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 ...