Merican Expletivevism

Having caught up with Aaron Good’s American Exception and Devil’s Chess Club podcasts (free tier) I have some things to say in mild critique. One cannot challenge Aaron on anything essential to his main thesis, but there are some essential things needing critique. And I think my critique should boost his thesis. I’d wager he’d think not, but he’d wager badly 🤣! Anyway, he’s the PolSci expert, so I’ve probably got my work cut out for me today. Let’s see if I can manage it.

The only serious issue is that Aaron is highly ironically suffering from a case of US Exceptionalism himself (specifically USD exceptionist thinking), and regrettably as a result he perpetuates a few right-wing macroeconomic myths. Which ones? Here’s a shortlist:

• (Reich-wing Myth): The US dollar was a “global reserve currency.” — False, since redemption for USD was a voluntary arrangement, a completely unnecessary one when the alternative was a floating exchange rate. Aaron perhaps realizes this, but fails to see the USD was not a reserve currency in the past either, which is a subtle but very important thing to note for any aspiring anti-imperialist.
• (Reich-wing Myth): Deindustrialization was bad. — False. It was good, but the USA failed to reap the potentially massive benefits, except for the parasitic top Ten Percenters, which is not a deindustrialization issue, it is a backwards policy response issue. We do not want the war machine to get reindustrialized. We do not want our children to go back to factory work, thank you very much.${}^\ddagger$
• (Reich-wing Myth): Inflation bad. — False, inflation is good (de facto inescapable tax on hoarded currency), but it matters how it is generated. How it has been generated is horrifically bad — via government bond interest rate maintenance = basic income but only for people who already have money and in proportion to how much money they already have.
• (DumbDumb-leftwing Myth): We need more welfare. — False. Or false-ish let’s say. We do not need more welfare. What we need is more well-fare. We need more people getting compensated (that’s an evil thing called a “wage"🤣) for helping other people.
• (Reich-wing Myth): Tax payers are funding the wars. — False. No tax payer is involved, if they were it would be counterfeit.

${}^\ddagger$Not sure who the “we” is here, but I think we’ve got a few of us! Bit of nationalism in there which needs modulating later. Thing is, the “we” should include the Chinese and Vietnamese as well, who should not want to continue being the rest of the worlds factory workers. The Chinese (or some of them) have recognized this, I think, which is why they are wisely also moving much of their production “off shore”. But they are the smarter deindustrialists! This proves my point.

Spare me the nuance scoldings, I know them all. I’m just short on keystrokes, ok.

I’m sure Aaron would not want to think he perpetuates right-wing myths, but I submit that list to point out he does. But he’s an honest guy, like he’ll admit H.W. Bush is almost like a boy scout compared to most other recent POTUS’s, and he’ll admit Nixon did some good things in trying to reign in the CIA within the CIA. While not doing any rehab jobs on these 𖥐𖦪𖠢𖢧𖥣ꛘ𖨚 either.

What I appreciate about these realist takes from Aaron is that you get that vibe that he’s not going to just paint all conservatives with the same brush, and that he is well aware the distinctions matter. Nevertheless, he’ll point out Nixon and H.W. Bush were still deeply part of the gangster-mafia-zionist State we call the USA. And they are not even the Tony Soparano’s. According to Aaron, and I agree, there are no Tony Soprano’s. Or, I guess,the closest might be JFK and RFK?

Actually, I do not know who Tony Soprano is,${}^\dagger$ I just pick up a feeling he was some sort of “family man” sympathetic mobster? In other words, a complete fantasy, conjured up by the corporate entertainment cartel complex to sell advertising in prime time while making nasty “gangsta” behaviour seem “cool”. Is that not the case? Anyway, I don’t care, that’s what I’m going with.

${}^\dagger$For my monthly or weekly aculturating brainwashing and mind-control, I tend to go more for SciFi and weird stuff, like The Cohen Brothers, or Noah Hawley, or Paul Thomas Anderson. And All Blacks rugby — a losing AB team is pretty weird don’t you think, on top of how weird a gladiatorial sport like rugby is already? It’s hard to find good weird though. You cannot put China Mieville on the screen I reckon, probably shouldn’t even try.

Aaron Bad

A hope one day Aaron realizes how ꕷꖡꖹꘝꕯꕒ he is, advocating for the “goodness” of Bretton-Woods gold standard and whatnot. He is advocating gangster-piracy government, basically. Totally against his own thesis.

