Raymond Shannon

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Cake day: August 12th, 2024

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  • The labor market is indeed regulated by that supply and demand. That is a foregone conclusion. However, that doesn’t guarantee necessarily higher wages and thus higher quality of life, proportionately speaking.

    That itself is a struggle over whether “general profit”, after accounting for wages, is reinvested for the social needs, such as housing, food and water, education.

    Assuming that “general profit” (savings) + wages (needed for laborers’ means of subsistence) = value created.

    And assuming wages are sufficient enough for higher quality of life.

    But put into the equation the landlords, the shareholders, industrialists that dominate our world by virtue of owning the property that shapes it, who want to depress wages, if it means more “general profit”, and direct their savings towards more capital accumulation





  • Raymond Shannon@lemmy.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlYup this is the term of AI
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    12 days ago

    The usage and existence of AI itself is a meme to me.

    Besides, according to textbook definition

    1. an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.
    1. an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.

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  • Well, let me tell you this.

    If we didn’t presuppose we had development of internet as we have, we might not be able to communicate

    If we didn’t presuppose your mankind has developed long enough to have the brain, you might not be alive, at least as a human

    This basic presupposition we have is materialism, which is that material reality and how we deal/evolve with it (eg. economy involving natural resources, nature outside of us, our human body, animals, plants, food, wood, stone, iron) comes first as a basis for our survival. Ideas come second, which influence back at materialism.

    This materialism is the requirement for us to think of culture, hierarchies, and what not.