Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec...
by kiba on Saturday July 05, 2025 @10:43PM
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Georgism is a prescription on removing unwarranted monopolies and taxing unreproducible privileges.
Tech companies are the same old story. They are monopolies like the rail companies of old. Ditto for whatever passes as AGI. They're just trying to become monopolists.
Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec...
by 0xbadcafebee on Monday July 07, 2025 @12:35AM
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...yes, and? Every capitalist company wants to become a monopoly. It's just not always easy to do so. We have dozens of companies in the USA that have been trying to become monopolies for years, with tons of reporting on it. Only tech companies get this intense scrutiny. I feel like it's some weird quirk of human fear, like how people fear planes the most even though they're by far the safest mode of transportation. People are just wigged out more by tech companies than grocery stores, coffee shops, pharmacies or telecommunications companies.
Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec...
by saubeidl on Sunday July 06, 2025 @02:55AM
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Capitalism with computers is technofeudalism. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/yanis-varoufak...
Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec...
by CHUCKEESH on Monday July 07, 2025 @07:34PM
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Tech changes often stir debate about fairness and control. You might want to look into how tools like Mails AI can streamline policy discussions or outreach, making complex topics easier to navigate. It’s helped simplify some tricky conversations I’ve seen, making them more approachable.
1) Inequality will be exacerbated regardless of AGI. inequality is a policy decision, AGI is just a tool subject to policy. 2) Democratic agency is only held by elected representatives and civil servants, and their agency is not eroded by the tool of AGI. 3) techno-feudalism isn't a real thing, it's just a scary word for "capitalism with computers".
> The classical Social Contract-rooted in human labor as the foundation of economic participation-must be renegotiated to prevent mass disenfranchisement.
Maybe go back and bring that up around the invention of the cotton gin, the stocking frame, the engine, or any other technological invention which "disenfranchised" people who had their labor supplanted.
> This paper calls for a redefined economic framework that ensures AGI-driven prosperity is equitably distributed through mechanisms such as universal AI dividends, progressive taxation, and decentralized governance. The time for intervention is now-before intelligence itself becomes the most exclusive form of capital.
1) nobody's going to equitably distribute jack shit if it makes money. They will hoard it the way the powerful have always hoarded money. No government, commune, sewing circle, etc has ever changed that and it won't in the future. 2) The idea that you're going to set tax policy based on something like achieving a social good means you're completely divorced from American politics. 3) We already have decentralized governance, it's called a State. I don't recommend trying to change it.