Post #1440095

2026-04-20 13:00 UTC

Too narrow of a scope to be useful I think. When he talks about LLCs, the real thing he’s referring to has to be capitalism. The “unaligned AI is already here, it’s corporations” has been around for a while, and I don’t think it convinced a lot of people to become socialists. I think you can’t usefully tackle just the capitalism of the tech industry, if you don’t understand the wider system around it. I mean the VC that sloshes around in tech to raise up one bullshitteer after another comes from somewhere. Real estate, mining, fossil fuels, etc.

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@Evinceo@awful.systems 2026-04-20 16:25

When he talks about LLCs, the real thing he’s referring to has to be capitalism. The “unaligned AI is already here, it’s corporations” trope has been around for a while, and I don’t think it convinced a lot of people to become socialists. Nah, this is the threat as he describes it: Every moment that we remain stuck in the enshitternet is a moment of existential risk. At the click of a mouse, Trump could order John Deere to switch off all the tractors in your country He doesn’t need tanks to steal Greenland. He can just shut off Denmark’s access to American platforms like Office365, iOS and Android and brick the whole damned country. It would be another Strait of Hormuz, but instead of oil and fertilizer, he’d control the flow of Lego, Ozempic and deliciously strong black licorice He’s not saying that “corporations are a parasitic species we created that will devour our precious planet and ability to survive and turn it into shareholder value for our corpses to enjoy” no sir he’s saying we need to switch to open source replacements for Office 360 and get Right To Repair for our tractors.

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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-04-20 23:50

Yeah. I mean, I’m going to assume that he’s not specifically referring to LLCs and that, say General Partnerships and Sole Proprietorship aren’t actually better, mostly because they absolutely share the same problems. But that’s a whole lot of digital ink spilled about how important it is to create “digital public goods” - and one assumes public goods more generally, given our ongoing inability to subsist on digital food - without any real thought put to how such systems should be organized, controlled, protected, etc. Like, if he stopped trying to wave “digital innovation” around like a magic wand he’d basically have to be a communist or anarchist of some flavor. But he’s still sufficiently in the Silicon Valley Milieu where lefty politics are too cringe to admit, so he’s stuc having identified some real problems and having no realistic starting point for solving them

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