The whole “learn to code” push was always about flooding the market with labor to drive down wages. Every industry that starts a massive PR campaign to draw in high school graduates is doing it because the capitalist class wants cheaper labor.
I do believe that Obama legit thought it was a way for people to transition from blue collar work to white collar in an era where the US was clearly outsourcing the nasty stuff to china while holding the better jobs back for Americans. That has changed drastically with the advent of AI, and will only get worse.
Those of you who feel displaced from your profession, I hope you’ll begin looking at other ways to support yourselves in earnest, because no one is coming to save you. I’m a victim of our new reality as well, and fully understand that it’s adapt or live in a van down by the river. I haven’t figured it out yet. Good luck to all.
The worst thing is that having a large workforce of engineers is actually an incredible advantage.
Too bad it has no effect when youre as deindustrialized and neo liberalism is the guiding hand of society.
Paralleling this with China actually having socially beneficial projects for its technocrat base to do rather than building the next ubereats to monopolize another area of the economy.
They want all the upsides of slaves and none of the downsides, much like how they prefer to lease assets instead of owning them because then they have deferred responsibilities.
With slaves you have all of the costs of maintaining and housing and feeding them and giving them basic medical care. Letting them die is a huge burden of cost and loss of investment. You have to cover at least their bare subsistence.
With Proletarians you don’t even have to do that. You can pay less than subsistence as the reserve body of labor replenishes itself through reproduction. Thus you can squeeze all the value from someone then toss them aside for the next. You can let a percentage of your workers fall into health issues and die without any ability to afford care. You can let a bunch of them become evicted and houseless, and eventually die on the streets. There’s another worker there to pick up where the last one left off.
This is a big reason why capitalists don’t openly use mass enslavement anymore, and why the south lost the civil war. It was too expensive and inefficient compared to proletarian workforces. The slavery that does get used is subsidized by the state, so that the employers get prison laborers for cheap without any of the costs associated with maintaining them.
They want all the upsides of slaves and none of the downsides
This was the exact rationale for the Nazis’ program of “extermination through work” and is why Cesaire was absolutely correct to say that at the end of capitalism lies Hitler.
The whole “learn to code” push was always about flooding the market with labor to drive down wages.
When Boomers give advice on what career to pursue, it’s a really bad sign for that field.
The whole “learn to code” push was always about flooding the market with labor to drive down wages. Every industry that starts a massive PR campaign to draw in high school graduates is doing it because the capitalist class wants cheaper labor.
I do believe that Obama legit thought it was a way for people to transition from blue collar work to white collar in an era where the US was clearly outsourcing the nasty stuff to china while holding the better jobs back for Americans. That has changed drastically with the advent of AI, and will only get worse.
Those of you who feel displaced from your profession, I hope you’ll begin looking at other ways to support yourselves in earnest, because no one is coming to save you. I’m a victim of our new reality as well, and fully understand that it’s adapt or live in a van down by the river. I haven’t figured it out yet. Good luck to all.
The worst thing is that having a large workforce of engineers is actually an incredible advantage.
Too bad it has no effect when youre as deindustrialized and neo liberalism is the guiding hand of society.
Paralleling this with China actually having socially beneficial projects for its technocrat base to do rather than building the next ubereats to monopolize another area of the economy.
the capitalist class wants slaves
They want all the upsides of slaves and none of the downsides, much like how they prefer to lease assets instead of owning them because then they have deferred responsibilities.
With slaves you have all of the costs of maintaining and housing and feeding them and giving them basic medical care. Letting them die is a huge burden of cost and loss of investment. You have to cover at least their bare subsistence.
With Proletarians you don’t even have to do that. You can pay less than subsistence as the reserve body of labor replenishes itself through reproduction. Thus you can squeeze all the value from someone then toss them aside for the next. You can let a percentage of your workers fall into health issues and die without any ability to afford care. You can let a bunch of them become evicted and houseless, and eventually die on the streets. There’s another worker there to pick up where the last one left off.
This is a big reason why capitalists don’t openly use mass enslavement anymore, and why the south lost the civil war. It was too expensive and inefficient compared to proletarian workforces. The slavery that does get used is subsidized by the state, so that the employers get prison laborers for cheap without any of the costs associated with maintaining them.
No longer and capitalists are freaking out (they are still not going to lessen the exploitation).
This was the exact rationale for the Nazis’ program of “extermination through work” and is why Cesaire was absolutely correct to say that at the end of capitalism lies Hitler.