He does not know it of course, so I’m still able to get some education from his content without choking on neolib fumes, it’s just layered with cringe now, which is slightly uncomfortable for my neurons.

It’s depressingly ironic too, since he’ll interview Christian Parenti and nod along when Parenti points out people on the liberal-left are dupes and rubes for thinking the American empire is just a few rotten apples spoiling an otherwise Boy Scout and Girl Guide democratic system (or republic if you wannabe pedantic).

That critique of Parenti’s is correct of course, but sometimes you have to have the same curiosity and thick skin to question your own radical leftism, like when you still believe in the reich-wing Thatcherite talking point spew.

Aaron was regurgitating this vomit on an (otherwise good) episode on the JFK assassination within some journo by the name of Wiesek(sp?). They went full Austrian School right-wing on us, advocating a permanent vacation to New Hampshire (Bretton-Woods).

Let’s be clear: when you advocate the government redeem their scorepoints for gold, you are boosting deflation, fascism, unemployment, and things worse than any war or genocide you can possibly imagine.

Yeah, so maybe don’t do that?

Do I need to write a damn thesis on this, or a book no one will buy? Seems someone should.

Liberal Retardedness

I hear one is not supposed to use the R-word these days, but I did not get that memo. The sentiment is correct. The liberal Indie media is just as bad as the mainstream media in many ways. Just because a corporate tycoon is not paying your salary only inoculates you against one form of groupthink, the form you know you do not want to parrot. But the (I’d say fake) leftist-liberal media does us absolutely no good when repeating right-wing talking points, and boosting the neoliberal project.

The neoliberal project is not necessarily “small government” it is fascistic government to protect the ownership class, the investors, the property-owners and rentiers. The “super rich” to put it simply. All “deregulation” is massive regulation (failure to regulate by regulatory design.) It’s neoliberal doublespeak to call it “deregulation.” What it is amounts to regulations to immunize the mafia (capitalists) from democratic constraint, and instead provide big-as-in-bigbastard government protections for the mafia-plutocrats.

This is the proper take-away from all this recent JEE biz. Not the sex crimes. The corporate mafia do far worse than sex trafficking. They’ve killed young boys in quasi-satanic sex rituals for sure (by one reputable survivor’s account), but worse than that, they’ve killed your hope for a democracy. Although, treading more gently, one cannot place an easy relative scale of evil on such things. Human beings are weird and defy utilitarian calculus in this regard. One child’s life is worth more than millions of workers, since the workers can always have the option of unifying to protect themselves. But I hope you see my point. Why did the sex traffic rings come into existence in the first place?

And saying the government needs to get the government scorepoints “off the tax payers” is boosting this project massively. It is the other side to privatization putsch.

Why would a government, or think tank, or mainstream journalist, or Indie journalist, … anyone!… even yourself… be able to fool you into thinking public utilities & services should be privatized? A huge part of that is the myth that the tax payer is funding the government.

The truth is the exact reverse.

This arises every single day. I cannot get a day without hearing this Thatcherite vomit — unless I retreat to my physics research and stay away from Indie news consumption. It is so depressing. Today it was some fake-leftie-liberal outfit complaining about the hundreds of FBI staffers asked to comb through the JEE Files to redact any mention of DJT.

(The issue was “why no whistle-blowers?” — a point I will get back to in a minute.)

Good use of tax payers for MAGA benefits?🤣 Not a use of a single tax payer dollar though, which would be counterfeit.

Listen Liberal: It did not “cost the tax payers” a single dime… to do all this hard redacting soul-destroying “p̶u̶b̶l̶i̶c̶ DJT benefit work.” Are you all counterfeiting the currency now?

Listen Liberal: Please then do not spread reich-wing Thatcherite myths. There is no “tax payer funded” monopoly currency issuer, it is an inapplicable concept. When the government spends that funds the tax payer, not the other way around. When recipients of government spending (including welfare beneficiaries) spend their government scorepoints, say on rent or groceries, that’s funding the private sector, not the public sector. If you believe otherwise you’ll never have genuine “free” healthcare, GND, etc. The government cannot run out of Its own scorepoints (hence can always fully employ teachers, nurses, builders, etc), but can run out of qualified teachers, nurses, builders,. etc.

