Odd that when demographic decline in China is leading to the prospect of higher wages there, we witness the counter-prospect of massive unemployment via AI-automation everywhere.
Odd that when the North’s techno-solutionism is called into question, pressures mount that the North, as a matter of climate justice, fund massive climate adaptation in the South.
Odd that when just as we better understand that economic growth was and is an engine of global environmental destruction, economic growth has slowed down anyway over the last half century because of real declines in real production and productivity.
Odd that when generative AI threatens human creativity, it’s precisely at the moment online cultures are “far more inventive and daring than the arts, both formally and in terms of the ideas it presents.” (Dean Kissick in The Drift).
Odd that the calls for breaking up Amazon Inc. because of its monopoly power and anti-competitive practices are made by those whose goal is nothing like a competitive market society. Odd that current capitalist pathologies are said to arise because the capitalism of market productivity has disappeared.
Odder that it’s all about odds.
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