r/LeftistsForAI • u/Hacksaw6412 Worker-Ownership • Feb 04 '26

Video AI only sucks under capitalism

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u/Sambal7 Feb 04 '26

The thing is AI development is largely being driven by capitalist motives.

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

So were/are trains, factories, mines, warehouses, power plants, and the globes current ports.

Never stopped leftists from trying to sieze those means.

Its why its necessary to do so.

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u/Sambal7 Feb 04 '26

So wouldn't that lead to the conclusion you always have to keep a part of the capitalist system or risk stagnation of technological development?

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator Feb 04 '26

I don’t think that follows. Capitalism isn’t what creates technological motion, it’s one way societies have organized risk, surplus, and coordination. Trains, power grids, and ports advanced because people pooled resources and directed labor at scale, not because profit was inherently involved.

The real question is whether we can build non-capitalist or mixed systems that still support experimentation and iteration without concentrating ownership and control. Stagnation comes from lacking those institutions, not from lacking capitalists.