Listen Liberal: It’s like you liberals and fake-leftists just don’t want to win. You just want to score political points. See Whitney Webb’s — One Nation Under Blackmail, like The Devil’s Chess Club, you get a journalist-of-integrity view of how it is all just a game of political point scoring to the billionaires and power elites. Who can end up on top of the heap with the most government scorepoints or sex-slaves? Trample over innocent people to get there. The liberals are like this, just weaker players, “Don’t lose hope, just wait till we get our perverts on top of the heap. It’ll be UBI all around, total freedom to fantasize some justice has been granted! We promise!”

Listen Liberal: Governments need to get real resources to provision the public sector, not their own scorepoints. They need you and me to need their otherwise worthless scorepoints, that’s why the tax liability is imposed. Tax return (revenue ~ revenir ~ “return back to the issuer”) is a redemption operation, the government backing their promise to extinguish your tax liability.

Listen Liberal: When the government thus spends to hire the unemployed they generate by design they are reversing the damage caused by imposing tax liabilities, if they fail to run full employment it is a policy mistake. Full employment is not an inflation risk, since the private sector bid for unemployed labour is by definition ZERO. Issuing needless government bonds (interest rate floor maintenance) also is not funding the government, but is a massive source of continual inflation = basic income but only for people who already have money and in proportion to how much money they already have.

I hate to have to be using my time to make these nerdy points, but you aught to listen up Aaron, because it is far more destructive to go with the “tax payer funded” myth and the “benefits of a gold peg” than any genocide any time, in any place. So understand, this MMT education, for me, is not just a nerd debate about details of government fiscal policy operations, or how to fund a Green New Deal. No. It is about mass deaths on a scale worse than any holocaust in history. Just take a damn minute out to think about that please Aaron! Radical to radical. I’m not against your main thesis.

Gold Standard is for NASA

I think radiation shielding is the only decent use for the metal. It’s a mildly useful catalyst as far as I know, maybe good for some nanoscale niche “green energy” and biomedical applications (gold is “bio-compatible””) and REALLY not much good for anything ELSE other than detailed opto-electronics and whatnot.

We have a perfectly good currency anchor, our labour. We do not ever need anything else.

That said, gold is of tremendous beautiful use in encouraging piracy and fascism. Get people wanting a gold commodity peg and you generate all the more ꕒꗍꖀ𐝥ꗍꘝꕯꖡ folks K. Marx needed to exist in order to sell his books. (I’m not saying K. Marx was a pre-CIA CIA plant, but he was a useful idiot for the capitalists.)

((That is a wider topic I do not have the energy for today, but it gels with Aaron Good’s thesis; that plenty of soi dissant leftists are acting as useful idiots. Me too probably. Whenever we give the conservatives something to complain about but which is not necessary (like quite-a-lot-of welfare spending, or sex change surgery subsidies for military personal, or mandatory “DEI training”${}^\ast$ then we are shooting the working class and poor in the proverbial head. You don’t want to give needless fuel to the Tories, right behind them stoking the flames of war are the necons and fascists.))

${}^\ast$Why is DEI training ever needed in the first place?

Before you tut-tut me for being a marxist traitor, it might be worth noting that; (a) I have never been a marxist though have been labelled as such by haters, I just reject all ideological labels, they’re not useful, (b) Marxism has some useful ideas worth knowing (e.g., labour exploitation = bad, workers are the source of their own emancipation, &c.), (c) why are you bothering me anyway, I’m a nobody, go form your own opinions, (d) I’ve come across fools who say “Marx admired capitalism” and I wanna say somethin’ ‘bout that.

I doubt Marx admired capitalism, but whether he did or not it’s neither here nor there. Seems to me that old dead white German guy-with-a-fierce-beard-who-did-not-understand-money, admired what machine production systems could produce, at relatively low energy through-put compared to human manual labour.

But that’s not Capitalism. justsayin.

(Also, what’s to admire really? I’d prefer less factories, and more local crafts. We don’t need half the stuff we produce in factories to live decent lives. Thinking we do is a disease of Materialism. The Veblen critique I gather — status‑seeking through possessions and government scorepoints, rather than selfless altruism and socialistic activities.${}^\dagger$)

${}^\dagger$On the other hand, I am in favour of investment in fusion energy research. Just because it is cool. If we get sustainable non-polluting (fat chances) break-even, that’s a bonus. Just the science advance of getting a friggin’s star sitting on the Earth, will be a wonderful human achievement. Regardless of whether it can be a source of clean energy or not. What I am dead against is the hype and grift of the “boundless energy” promises. (I am still a neoluddite.) Total nonsense all that hype. Fusion reactors create nasty radiaoactive waste. We’re better off cutting back on electricity and using more solar and geothermal. This is an MMT issue. The incessant need for ever-more power (literal electricity power) is born of neoclassical economics where the government cannot fund stuff without robbing the “tax payer”. “Howso?” you ask. Well, sorry but that’s another essay. In short: it’s due to the false banking model closed-credit cycle “loanable fund” money myth plus the inflaton boogeyman.

