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Inside the AI memory machine

The Vergecast

CHAPTER

The Insidious Implications of Capitalism

Capital, which depends on labor, actually grows at the expense of labor. Even as it increases the pool of labor, that is, it creates an ever larger underclass of people who can be pulled into the production process. What that creates is an ever larger working class, which is the only thing that can organize to depose the capitalist class just like the capitalist class deposed the monarchy.

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