The Persistence of Power - Part 5: Automation and the End of Labor's Bargaining Power
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How automation threatens to eliminate the last constraint on elite power: human labor's negotiating leverage.
Automation
The Persistence of Power: Class Struggle Beyond Ideology
·143 words·1 min
Examining how class struggle persists across different economic systems and ideologies, from capitalism to socialism to emerging AI-driven automation.
Beyond the Hype Cycle: How a Viral Developer Post Exposes AI's Real Threat to Professional Identity
·1488 words·7 mins
A viral developer post exposed the raw professional dread around a new AI model—what it means for jobs, skills, and the future of software.
The Hidden Economics of Food
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What your dinner plate reveals about markets, power, and the future of work. A series exploring how everyday foods expose the hidden forces shaping our economy—from the care economy to corporate power, from automation to trade wars.
The Gearwork Prophets: Mechanical Minds Before the Machine Age
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Exploring the sophisticated mechanical inventions of ancient civilizations, from the Antikythera Mechanism to Zhang Heng's seismoscope, revealing a lost tradition of mechanical computation and automation.
Capitalism Unmasked - Part 19: The Myth of Technological Unemployment
·731 words·4 mins
Examining the fear of robots taking all jobs - why technological unemployment is a social choice, not an inevitable fate.
The Gravity Engine - Part 4: Barbagal Mill: Automation and the Cascade of Roman Power
·690 words·4 mins
The Barbagal Mill complex as an ancient example of automated industrial production using cascading water wheels.