It is not only gross ignorance to spread lies about the need for a gold peg, it is incompetent, it is advocating for piracy, it is regressive in ways more horrific than the Gaza genocide, by several orders of magnitude.

I wish someone would get this message to Aaron, so he could reflect upon it from one radical to another. To help him stop swallowing the neoliberal koolaid still in his noggin refrigerator that he thinks is pleasant vitamin enhanced (pseudo)intellectual orange juice. Let Aaron put his heart where his mouth is and have an open mind about MMT.

I’d be willing to chat with him in private, or in public. The depressing thing is I think Steve Grumbine already has, but it seemed to go in one ear out the other. Grumbine has done more than anyone I know to get the anti-austerity message through to leftists and conservatives alike. You don’t like calling them fake-leftists, but if they let it all go in one ear and out the other then in my mind they probably are fake leftists.${}^\star$

${}^\star$Which could be characterized as maybe their mind is into leftism, but not their soul.

When exactly will these almost-fake leftists realize that the BRICS+ payments layer will have proven the US dollar never was a “global reserve currency”? Will they even realize this is a proof? Does it even matter? (I think it matters, q.v. the aforementioned atrocities of government austerity being worse by several orders of magnitude than the Gaza genocide.)

By the way, I do like this trend of calling-out “fake leftists.” (Pro-Israel zionists, anti-Russian fear-mongers, protect “US” from the non-freedom -loving-Chinese sinophobes, vote-blue for non-mafia capitalism rubes, etc.) We need such social discourse corrective forces. Even if it is painful for the psyche sometimes to get “called out.”

Who can honestly say they are 100% genuine article anyway? The point is though, many can say they are 100% genuine in their hearts, honestly, which is the good thing. It’s what spews out their mouth that troubles me. But the Parenti’s et al need to apply this to themselves. Every time they 𝔅ꕯꖡꖀꖾ about, “me tax payer dollars…” they are fake-leftists themselves, parroting extreme right-wing myths.

On War Funding

It is a pointless defeatist argument to say we should limit government spending by pegging to gold. You will then be arguing we cannot have “free” public healthcare or “free” education or full employment of the teachers and nurses for those social services. Why would you do that you fake-leftist 𖥐𖦪𖠢𖢧𖥣ꛘ𖨚?

(NB: They are never “free” in real terms, every public school teacher is no longer available for the private sector, during work hours. That’s a type of hidden cost to the private sector, but the government always compensates, by paying the teacher, which does not “come out of your taxes.” It’s the opposite, it goes towards your income in-the-macro.)

Pegging to gold has never stopped wars.

Whenever a 𖥐𖦪𖠢𖢧𖥣ꛘ𖥕ꚶ𖨚 government finds itself needing to redeem gold bullion it does not have, to fund the war, they will drop the gold peg. So the gold peg does absolutely nothing to help, it is deflationary biased, highly regressive, and as the olde good populists once (dimly) understood, it is a cross around the necks of the workers.

This always reveals that the gold was never backing the currency, it was just a price anchor (including in more ancient times an anti-counterfeit technology, no loner needed). The coercive tax liabilities (in one form or another) are always what drive demand for the currency. Always. For at least 6000 years of known history. Not “social agreement”, not “legal tender”, not “false psychology”, not “fictional monopoly.” Cold hard coercive go-to-jail-otherwise tax liabilities. It’s not a damn fictional psychological system. Unless you believe all of “society” is a massive fictional delusion.

The way to stop wars is to prevent the root causes for war. Arguably that means a lot more government spending, not less. Directed towards domestic peace for starters & peaceful trade efforts, rather than weapons manufacturing and the drugs-sex-weapons Unholy Trinity of Trade.

The “dollars sloshing around the system” is not the cause of the war. All currencies since forever have been gauged systems (there is always a non-zero exchange rate), so only the relative prices matter. The weapons get manufactured regardless, so the monetary system is not the place to prevent war. The place to prevent war is the human heart.

