Thinking back to this CGP Grey video and how I believed it at the time.
And now:
US trucker shortage means everything is more expensive
The trucking industry has been short drivers for years, but the pandemic made it worse. The shortage means the price of groceries and moving costs are going up. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich reports.
Source: CNNBusiness
It's a problem that is at the heart of Marx's prediction of capitalism eating itself. The rate of profit to fall is based on increasing automation and cheapening of human labor. Late capitalism instead has relied on neo-colonial exploitation in the global south to put off the inevitable drawbacks of automation: with enough violence, it's magically cheaper (for manufacturers) and more profitable (for the military-industrial complex). That's how growth is funded. Of course, the real wall that capitalism will hit is an ecological one, not a growth one.
One could argue that the ecological wall is essentially a growth wall
It is, but not the technological growth wall that people were expecting.