Daniel Bessner

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 8/4/26: Flock Camera Revolt, China Gives Iran Weapons Amid US Decline · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

in the evenings, but in actually existing capitalism, all it's going to do is basically destroy labor.

And I view AI primarily as related to the falling rate of profit, which is this idea put forward by Marx and other economists, not just Marxists, which is that over time,

profits become more difficult to basically squeeze out of a capitalist order.

I mean, the way that I talk about it to my students is if you build St.

Louis in the 19th century, you're going to make a lot of money.

But now in the 21st century, you have to basically manipulate financial derivatives in order to achieve a stable level of growth.

So I think that the capitalist class, whether consciously or unconsciously, is trying to deindustrialize the white-collar and professional managerial class.

So that's what I think artificial intelligence primarily – its economic incentive is.

And when it comes to international politics, I think the major –

issue that we face is something that we saw in iran which is ai doing target selection based on uh outmoded data and you get the it seems to be you get the destruction of you know children's schools uh and there's also potential for ai arms races and things along those lines but i think the technology is a bit too immature to see where that will go but like atomic weaponry you would ideally have some form of international regulation of it but again in this interest-based world where the united states thinks it has to be primed now and forever it's unlikely you're going to get that

I mean I think the choice is between restraining and reduction of American presence abroad or fighting wars.

I think just to put it in its starkest terms, either the United States is going to reduce its global footprint.

It's at this point 750 or so military bases.

It's going to accept that it's no longer the power it was in 1945 or 1945.

89 or 91, and it is going to come home, which I actually think is a much deeper held strand in American politics.

And actually the period since World War II is quite unique going back to- I totally agree.

That was the normal outcome for the majority of history.

Precisely.

And you look at George Washington's farewell address, which was actually a letter, fun fact.

He warns against not participating in foreign entanglements in Europe, but people have

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