Capital itself might become mortal (capitalism may lose fights with labor for first time in history)

Capital itself might become mortal (capitalism may lose fights with labor for first time in history) | there's this cliche out there that capital fights labor and capital usually wins. But this time around, something different might happen. Whereas historically... this time around the risk is maybe capital itself isn't immortal. Maybe capital is finally mortal for the first time in human history.

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there's this cliche out there that capital fights labor and capital usually wins. But this time around, something different might happen. Whereas historically... this time around the risk is maybe capital itself isn't immortal. Maybe capital is finally mortal for the first time in human history.

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  "context": "there's this cliche out there that capital fights labor and capital usually wins. But this time around, something different might happen... this time around the risk is maybe capital itself isn't immortal. Maybe capital is finally mortal for the first time in human history. And I'm not sure that that's the case.",
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      "label": "Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) a",
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      "label": "Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025.",
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      "label": "Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no longer three years out)",
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      "observed_date": "2026-03-12",
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      "label": "Major US wealth-tax / capital-redistribution proposal advances in Congress",
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