Why Leftists Love Bullsh*t Jobs is an infrared live stream from Feb 23, 2023.
Notes
- Discussion about free time and automation
- McDonald's ultimatum: Automate all jobs or be abolished
- Truckers face automation, we must respond by reaching them
- All labor can be automated eventually
- We must accelerate the forces of production
- Everyone should have enough free time that every American could master Hegel
- On the "wheel conspiracy"
- Marxism should be techno-futurist
- The future isn't a "return to nature" or a rolling back of the forces of production
- Real work is what's needed, we're not anti-work, nor are we pro-bullshit jobs
- Mecha tankies utilize automation to carry out real work with less human hard labor
- Towards a physically exploitative work (in the thermodynamic sense) versus a capitalistic exploitation of labor (exploitation of surplus value)
- Intensification of work (thanks to technological innovations) will occur
- Deng Xiaoping type beat