The most interesting point here is relating machine speed to intensity. Plenty of tech folks are both working longer hours and overseeing more responsibilities thanks to AI. There are other factors at play though (interest rates and AI-addiction, for two).

appreciatorBus 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ok but Marx is a disproven hack, whose only claim to fame is indirectly starving millions of people. Not sure his ideas deserve any more air than they have already been given. Time to move on.

	▲	mekael 22 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There’s communism the theoretical idea and “communism” the application. The twentieth century was neither, but just authoritarianism wearing a trench-coat.
	▲	shellkr an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		This point could be made on every ideology.. Capitalism in essence is pretty gruesome too. The enlightenment, american and french revolutions and the labor movement was stuff that moved the pin in the right direction.
	▲	maxbendick 43 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Marx builds on Smith. Would you agree then that Adam Smith is disproven even more and responsible for far more starvation? That would be ridiculous.
	▲	ihm an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What part of Marx's work do you think has been disproven?