We believe a market sets wages as a function of the marginal productivity of the worker. Therefore technology – which raises productivity – drives wages up, not down. This is perhaps the most counterintuitive idea in all of economics, but i…Milton Friedman
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Nick Land
philosopher · 3 mentions across 2 readings
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Nick Land is a theorist of accelerationism and cybernetic posthumanism who explores the entanglement of markets, technology, and science fiction as computational systems. In Fisher's "SF Capital," Land's work on "Cybergothic" and swarmmachines appears to support the argument that desire, markets, and speculative fiction operate as integrated infrastructural forces rather than separate domains. His presence in the a16z reading list alongside economic futurists like Kurzweil and Romer suggests his thinking contributes to the course's broader investigation of how AI and machine learning intensify feedback loops between capital, technological acceleration, and social transformation.
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