Source: Liu Jiaolian

BTC continued to fall overnight, breaking through 94k.

Yesterday Jiaolian talked about the new paradigm of human production and life in the future.

In Jiaolian’s view, as AI strongly empowers human production, productivity will explode. Within ten years, it may be entirely possible that an independent individual, fully empowered by AI, can create an annual production capacity equivalent to today's RMB 100 million.

Once there is such a leap in the level of productivity, today's backward production relations, that is, capitalist-style production relations, will gradually collapse.

Capitalist production relations, in short, means that you are responsible for production and the company (the embodiment of capital) is responsible for distribution. If you create 100 million for the company, the company will pay you a salary plus a bonus of 1 million, and the remaining 99 million will go to the company. Figures are for illustration only.

In other words, when the surplus value that a person can create far exceeds the price level that capital can pay to its labor force, workers may no longer be willing to tolerate capital-dominated distribution.

If the laborer himself can seize the right of distribution from capital, then the 100 million he creates and the remaining value after deducting various expenses will all belong to the laborer himself.

Some people say that the company provides workers with the means of production!

What means of production? Is it the office location, work computer, broadband internet and coffee machine?

A person who has the ability to create 100 million cannot afford to rent an office, buy a computer, charge a broadband network, or drink coffee?

Some people say that large-scale equipment in large-scale manufacturing factories always require production materials provided by the company, right?

Yes. But why can the way of "provision" only be for companies to hire workers, rather than for individuals to rent the equipment provided by many basic manufacturing facilities providers to complete production?

Of course, this requires the manufacturing industry to continue to evolve, and all backends to be standardized, AI robotized, and interfaces open.

As an individual, I can directly choose the services of these providers of large-scale basic manufacturing facilities online, place an order remotely, and it will automatically help me complete everything from purchasing raw materials to finished product processing and even terminal logistics distribution, and deliver it directly. to my clients.

Just like today's cloud computing. Jiaolian does not need to worry about computer room planning, server hardware procurement, broadband network maintenance, water, electricity, fire protection and other cumbersome matters in the physical world. You can easily create a computer room with just a few clicks on the Internet and spend hundreds or thousands of yuan. Cloud hosting runs a website and provides exclusive services to members and friends.

So, just imagine, if Jiaolian now wants to produce some blockchain mobile phones with built-in security encryption chips to store private key mnemonics, is it possible to be as convenient as purchasing a cloud host? Directly find several manufacturing service providers online, without the need for lengthy business negotiations and haggling. Instead, with the assistance of AI and the combination of standardized modules, you can assemble a product that meets your vision in just a few hours.Product design, online ordering, and production requirements are sent directly to the backend. The AI-driven full robot industry chain is manufactured and quality inspected within the scheduled construction period, and is seamlessly connected to the logistics express company according to the consignee list submitted by the teaching chain. , delivered directly to designated customers?

For the intelligent upgrading of the manufacturing industry, Jiaolian believes that it is necessary to achieve the above.

On that day, human workers only need to sit in front of the computer to make demands. After deducting production costs such as manufacturing and logistics, the remaining profits will all belong to the workers; there is no need to go to the manufacturer. Tightening screws in the factory, earning a small salary under the employment system.

This day is likely to arrive much faster than people imagine.

The workers who take away the surplus profits under this new production relationship are not the capitalists who take away the surplus profits under the old capitalist production relations.

This laborer is still the proletariat. Because the definition of the proletariat is not owning the means of production, not not owning private property. This worker does not own any means of production from beginning to end.

All means of production used by workers in production are rented.

When workers dominate the distribution of value, it will no longer be like today, when countless job seekers are fighting for a high-paying employment opportunity, but instead, a number of owners of production means (bosses/companies) will be fighting for the top spot. Steal production orders placed by workers.

Just like Jiaolian comparing prices among multiple cloud computing companies today. Rent the cloud host from whichever company is more cost-effective and has better service.

The most important thing to do is to strictly enforce anti-monopoly to prevent these renters of the means of production from forming trusts and uniting to seize the sovereignty of workers.

Workers’ sovereignty, I believe, is ten thousand times better than the “consumer sovereignty” under today’s capitalist ideology.

Do capitalists really care about consumer sovereignty? What they care about is actually their representative status claiming to represent consumer sovereignty.

Think about why some bosses you meet in your career who don’t understand anything have to insist at the company’s product conference that he is the one who best understands user needs?

In fact, what he means is that although your position is a product manager and you are professional in making products, you must follow his ideas.

Why? Because he represents "consumer sovereignty".

If this right of representation is stolen by you, a wage earner, then his authority and even status as the boss will be at risk. At least, that's what he probably felt in his heart.

His IQ may not be low. But his class status determines his cognition. It is commonly said that the butt determines the head.

So are the products produced in this way really what consumers need?

What is even more confusing is that platforms in the web2 era exploit workers in the name of consumers.

A typical example isIt was a hot topic in the past few years, that the life of a delivery person is trapped in the algorithm.

Why does the platform have the right to unilaterally modify the rules and force delivery workers to continuously increase their intensity? Isn’t the banner they are using consumer satisfaction?

This is to use the internal contradictions between the people and the people to cover up the class contradictions between the people and the platform.

What needs to be done may be to promote democracy in platform-type production relations.

For the optimization algorithm of the food delivery platform, a meeting attended by food delivery representatives and user representatives must be held for democratic decision-making.

When taxi-hailing platforms improve their products, they must invite driver representatives and user representatives to conduct democratic discussions.

If short video platforms modify recommendation rules, they must have democratic discussions between content producers and user representatives.

And so on.

The election of representatives, the convening of the general meeting, and the democratic decision-making process must be carried out under supervision, be open and transparent to the whole society, and accept the supervision of the whole society.

But this is just a patch.

Essentially, the relationship between delivery workers and delivery platforms is an inferior employment relationship without employment benefits and labor protections.

This is the web2 platform’s secret to obtaining excess profits: allocate the value created by your labor without bearing any costs of employment (such as five insurances and one housing fund, various benefits for regular employees, etc.) .

Obviously, delivery people are not renters of the food delivery platform, drivers are not renters of the taxi-hailing platform, and content producers may not be renters of the short video platform.

Otherwise, if they are renters of the platform, then they are the "customers" of the platform. In terms of "consumer sovereignty" in any sense, the platform should treat them as God's providers. . "Consumers are God"!

In reality, they are more like slaves of the platform than the gods of the platform.

The root cause is that individual workers, as a small labor force capital, have no bargaining power when facing giant capital like platforms. When a big fish eats a small fish, there is no need to consult with the small fish.

Individual workers need a strong asset to empower themselves, so as to avoid being swallowed up by giant capital.

The value appreciation rate of this kind of strong asset can always exceed the growth rate of all giant capitals in the world in the long term.

Only in this way, individual workers can always gain an advantageous position in the game when paying rent (whether in the form of explicit royalties or implicit so-called profit sharing).

Because the growth rate of this kind of assets can always exceed the growth rate of the rent of all means of production and living.

So, for individuals, buying is worse than renting. Owning is worse than renting.

When the consensus that this kind of powerful assets can empower individuals to gain an advantageous position in the game gradually spreads around the world, it is known and practiced by hundreds of millions of workers and proletarians who do not own the means of production.At that time, the great unity of workers all over the world was realized.

So, we can only hold this most powerful asset and rent everything else. Because the growth of all other rents will never catch up with the growth rate of the strongest asset.

This will be the wisest plan financially.

So, in the rental era, hold BTC.