Can’t be a communist country with billionaires.

Assuming by communist you include a socialist country then in a dictatorship against capital you could.

automation has never in history lead to utopia

Luddites didn’t defeat fascists. Marxist-leninists did. Burning the loom did not liberate the weaver.

It’s like a combination of poor reading comprehension + AI artisanal reaction + sinophobic orientalism all rolled into one. Must be cognitively taxing maintaining such backwardness.

For anyone who has read down this far, book recommendation: Thinking in Systems by Meadows (recommended initially by OP :) )

^Very much this.

Like any accusation of atrocity propaganda against anti-imperialist states, villifying of immigrants, or accusations of lack of democracy, we now have an easy new Western Magnum Opus to point to; it won’t convince anyone still benefiting from present material conditions but it may help any nasecent leftist organisations/proto-organisations in the west to help sharpen their political theory of attack ie who not to waste their time “persuading”.

Will likely just be replaced by a smarter/more ruthless fascist/liberal. This is not a lesser evil argument, just reflecting the direction of change.

That first minister is a fucking cowardly gobshite piece of work which is why he got the job in the first place.

Whenever someone responds with apparent legalism in defense of the indefensible the reply to that should be why their first response was not that the law should be changed instead. Hiding behind legalism means you agree with that interpretation of the law and too cowardly to hoist your fascist flag/flag of subservience instead.