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sc94597 said:

Capitalism isn't just the multi-national corporations. It is also the state which creates the legal and ethical frameworks which perpetuate their existence and dominance. It is intellectual property, and exclusionary real property laws. It is naval forces that keep global markets open, and secret police that depose divergent polities. It's the centrally controlled monetary and fiscal systems. It's not just authoritarian states that do this either. Almost every European state, as an example, has legal frameworks that perpetuate and depend upon the capitalist system. It's a fundamental characteristic of the state, and you can't disentangle the two. That's why your second paragraph is even less likely to happen than capitalism being displaced (an already nearly unexpected event.) States have as much invested in AI and data-centers as the large multi-nationals in the same way 19th century states had as much invested in railroads and factories as the robber barons. The idea that the proletariat could capture the state through their enfranchisement and bring about socialism/post-capitalism failed its test in the 20th century, when almost all of the gains of the early half of that century were reversed in the second half in most countries. 

Oh, I'm well aware that the state enables capital. They have a nice, comfortable relationship with each other. Businesses donate to politicians, politicians pass laws favorable to businesses at the expense of the people. Rinse and repeat so that the wheels stay greased. The entire system is rotten to the core and needs to be replaced. Otherwise, we're completely screwed as a species in the long run. The capitalist class and their state allies will abuse this new technology to the detriment of us all.

A post-labor, post-scarcity world would be great, but that kind of tech utopia absolutely cannot happen under capitalism, because post-labor cannot coexist in a world still predicated on wage-labor. We would completely need to rethink what an economy even is. 18th & 19th century economic models would need to become obsolete. But capitalism isn't going to voluntarily abolish itself. Wealthy businessmen like being wealthy. They like the power that owning the means of production gives them over the working class. As far as they're concerned, that's their private property and they will do with it as they see fit, and God help anyone who tries to tell them otherwise. If the rest of us have to suffer so they can continue to amass more wealth, well, that's just the cost of doing business.