#AI: #Profit vs. #Freedom
by Richard D. #Wolff
[AI: Profit vs. Freedom - CounterPunch.org](https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/25/ai-profit-vs-freedom/)
[Introduction: AI, #Capitalism, and the Working Class Dilemma
Capitalist Decision-Making in Technological Integration
Profit-Driven AI Adoption: Capitalists' Perspective
Example: AI's Impact on #Employee #Productivity and #Job Reduction
The Employee-Driven Approach: Redefining AI Implementation
Balancing Output and #Leisure: A New Paradigm
Challenging the Notion of AI-Induced Job Losses
The Role of #Technology in Capitalism's Profit Model
#Worker #Cooperatives: An Alternative System
#Democratizing Technological Choices for a New Economic Landscape
Conclusion: Rethinking AI Integration in Capitalism's Framework](https://chat.openai.com/c/b1aa8485-da3b-407e-b8f2-40ea0831b58e)
[LeftLinks - Socialist Project](https://socialistproject.ca/about/leftlinks/)
[Decolonising Development with Frantz #Fanon - The Bullet](https://socialistproject.ca/2023/09/decolonising-development-frantz-fanon/)
[Το των Ελλήνων όνομα πεποίηκε μηκέτι του γένους αλλά της διανοίας δοκείν είναι, και μάλλον Έλληνας καλείσθαι των της παιδεύσεως της ημετέρας ή των της κοινής φύσεως μετέχοντας.
#Ισοκράτης, 436-338 π.Χ., Αθηναίος ρήτορας
#Law is concerned with #freedom, the worthiest and holiest thing in man, the thing man must know if it is to have obligatory force for him.
— [#Hegel’s Philosophy of #Right, § 215 – Ethical Life / Civil Society / Administration of Justice / Determinate Law](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/pr/prcivils.htm)
[#Refugees
by Brian Bilston
They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way
(now read from bottom to top)
© Brian #Bilston
With kind permission of the poet](https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/poem/refugees/)
The #revolution begins by asking: what sort of #promises do #free men and women make to one another, and how, by making them, do we begin to make another world?
[David #Graeber - Hope in Common - Infoshop](https://web.archive.org/web/20190925155914/http://www.infoshop.org/hope-in-common/)
"#Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies."
Friend, swan of dark water,
I will remember this kind of freedom!
Above mountains close, yet unlike any we know here
I had not seen this path as one of many, after all, a way across -
and they will welcome you in their way,
for you have opened another door in the sky:
Oo Sa Gi.
Friend of dark wing,
I will remember your melody
of learning to walk in the air.
Louisa John #Krol - Black Swan
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Φίλε, κύκνε του μαύρου νερου
θα θυμαμαι αυτου του ειδους την ελευθερια!
πανω απο τα κοντινα βουνα, ομως ανομοια απο οτιδηποτε γνωριζουμε εδω
δεν είχα δει αυτο το μονοπατι ως ενα απο τα πολλα, εν τέλει, μια οδος για την αλλη πλευρα -
και θα σε καλοσωρίσουν με το τρόπο τους,
διοτι εχεις ανοιξει μια αλλη πορτα στον ουρανο:
Oo Sa Gi.
Φίλε του σκοτεινου φτερου,
θα θυμαμαι τη μελωδια σου
να μαθαίνεις να περπατας στον αερα.
Λουίζα Τζον #Κρολ - Μαύρος Κύκνος
♥∞♪☮☯☭Ⓐ☆ 🏴☠️🇵🇸🏴🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻❤️☀️💚🌿😍💚😍🍃
I don’t sing because I am happy; I’m happy because I sing.
— William #James
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I #know? 2. What #ought I to do? 3. What may I #hope?"
— Immanuel #Kant
#Law is concerned with #freedom, the worthiest and holiest thing in man, the thing man must know if it is to have obligatory force for him.
— [#Hegel’s Philosophy of #Right, § 215 – Ethical Life / Civil Society / Administration of Justice / Determinate Law] [at: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/pr/prcivils.htm]
“No #morality can be founded on #authority, even if the authority were #divine.”
— A. J. #Ayer, Essay on #Humanism
All #punishment is mischief. All punishment of itself is evil.
— Jeremy #Bentham, Principles of #Morals and #Legislation
Έτσι γίνεται φανερό, ότι τα προβλήματα της πολιτικής επιστήμης είναι και προβλήματα της
πολιτικής αγωγής και των πολιτικών και πολιτισμικών αξιών του κάθε #πολίτη.
— Κοσμάς Ψυχοπαίδης – Εισαγωγή στην Πολιτική Επιστήμη (παραδόσεις)
#Κομμουνισμός - «μια ένωση στην οποία η ελεύθερη ανάπτυξη του καθενός [ατόμου] είναι η προϋπόθεση για την ελεύθερη ανάπτυξη όλων».
— #Marx & #Engels, Manifesto (1848)
#Communism - “an association in which the free development of each [individual] is the condition for the free development of all.”
— #Marx & #Engels, Manifesto (1848)
Αρθρον 1. - Ο σκοπός οπού απ’ αρχής κόσμου οι άνθρωποι εσυμμαζώχθησαν από τα δάση την πρώτην φοράν, δια να κατοικήσουν όλοι μαζί, κτίζοντες χώρας και πόλεις, είναι δια να συμβοηθώνται και να ζώσιν ευτυχισμένοι, και όχι να συναντιτρώγονται ή να ρουφά το αίμα τους ένας.
— #Ρήγας #Βελεστινλής, “Τα Δίκαια του Ανθρώπου”
"The consistent #anarchist, then, should be a #socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat."
— Noam #Chomsky - In Daniel Guérin, #Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, 1970
"[…] Την δήμευσιν δεν την φοβείται αυτός που δεν έχει τίποτε, εκτός εάν έχης ανάγκην από αυτά τα σχισμένα κουρέλια μου και τα ολίγα βιβλία μου, που αποτελούν όλην την περιουσίαν μου. Την εξορίαν δεν την εννοώ, εγώ που δεν περιορίζομαι εις ένα τόπον, και δεν έχω ιδικόν μου ούτε το μέρος που τώρα κατοικώ, και κάθε μέρος είναι ιδικόν μου όπου και αν ευρεθώ ή μάλλον, κάθε μέρος είναι του Θεού, όπου εγώ είμαι ξένος και περαστικός. […]"
— Μέγας Βασίλειος
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of #patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble #war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
— Albert #Einstein