Brexit has resurrected SEZs for the 21st century, a perversion of 'freedom' under libertarian ideology, private banking, land grabbing, money laundering, weapons/drugs/human trafficking, lack of employment rights, modern day-slavery, stolen art, demolition of unions and banning of protest.
Our results show that in 2015 the North-net appropriated the following from the South: -12 billion tons of embodied raw material equivalents -822 million hectares of embodied land -21 exajoules of embodied energy -188 million person-years of embodied labour These are staggering quantities...
Damn right. Futurist capitalism (fascism) replaces art to make everyone work in jobs regarded "masculine" like the military and mining that no one wants or truly needs. But what we could do with is a system where AI alleviates ills, allowing humans to meditate, play and create, stress-free.
The thing that does concern me is that the authors (all men) ignore the vital contributions women and queer folk have made over the past 5 years to calling bullshit on the AI hype machine.