there is enough capital circulating now among certain groups such that there is no practical driver to change anything about the current economics.. "let them eat cake" basically? Appearing to look cultured while arguing for the effective economic demise of the artisan, at scale, is the hot take today here
It's not even a hot take. This is the straight neoliberal party line. There's some original research here, but no original thought - down to the debunked "Don't tax rich people or they'll leave" line, which even economists will tell you is objectively untrue.
Ultimately it's about freedom and values - not the capitalist take on freedom, which is all about property rights and the "freedom" to consume and pick one of a number of performative lifestyles, some of which are labelled dissenting, but the freedom of imagination to reinvent culture and technology in completely original ways.
You might think the AI companies are doing that, but they're doing the opposite. They're automating privilege - reinforcing and amplifying the existing system of economic disenfranchisement, value enclosure, and diminishing accountability.
