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What happens when everything gets automated under capitalism? Does it just become socialism by that point? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I could only think while reading his book that there's little difference between tech oligarchs charging rents for data centers and railroad barons charging rents for access to the railroad. He doesn't do anything to address this obvious historical antecedent.

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