09-02-2025, 11:58 PM
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Yeah, speaking of cognitive dissonance....lol. How do you reconcile these two posts.
Nepenthe says modern firms need wage labor because owners can’t do every role, so avoiding exploitation requires workers having real claims on control and returns via co‑ownership, profit‑sharing, unions etc...you know... democratizing production tools and outcomes.
Yet, how convenient...specifically and uniquely for art Nepenthe rejects AI “democratization” because lowered effort drains prestige and perceived value. If prompting is aim‑botting, isn't stocking shelves at Walgreens and then demanding profit sharing for a job anyone can do like clicking the "Create Image" button also aim-botting? You're a dime-a-dozen and can be replaced in 2 seconds like a prompter. So, “frictionless” achievements don’t deserve recognition. How does any low-skilled, easily replaceable worker who would otherwise have no leverage automatically get claims to profit sharing and co-ownership to production tools, or anything else they'd never get by "earning" in a "hard-fought" way, like in the free market? Either democratized tools and shared stakes matter even when tasks are easy, or meaningful prestige and rewards should track to only complex, high‑skilled work that is more scarce and harder to fulfilfill by the labor market......like capitalism.
Even the best way you can reconcile these two posts is “rewards should track real contribution”, and that floor moppers can still earn more if they contribute more and do a better job because of their stake in the business, it still leaves the question, why is democratized access to tools and ownership legitimate in business (to fight exploitation) but illegitimate in art (for diluting prestige)? Why is output from tools that lower barriers and expand access considered less meaningful just because it wasn’t “earned” through years of work and effort, or schooling, or whatever Nepenthe did to grow her skill as an artist...why would it matter if the outcome result matches regardless? Why should student loan forgiveness be allowed if one group worked a "hard-fought" battle to responsibly budget and pay their bills, and another group didn't, even if a society with young debt-free people produce a better outcome in general? Nobody should give a shit about those people, they didn't toil for it. How does she hold two opposing views in her head? Because Nepenthe's ethical standards for everything, including race, economics, the freedom to speak, etc isn't ever standardized across the board, it's pinned to answering "How does this benefit me first?" It benefits her to gatekeep because her only marketable skill is art, so she does that to protect her ass instead of coming up with a rule she can apply across the board. But in the absence of any other marketable skills in domains other than art, the whole world has to reconfigure the economic system while she larps as Noam Chomsky.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragoncon-kicks-out-ai-art-vendor.1285962/page-2
Yeah, speaking of cognitive dissonance....lol. How do you reconcile these two posts.
Nepenthe says modern firms need wage labor because owners can’t do every role, so avoiding exploitation requires workers having real claims on control and returns via co‑ownership, profit‑sharing, unions etc...you know... democratizing production tools and outcomes.
Yet, how convenient...specifically and uniquely for art Nepenthe rejects AI “democratization” because lowered effort drains prestige and perceived value. If prompting is aim‑botting, isn't stocking shelves at Walgreens and then demanding profit sharing for a job anyone can do like clicking the "Create Image" button also aim-botting? You're a dime-a-dozen and can be replaced in 2 seconds like a prompter. So, “frictionless” achievements don’t deserve recognition. How does any low-skilled, easily replaceable worker who would otherwise have no leverage automatically get claims to profit sharing and co-ownership to production tools, or anything else they'd never get by "earning" in a "hard-fought" way, like in the free market? Either democratized tools and shared stakes matter even when tasks are easy, or meaningful prestige and rewards should track to only complex, high‑skilled work that is more scarce and harder to fulfilfill by the labor market......like capitalism.
Even the best way you can reconcile these two posts is “rewards should track real contribution”, and that floor moppers can still earn more if they contribute more and do a better job because of their stake in the business, it still leaves the question, why is democratized access to tools and ownership legitimate in business (to fight exploitation) but illegitimate in art (for diluting prestige)? Why is output from tools that lower barriers and expand access considered less meaningful just because it wasn’t “earned” through years of work and effort, or schooling, or whatever Nepenthe did to grow her skill as an artist...why would it matter if the outcome result matches regardless? Why should student loan forgiveness be allowed if one group worked a "hard-fought" battle to responsibly budget and pay their bills, and another group didn't, even if a society with young debt-free people produce a better outcome in general? Nobody should give a shit about those people, they didn't toil for it. How does she hold two opposing views in her head? Because Nepenthe's ethical standards for everything, including race, economics, the freedom to speak, etc isn't ever standardized across the board, it's pinned to answering "How does this benefit me first?" It benefits her to gatekeep because her only marketable skill is art, so she does that to protect her ass instead of coming up with a rule she can apply across the board. But in the absence of any other marketable skills in domains other than art, the whole world has to reconfigure the economic system while she larps as Noam Chomsky.
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