Synopsis: The first part of the interview is about Haz's biography and conversion to communism, while the rest are questions about Haz's thoughts on the history of socialism in America and the contemporary political situation. He has very reactionary social views, so keep that in mind if you read this
I thought 500 million was the maximum sustainable population the planet can support.
With AI and robots, why do the ruling classes even need us any more? They only kept us around because they needed our labor.
It is through human labor which can rouse inanimate objects into mighty tools that help change the world around us. "AI" and robots are complex commodities at the end of a long chain of the transformation of nature, and still illustrate that labor won't lose all of its power even in the unlikelihood the tech goblins figure out how to manufacture sentient beings out of circuitboards and double A batteries to replace themselves.