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Jiang says AI will be dystopian rather than emancipatory: it will worsen life by driving unemployment and expanding surveillance power.
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Jiang says AI will degrade over time and that its practical economic effect will be to eliminate large numbers of white-collar jobs without delivering a matching improvement in the real economy.
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Akela argues that any manufacturing revival promised through tariffs will arrive mainly through automation rather than restored labor demand, so AI-driven competition with China will likely intensify unemployment rather than relieve it.
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Jiang answers that mass unemployment creates political pressure for war because sending displaced people into military conflict functions as a blunt social-management solution.
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"...going to make our lives worse. It's going to cause massive unemployment. It's going to create this massive surveillance state apparatus. So another question..."
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"...will definitely reduce the number of jobs. It will cause massive unemployment. Interesting."
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"I think one thing is absolutely for sure, too, as AI increases its usefulness, these tariffs, these supposed jobs that are coming back to..."
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"That's why you need war. Yeah. You probably think most unemployed people, when you send them, you send them off to war, right?"
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"you have unemployment, and it's possible that you have protests happening in China because of the collapse of the economy. Okay? So, that is..."
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"...rebuild their ai and robotic space so there'll be lots of unemployment and various other things um now uh so i believe that china..."
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"...You create a deflationary force, which is AI robotics, which creates unemployment. Or you get the price of oil down. And so when you..."
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"...is becoming much more toxic. Okay? Good. What else? Good. Yes. Unemployment is going up. Well, not only that, but people's attitude towards work..."
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"And therefore you have all these issues arise. Greater unemployment. Greater debt. No one's really working. Okay. So that's the idea of financialization. And..."
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