Should be of significant interest to the left, the latter less so though perhaps more now in the era of AI. The former represent imo a key node in the argument over the abundance agenda.

So I would personally propose that...
- Huge state backed infrastructure development
- Huge partly state fueled housing boom
- Significantly state-backed investment in renewable technologies and key industries
- Large state sector partly to ensure large-scale employment...

There is of course one great exception to this: China.

And how could he? The left has long lost any serious tradition of thinking about governance and economics. Gone are the Marxist and Kenyesian traditions, replaced by a never-ending focus on identity. As I argued from 2016, the left is only as good as its ideas, and it is now largely without them 2/2

It’s such a shame that none of the great British Marxist historians remain. Perhaps no one would be better suited to probe the rise of AI than a school of historians deeply interested in changing modes of production.

That graph is purely weekly active users of ChatGPT - which people have to choose to use.

Reading the literature - I’m often left with the same feeling, that there’s a specific way I’m meant to feel about and talk about my body. And I kind of hate it.

I was also able to write things I now couldn’t given I’m more distanced from the worst of my suffering

I’ve been able to start writing again recently in little spurts - and all the tiny things I wrote when I was at my most severe have proved unbelievably useful (don’t know if that’s any consolation)

I feel this so much - there are so many powerful voices that would add so much to our understanding of the world, sickness, and disability that are just silenced by illness

However, you’re more likely to perceive the world through the lens of your impairment if your impairment is what disables you most of the time as opposed to lack of societal accommodation. And that perspective appears less because those people don’t become academics. 5/5

Impairment/disability also applies to more severe conditions - in some hunter gatherer societies, the severely unwell were actually looked after with great care while in the late 19th century they were liable to end up in awful institutions. 4/

If you’re in academia - your bodily function has to be strong enough to allow for fairly high level functioning. So you’re more likely to place emphasis on the ways society doesn’t accommodate you. It’s a broad generalization, but that’s what’s likely to be most disabling. 3/

So eg in some societies, the blind are considered incapable of work. In others, accommodations are made so they can work. In others, there are mythologies surrounding the blind - so an impairment comes to mean v different things in different societies and is thus disabling to different extents 2/

Ah yeah - so the usual breakdown is:

Impairment: the way in which someone’s body or mind diverges from the ‘norm.’

Disability: the society-specific ways that impairment prevents people from social and economic participation. 1/