Deindustrialization Was Good

Last point I think: Aaron was also complaining (like a MAGA/Tory) about the badness of US deindustrialization. Well, I agree it has been bad — bad for the Chinese factory worker.

Too much of a hot take?

I don’t think so. We should not want to ramp-back up factory production in the USA. Who the heck wants the USA to make more weapons and automobiles? Not me. Better they stick to more Burger King, Netflix, and Starbucks, the slower more benign forms of social poison.

As I hinted at above regarding China versus say Vietnam — China seem pretty wise, they are domestically reducing some future industry by farming it out to other countries, as well as One Belt One Road, which is an expression of peaceful trade, not piracy & plunder. But it still reeks a little of neocolonialism, just not as mentally deficient and self-defeating as “the Wests” version. Deindustrialization without deindustrialization. They seem (dimly) aware this is not a domestic unemployment story. But since (as per Jane Hayward’s notes , and here and here ) China is still a state-sponsored capitalistic nation, like most, they’ve not truly understood the source of their residual unemployment either, which is a tragedy. The USA just had the same policy negligence but in spades, so heckuva lot worse tragedy.

So I’d put it that Chinese deindustrialization is merely “less bad.” That’s because the Chinese culture (I think) is more trade oriented, less piracy oriented. But they are still on a trajectory to hyper-capitalism and gross excess consumption and greed. What holds this together without worker revolt? According to Aaron’s thesis there must be also a fetid mafia deep state in China as well.

One positive angle on this would be that the worker populations the Chinese are seeking to exploit (mostly in Africa?) are wisening up themselves, and chances are will refuse to be the world’s new exploited factory workers. One may hope.

Point being, it takes workers knowing their rights, not enlightened bosses, to distribute factory work equitably around the world, and avoid any one nation exploiting either their own workers (industrialization) or another nation’s workers (deindustrialization).

The only people truly benefiting from all industrialization are those who can charge rents and do not have to work in the factory. Everyone else is either reduced to welfare begging or wage-slave labour. The justification of “raising standards of living” or “moving people out of poverty” is a weak excuse, and is not an excuse for propping up capitalism, neither USA variety nor Chinese variety.

((Not sure why I am focusing on USA and China, it just seems they’re the two in the most stark contrast presently. You might say Cuba is doing pretty well, all things considered. But Cuba still has 1% to 2% official unemployment, and substantial under-employment, so… why???? — they’ve not understood their monetary system either.))

What about Russia and China Then?

Seems to me if Aaron truly wants to defend his thesis he should investigate the deep state-within-a-state in Russia and China too. If capitalism broadly equates with organized crime, then you should be able to see that in those other nations.

This highlights the issue that Capitalism≃Organized Crime is not an equivalence relation. There is a chain of linkages that is needed for the one to beget or begot from the other.

Certainly the American people are good people. I for one, love the American people. It’s a wonderful country. With a ꕒꗍꖀ𐝥ꗍꘝꕯꖡ government. But I love the Russians and Chinese too. I guess it is just common knowledge that Russia is a corrupt oligarchy, so people don’t bother examining their deep state, it is not so deep. China perhaps too, since the authoritarianism is fairly open. Is that good or bad?

Anyway, they are all wonderful countries. The terrible injustice of history is that good people have been practically forever living under the boot of fascists, since that is what the deep state is, it is the hidden shadow behind government when the “democracy” is essentially fake.

Hence I still maintain, contra-Parenti, we’ve never had a democracy, not anywhere, except maybe in small villages. Which speaks volumes towards reorganizing present day central government to basically act merely as umbrella fiscal authority, leaving all local government highly local. I mean extremely local. Difficult to do without local currencies of course, which is why an understanding of MMT is needed (so the central state cannot artificially starve a local government using fake knowledge like “tax payer funding” and “global reserve currency”).

Generalized Mafia

Note: a market economy with factory work, is not capitalism. Capitalism is when an exclusive (fluid too) class of people own the means of production and exploit labour. Or, let’s say, factory work does not have to be capitalist, yet can still be within a market economy. The worker cooperative can run the factory, probably a lot more efficiently than the capitalists. But also let’s work hard now to not need so many factories, without sacrificing our smartphones and fancy footwear. And let’s all try to cut back on non-essentials, without getting all (fake) moralistic and judgy or preachy about it. Just each day figure out what else you do not truly need in order to be content and happy.

