With the means of production in its hands, the billionaire class will fully decouple itself from the rest of the society after full automation. It will mark the total breaking of the social contract. Now, imagine what could happen next with a tiny elite possessing armies of killer robots and weapons of mass destruction in an overpopulated planet with almost drained natural resources.
Yanis Varoufakis   On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide. 
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