#democraticerosion — Public Fediverse posts
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Automation and repression — why the two go hand in hand
Revolts, triggered by inequality* "It's taxes or pitchforks!"
"This is the real underlying threat posed by automation: tremendous social upheaval, public unrest, and political collapse stemming from widespread unemployment and grotesque inequality.""More automation will require more redistribution to cushion the disruptive effects of automation, so as a country automates more, the tax burden will keep increasing on "capitalists"
Acemoglu, Shadmehr and Gitmez "have modelled how workers would try to coordinate in an uprising, and how a capitalist state would try to prevent an uprising occurring, in an environment in which automation and inequality are increasing."
"They say the novel finding of their paper is that automation and repression complement and reinforce each other...The economy will ultimately converge to repression and the 'pitchforks' will be met with 'guns' from the capitalist state". >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/automation-and-repression-the-two-go-hand-in-hand-daron-acemoglu/107063582* "We characterize the trade-off between the regulation of automation, redistribution and repression.Our main result is a complementarity between automation and repression. We show that, starting in a democracy, capital accumulation and thus greater automation encourages the capitalists to support a coup against democracy and set up a repressive system." >>
https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/35336.html* Daron Acemoglu & A. Arda Gitmez & Mehdi Shadmehr, 2026. "Automation and Repression," NBER Working Papers 35336, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. >>
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35336/w35336.pdf
#inequality #technology #automation #redistribution #surveillance #DataCenters #AI #biopolitics #tax #ExtremeWealth #repression #BigTech #SocialUnrest #coup #repression #state #DemocraticErosion #regulation #revolt -
The Impact of Trump's Policies on National Stability and Democracy
📰 Original title: Years of embarrassment led a raging Trump to this abomination
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#politics #trumppolicies #democraticerosion #economicinequality
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Europe is at a crossroads as democratic erosion deepens, a report warns.
As the UN marks the International Day of Democracy on Monday, the global body called for renewed commitment to civic freedoms – but fresh data suggests Europe, long seen as democracy’s safe zone, is now one of the regions where those freedoms are most under strain.
#Democracy #Europe #Politics #DemocraticErosion #DemocraticBacksliding #UN
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When aspiring authoritarians seek to “break” democracy from within, their first target is always the machinery of government itself.
Chapter 2 of Deconstructing Project 2025 details how mass firings, agency demolitions, and executive overreach are reengineering American governance—not for efficiency but for control.
Read more: https://hemlockcollective.substack.com/p/chapter-2-dismantling-the-executive
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Can we have a #goodnews thread? The worldwide spread of #democraticerosion is really getting to me tonight.