Bill Gates has finally acknowledged a truth that capitalists prefer to ignore: as AI and automation advance, corporations can reduce their reliance on human workers, yet those workers still need jobs to survive. This dystopian paradox manifests as corporations accumulate vast fixed capital while employing fewer people, leading to increasing labor insecurities. The state, ostensibly aiding automation's growth, is simultaneously crafting systems to manage this emerging class of excess workers. Gates proposes measures to protect jobs, but under capitalism, preserving employment becomes essential simply for survival, distorting the very essence of technological progress into a means of perpetuating exploitation rather than liberating humanity from labor.
The Guardrails Are a Cage: AI, Surplus Humanity, and the Technofascist State
Hundreds of economists warn that artificial intelligence could displace millions of workers, but their petition mistakes a ruling-class offensive for a technical oversight. AI is already being used to reduce workforces, intensify surveillance, automate discipline, exclude applicants, restrict public benefits, and strengthen military and counterinsurgency systems. The real danger is not that machines may escape human control, but that monopoly capital is using them to reduce its dependence on labor while expanding the apparatus needed to manage those it renders surplus. Against this technofascist future, workers are organizing to seize control over deployment, data, productivity, and power.
Of Rope and Revolution: The Thug, the Lumpen, and the World That Made Them
When labor is outlawed and life is disposable, strangulation becomes political economy By Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information | August 1, 2025 I. Of Beggars and Bandits: The Specter Beneath Civilization History, when written by the victorious pickpockets of the world-market, is quick to condemn those who steal outside its formal registers. And so we... Continue Reading →