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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 7, 2025

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I find it rather interesting to claim that the PMC, the class most opposed to Trump, is somehow wrecking things. That's some 5D Chess with multiversal time travel right there, not checkers.

Not to put words into the OPs mouth, but that's not what I took from the post. Rather, tariffs are an example of a generalized anti-automation protest which will provide an example for future PMC types to follow when AGI or similar eventually arrives

Just look at this sentence:

If you're worried about how the PMC will eventually sabotage the progress

Not how the PMC are sabotaging progress, but will do so in future

What does Trump have to do with this?

There is an inherent contradiction between:

This is the backlash to automation. This is the "wrecker class" implementing destructive policies in response to being automated away. This is just what it looks like. It doesn't say it on the tin. The talk is always about jobs, but the blame is misplaced for why they're going away. It's automation. It can cause people to reach for whatever tool can possibly cause shortages and contract the economy, just hoping that doing so somehow reverses the impacts of automation. Nevermind that the intermediate steps are "cause shortages" and "contract the economy".

If you're worried about how the PMC will eventually sabotage the progress of automation or just want to find a way to model how humans might be a bottleneck on the way to a glorious automated future, one might need look no further than current events.

The most charitable interpretation is a proof-reading error, otherwise it clearly claims that the PMC are both currently "wrecking" things and this is the way they might wreck things in the future. Given that the PMC, as we understand that class, are not in charge of the stupid economic policies instituted by the Trump admin, and likely the ones most against it, it seems ridiculous to blame them for the latter's actions.

Unless, of course, someone has a convincing argument for why the PMC is somehow responsible that I'm missing.

it clearly claims that the PMC are both currently "wrecking" things

No, it doesn't. Multiple other people read it correctly.

Fair enough. I can see what you meant.

Trump is presumably who OP says is instituting harmful policies

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