July 5, 2025

CAPITALISM IS IN ITS INFANCY:

The AI Efficiency Trap: When Productivity Tools Create Perpetual Pressure (Knowledge Wharton, July 05, 2025, Fair Observer)

Three-quarters of surveyed workers were using AI in the workplace in 2024, but instead of experiencing liberation, many found themselves caught in an efficiency trap — a mechanism that only moves toward ever higher performance standards.

Imagine thinking that creating wealth ever more cheaply is a problem?