AI fund satire: the capital class believes AI ends labor and class struggle because it pays
generativist · x · 2026-10-17
A widely shared take: the author jokes about running a levered AI long fund that could blow up a dozen times and still attract capital, arguing that America's capital class genuinely believes AI is the endpoint of labor power and class struggle — a belief he doubts but admits is very profitable.
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