You’re right. They are working in the sense that they are competing with others to come out as the top parasites. Not to mention that working against laborers takes effort as well. But they are not working in the sense that people bicker about AI “taking jobs”; providing useful labor.

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simianwords 2 days ago | parent [-]

Competing against others to come out at the top _is_ useful labor. The best one wins usually and as a consumer you want the best products to come on top.

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keybored 2 days ago | parent [-]

Maybe this is very Vulgar Marxist but that seems a bit like crediting gangsters competing to shake down construction businesses for building bridges.

	▲	simianwords 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That’s not the case at all. Competition is integral to the system working. We have many laws to protect the market so that competition is viable like anti trust etc. Competition is why you have good products. Can you explain to me what incentivizes Apple to make functional and impressive iPhones instead of selling us barely working phones without cameras?