2,380,558,984 110 22 Rivian Automotive Inc. $2,364,054,012 7 23 Hyundai Motor $2,349,743,470 18 24 Oracle $2,272,418,288 96 25 Shell PLC $2,211,676,001 132 26 Mubadala Investment Company $2,124,035,097 62 27 Nike $2,104,917,829 153 28 Meta Platforms Inc. $2,098,261,272 82 29 Toyota $2,071,010,689 239 30 Alphabet Inc. $2,054,325,527 125 31 Brookfield Corporation $1,979,408,388 288 32 Paramount Global $1,974,249,897 342 33 Comcast $1,927,402,844 405 34 Exxon Mobil $1,917,119,478 241 35 Samsung Electronics $1,891,136,597 41 36 Apple Inc. $1,845,004,670 63 37 Nissan $1,842,814,165 98 38 Berkshire Hathaway $1,830,986,253 1,200 39 Summit Power $1,783,593,414 6 40 JPMorgan Chase $1,740,972,699 1,151 41 Energy Transfer $1,736,836,843 175 42 Cleveland-Cliffs $1,705,497,604 129 43 Southern Company $1,694,958,172 45 44 General Electric $1,645,135,367 958 45 Vornado Realty Trust $1,623,857,336 33 46 Duke Energy $1,580,421,869 86 47 Wolfspeed Inc. $1,563,595,610 64 48 General Atomics $1,510,875,891 112 49 IBM Corp. $1,497,901,697 368 50 Lockheed Martin $1,462,674,082 325 51 OGE Energy $1,427,570,182 15 52 SCS Energy $1,419,011,796 5 53 Corning Inc. $1,391,603,359 401 54 Panasonic $1,384,147,584 61 55 Microsoft $1,366,243,159 113 56 Sagamore Development $1,320,000,000 2 57 Northrop Grumman $1,284,014,883 285 58 Vingroup $1,254,000,000 1 59 Continental AG $1,244,875,478 111 60 RTX Corporation $1,193,950,954 797 61 CF Industries $1,134,394,215 131 62 Valero Energy $1,053,812,692 207 63 Dow Inc. $1,049,354,213 640 64 AES Corp. $1,039,510,135 136 65 Air Products & Chemicals $1,025,557,482 88 66 Exelon $986,892,877 98 67 Pyramid Companies $973,565,278 93 68 SK Holdings $960,550,283 8 69 SkyWest $944,296,654 339 70 Centene $916,607,054 60 71 Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. $900,000,000 1 72 Apollo Global Management $897,750,089 594 73 Delta Air Lines $871,485,833 13 74 Jefferies Financial Group $871,137,335 16 75 SK Hynix $866,700,000 2 76 Bayer $852,475,226 217 77 Honda $849,832,301 93 78 Shin-Etsu Chemical $828,683,936 106 79 Enterprise Products Partners $826,988,371 89 80 SunEdison $817,425,725 115 81 Goldman Sachs $800,873,386 253 82 Bank of America $798,426,128 956 83 E.ON $786,865,473 40 84 Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. $786,835,708 219 85 EDF-Electricite de France $774,590,441 36 86 Triple Five Worldwide $748,000,000 4 87 EDP-Energias de Portugal $733,674,868 14 88 Related Companies $714,675,504 8 89 Koch Industries $683,066,388 510 90 Caithness Energy $672,688,888 30 91 Dell Technologies $658,417,951 185 92 Wells Fargo $657,333,216 542 93 FedEx $647,035,546 633 94 Entergy $638,533,387 235 95 OCI N.V. $627,879,406 5 96 Eli Lilly $623,326,368 79 97 Chevron Phillips Chemical $619,839,444 20 98 Bedrock Detroit $618,000,000 1 99 Dominion Energy $615,436,089 79
Yeah. Sure. Pay no attention to the mass graves. It's still a pretty good idea...You're a moron for appealing to old, pathetic, Cold War capitalist propaganda, death-toll arguments as if that somehow invalidates socialism. As a capitalist boot-licker, you have no moral high ground upon which to stand and point your crooked, feculent finger at socialists, being that capitalism has its own mountain of dead rotting corpses under its filthy, stinky feet.
Advanced technology will take tens of millions of jobs. It will force us, by necessity, not necessarily through a violent, bloody revolution, to adopt a non-profit, marketless production system. We might not call it "socialism", due to our American culture, and history, but it will be essentially socialism in principle and practice.I am no commie. I have done well in our capitalist society.
But the facts say there will be a change.
The population is growing. More and more people are entering the workforce.
The number of jobs, if growing at all, is growing incrementally.
There will be a point in which there are hundreds of thousands of people without work. We will either come up with a way to feed and house them, or there will be a bloody revolution.
You're a brainwashed, working-class shithead, defending the capitalist parasites who exploit and enslave you. It's the working class, that deserves the government services and resources, not the wealthy, capitalist parasites who live off of their labor. Your mind is so warped and skewed, that you just don't see the irony of your criticism. The working-class are the ones who actually create value with their labor.Most companies get bail outs, and subsidies because they offer value. Lazy do nothings who offer jack shit aren't going to be getting UBI so they can sit home playing Xbox. The only folks who promote the "inevitability" of this socialist utopia are the lazy ones who know that they ultimately aren't going to amount to shit, in a competitive world.
Try business owner, and landlord.You're a brainwashed, working-class shithead, defending the capitalist parasites who exploit and enslave you. It's the working class, that deserves the government services and resources, not the wealthy, capitalist parasites who live off of their labor. Your mind is so warped and skewed, that you just don't see the irony of your criticism. The working-class are the ones who actually create value with their labor.
Advanced automation and artificial intelligence is going to eliminate most wages, within the next twenty years and when that happens, that's the end of capitalism, unless the government intervenes and provides everyone a UBI or UI. Without wages, there's no paying consumer. I'm against the UBI and UI because I see it as a ploy to unnecessarily extend capitalism, when it should be dead and buried in the cemetery, along with feudalism.
Socialism is inevitable because it doesn't need wages, paying consumers, or markets. It's the successor of capitalism, just as capitalism was the successor of feudalism.
Class warfare is bloody. All you have are silly Cold War death toll arguments, in your stupid attempt to invalidate socialism. Capitalism enslaved, colonized, and slaughtered a lot more people than communism, but that's irrelevant. This thread is about economics, not the history of war or imperialism. All you disingenuous shitheads have are old, worn-out Cold War capitalist propaganda. Here is what CIA operatives have to say about that:Yeah. Sure. Pay no attention to the mass graves. It's still a pretty good idea...