Is rapidly accelerating
LLMs are going to nuke knowledge workers (the coffeeshop laptop girlies)
Soon robots are going replace many warehouse and industrial workers
What is to be done? Especially as it relates to labor-based organization, building a Republic of by and for the working class?
Automation cannot serve Two Masters
Dec 15 2024 Amazon Teamsters Strikes
Joseph Stalin's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" describes how when the Mode of production changes, the "relations of production" are driven into heightened contradiction. Kinda like how automation will force confrontation between We The People versus the robot owners.
This will open up New Modes
We will need to have Wise Economics and a Patriot economy to ensure that automation doesn't destroy our people
the ACP program directly addresses automation in two places, point 5 which is National Industrial Policy "...the promotion and development of advanced technology sectors such as high-tech manufacturing, computing, and artificial intelligence (AI)" as well as point 11 Accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution "...large-scale implementation of cybernetic technologies across the whole economy and the implementation of AI-driven national economic planning with the express aims of advancing national development, reducing the work week and laboring years, and improving objective indexes of general quality of life and happiness."