{"id":2087,"date":"2024-11-27T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2024-11-27T14:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:28:43","slug":"its-still-rapacious-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2024\/11\/27\/its-still-rapacious-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s still rapacious capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2024\/11\/26\/hawtch-hawtch\/\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The fact that AI can&#8217;t do your job, but that your boss can be convinced to fire you and replace you with the AI that can&#8217;t do your job, is the central fact of the 21st century labor market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s <em>the<\/em> central fact of contemporary labor, what with the resurgence of fascism, the retheming of jobs as gigs, and the casual evasion of hard-fought safeguards. But, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/06\/02\/generative-ai-and-rapacious-capitalism\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1809\">I&#8217;ve noted before<\/a>, it is a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Cory Doctorow: The fact that AI can&#8217;t do your job, but that your boss can be convinced to fire you and replace you with the AI that can&#8217;t do your job, is the central fact of the 21st century labor market. I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s the central fact of contemporary labor, what with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2024\/11\/27\/its-still-rapacious-capitalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s still rapacious capitalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[73,31],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump","tag-ai","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-xF","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}