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  • ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory DoctorowEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I’m not a Leninist by any means. But on a mass scale, the need to grow for a Capitalist economy? Manifests itself in ways Lenin described as “Capitalist Imperialism”. If you only reach one chapter, the author says that’s Ch7, which becomes a short essay.

    Lenin Argues against Carl Kautsky’s assertion that such a prospect looks like grabbing Land. Lenin argues that Capitalism needs no such political arm directly, only ownership of the economy by a foreign body. Eventually investment capital runs out of fertile ground at home and must find new markets to control.

    As Russia’s economy stagnated, and the room for investment dried up, much of Putin’s moves were to open other countries to Russian Finance Capital. When that failed, taking new land became the fallback for having new oil and shipping investments. Not just land, but resources as Kautsky discussed.

    And here Doctorow breaks down how that looks for single firms in monopoly or oligopoly, specifically in the tech sector, and its drive to constantly " invent new markets". A perfect compliment.

    That’s what these data centers are - Empire. They will swallow your ability to compute. Moderate it. Control it. Direct it towards only their ends. Because at the end game, the most value extraction comes from not simply selling you a product, but selling you as a product to other businesses. Enshittification will continue until you can out-bid the corpos for your data sovereignty. Reverse Centaurs are easy to train, replace, and shift. Centaurs? Require actual investment, giving the worker some power.

    The need for control? Emerges organically from the consequences of noncompliance. In both the puppet-state in response to its international industrial overlords, or its alternative in direct management by a foreign state. The money must flow, the growth must happen, or the party is over for much broader than their own dinner table.

    The growth must happen, or the very laws of a market crush the entire society down to well below this peak. No more growth stocks in growth industries, just cutthroat competition from the same corpos that keep out upstarts… Until some shock ruins somebody’s bag, and we get a chance at something interesting like the tech sector used to be.

  • ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•united states of the americas
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    25 days ago

    This map is incomplete.

    • the 1968 coup that ousted President Fernando Belaúnde Terry from Peru

    • La Violencia in Colombia

    • the US economic Blockade of Guyana in the 1970s, along with several CIA interventions.

    • the US backed the Dictatorship in Surinam until a Coup in 1980, and sent military aid to support the regime through the resulting conflict.

    As for French Guiana - this may be our single exception, as the French did all the Horrors there, and the US “respected their claim”.

  • ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39C3)English
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    29 days ago

    Step 1 - raise awareness.

    Step 2 - gather active participants

    Step 3 - collectively do legal things that make life harder for anyone with the power to enact this, yet does not.

    Step 4 - repeat Step 3, making it clear why this is happening.

    Step 5 - make memes of the affair to further drive engagement.

    Step 5.1 (potentially American/Russian/etc Exclusive) - get declared a terrorist for doing a perfectly legal thing.

    Step 6 - build support structures and tools to mitigate consequences.

    Step 7 - keep going anyway, in spite of what consequences can be brought.

    Step 8 - profit build incremental victories to bolster the movement.