Well it is 'post-capitalism' rather than 'anti-capitalism' or 'non-capitalism' the same way 'post-punk' relates to 'punk'. Human capital is something of a conceptual misnomer as the knowledge itself is owned by the individual and can only be licensed or contracted by investors and management, not traded on capital markets.
> A capitalist society is one where people assemble different forms of capital to produce capital returns that are larger than the sum of the capital inputs, where the possibilities available to you depend on the amount and quality of capital that you have access to.
The reason we live in post-capitalism is that capital is largely abundant these days, although many regional and cultural barriers remain due to bias, prejudice and risk aversion. But is no longer the determining factor of economic growth - necessary but not sufficient.
> This is all still very relevant when discussing human capital - access to human capital is determined by the quality of your professional networks, whether you decide to be present in geographic talent clusters (i.e. cities as centers of industry), and whether you have sufficient financial capital available in trade.
I feel this is a stretch. In a non-capitalist economic system, for example, the wealth of the collective is arguably also bounded by the scarcity of knowledge in that collective. Knowledge does not have the same properties of capital accumulation that Marx described.
> AI will not transition us to a post-capitalist society. Its promise is solely the ability to replace human capital with other forms: chips and electricity. It does not spell the death of human labor any more than computers and spreadsheets did for accountants.
Spoken like someone who didn't even read my parent comment. We are already living in a post-capitalist society, and have been for several decades.
"Chips and electricity" is reductio ad absurdum, and ignores a vast number of other input factors. AI will not eliminate labor or human capital, that's just marketing. It certainly will transform it as other tools have.
