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It is kinda concerning how few people actually remember the 2008 Recession and what precedent the US state solidified in its response. A key feature of neoliberal politics is the extraction of public capital through state subsidies and cronyist deal-making. These companies understand that bailouts are a genuine and secure route for capital injection should they sustain a consistent loss. Y'all think it's a coincidence all this coverage of AI company losses followed their realization that there is no way for the US to build up its infrastructure to effectively challenge Chinese AI capabilities?
This is the business model, it's why they're so open and vocal about AI sucking even though they depend on its speculative value and its why they've spent so much on collecting liquidation assets in hardware and real-estate despite the obvious inability to meet the infrastructure demands.
Oh I remember 2008 quite. I lost most of my teenage years to homelessness because economies collapsed due to America's capitalist bullshit.
During that time I had to struggle for food, had junkies threaten and attack my family, and nearly died shitting and puking blood due to contaminated water.
Right, you'd think that experience would make you more receptive to the suffering of others, but here you are.
For context, this person was defending the use of trans slurs recently because they didn't like that they'd have to call their porn that fetishizes trans women a different word. You're against capitalism, but apparently dont see a connection between it and its constructions of gender, sexuality, and systemic oppression.
Did you cyber-stalk a guy to shame him publicly for his porn preferences? What the fuck is wrong with you?
If your "preference" is bigotry, you get what's comin to you.
This person harassed me previously because they didn't like that gooning wasn't more important than real life.
I don't know why chuds think that nobody else can see their gaslighting language.
You're upset people are attracted to trans people. Bro, something is wrong with you.
Why are you having arguments online about peoples porn habits?!? GO OUTSIDE.
"Defending the use of trans slurs"
He's talking about "futanari", a genre name.
I empathise with problems that are real. Not problems that exist because people want to find problems with something that isn't. I hate people like that, because the kinds of people who would turn something like that into a problem are the kind who don't know what problems are.
I don't think you can really bail OpenAI out tho. The bailout worked in 2008 because the government could just buy the 700 billion of "toxic assets" and the financial institutions would return to a self-sustaining state of affairs, like they had been before making a bunch of really risky bets on mortgages. If you gave OpenAI 700 billion they would burn it at an unfathomable rate and still lose money because their underlying business model isn't functional - they only lose money. OpenAI is the toxic asset here. A bailout of them would be more like if the government had paid all of the delinquent home-owners' mortgages for one month; Next month they would be unable to pay again.
I think you misunderstand my point, I don't care about the financialized rationalities over these decisions. You just reiterated what I've said above as though you said something different, these companies are aware that the US state is willing to absorb the cost of their failed investments through the use of public capital. Whether or not there's some contrived reasoning for that decision is irrelevant to me and barely of interest to the people who would request bailouts. '08 was also nearly twenty years ago, and the performance behind neoliberal extraction from public funds is not even thinly veiled anymore.
It was also funny to read the section here that suggest that it would be ridiculous to consider socialized housing in response to a financial crisis caused by privatized housing almost exclusively. I don't think the comparison makes much sense, since OpenAI also does not benefit workers materially in the way that y'know, shelter does. I get you're trying to suggest that it is short-sighted, but it ends up demonstrating just how much of a precedent there is in the US of prioritizing corporate interests over the material interests of taxpayers.
I mean, for clarity, I'd be here for socialized housing. My point is more that paying one month of mortgage (in this scenario) would not materially change anyone's situation with the whole "can't afford the mortgage" thing. It just happened to be a good metaphor.
My point is more that, I hear a lot of people talking about bailing out OpenAI, and I would just like for people to stop and realize that the situation is different and a (one time) bailout isn't an option. The government would have to continuously subsidize them.