When the State owns the means of production it can still be “capitalistic” — the critical thing is not the ownership per se, it is the exploitation of labour. Better then the workers have control over their lives, both at home and at work. That is what is anti-capitalist. (Not just, “let’s get rid of factories.” Much as I would like to get rid of human labour run factories and warehouses.)

I’m not trying to ignore all the nuances, I just don’t have the energy to jot them all down. I’d just agree that it’d be rather nice for the Chinese factory workers if the USA workers got back into US factories a bit. But really I don’t want any people “back” in factories. I want them all out of the factories. Robots in. People out.

Do you need reminders that we wake up every day to severe labour shortages?!!! Hence every worker released from a factory is a potential benefit to society. But you have to employ them! We’re of little benefit if placated with a pittance of a “ubi” (giant “𝔘𝔠𝔎𝕪𝕠𝕦” to all workers). A decent government can always employ people, without telling them explicitly what to work on — it can be left to local communities to figure out what they need. Probably more local community gardens and low scale renewable production (not just of electricity) among other nice things.

The labour justifies the wages — in limited targeted amount it can be ok.

A welfare hand-out does not justify.

• Welfare is the State’s unjustified claim on other people’s labour.
• A Job Guarantee is our justified claim on the State (the State caused all the unemployment in the first instance).

But as any MMT’er will probably say, there are many good people who cannot work or who should not be working. I’d just say don’t say we are charitably giving the welfare. No. That’s condescending ꕗꖹꝆꝆꕷꖾꕯꖡ. We are still employing people when they receive government income. They all have something to contribute to society. It is not up to you, me, nor the state to tell people getting government guaranteed income what they should be doing if they cannot or should not be wage-workers.

It is up to civil society to only say what they should not be doing. (Lighting houses on fire, d̶e̶s̶t̶r̶o̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶T̶e̶s̶l̶a̶ ̶a̶u̶t̶o̶m̶o̶b̶i̶l̶e̶s̶ making pro-neoliberal graffiti, making snuff films…) — but as well as being up to civil society at large to engage in decent basic education so people do not even need to be told what not to do. (Excuse the double negative there, it seemed appropriate in this instance.)

The handicapped and the elderly should not be solely dependent upon a family member for their livelihood, not in a monetary system. Every school kid is justifying a teacher. Every elderly person or handicapped/disabled person needing care is justifying the care worker.

We don’t want bastard-Keynesian teachers: teachers paid to indoctrinate kids one year, then paid to reverse it the next year. (This is what we currently do, to some extent, with lower schools being neoliberalized, and only near the end of university do we have a few decent academics reversing that damage… if you are lucky.)

Likewise we do not want bastard-Keynesian welfare: government crippling people one year then trying to fix it with welfare the next. (Politicizes welfare. Class warfare — the need for liberals to keep some people poor & desperate to give the condescending liberals (more often conservatives) a perennial sense of self-righteous charitable superiority. ꖾꗍꝆꝆꛘꗞ to that I say! ꘝꖾꖹꖀꗣ off to Mars with your UBI brainworms.)

And no, “wages” is not a dirty word. It is fair compensation. The problem is when profits take an unfair cut of sales relative to wages, and that can occur in any economic system, not just capitalism. It is merely worse under capitalism, due to the imbalanced power relations.

What about the Robots?

Well, I guess not everything Andrew Yang said was complete madness, as shocking as that may seem, since I think he is basically a fascist (an over-used term these days? Maybe, but not in this case.) Also, not everything Yanis Varioufakis says is dopey, just some of it. But please do not tell me “there is so much to be done” out one side of your mouth and scream bloody murder about “robots (or immigrants, or ‘Ai’ or ‘cloud capital’) taking away the jobs” out the other side. That’s Davos groupthink brainworms.

But has anyone been doing robot automation of robot manufacturing? Probably not much outside of the military, right? Anyway, you hardly hear anything of this, instead all the focus is on LLM’s. Guys. The LLM’s cannot automate away the ꕷꖾꕯꖡꖡꔇ jobs. So stop worrying about LLM’s. The leftist pro-worker project needs to be on getting robotics going with the resources we have sustainably available, not on millions of acres of server farms funded by advertising to produce slop — slop for no real public benefit — and slop that many people are too easily fooled into thinking is “intelligent.”

Once again, I seem to have run out of gold-plated engraved keystrokes, so no more piling abuse via ḟảήƈƴ ḟǫήƫś on possibly but possibly not fake leftists today.