AI is becoming the economic base, not the superstructure

Google releases eighth-generation TPUs designed for agentic AI. Neuromorphic computers can now solve physics simulations once requiring supercomputers. Oracle, Block, and unnamed others are not just using AI — they are restructuring around it, making explicit what has been implicit: human labour is becoming optional for knowledge work at scale. The processing is bifurcated. Tech discourse celebrates efficiency gains. Labour discourse is largely silenced — workers are not organised around this t ...

The silence: mainstream processing continues to treat AI as a tool question (will it help or hurt my productivity?) rather than as a civilisational question (what is work for, and what holds societies together when work is no longer the primary distributive mechanism?). The UFO files got more coverage than the structural transformation of labour.