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Bernie Sanders warns ‘worst is yet to come’ in rallying cry against billionaires
(www.theguardian.com)
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The reason these Sociopathic Oligarchs are so giddy about AI, to the point of investing corporation destroying amounts of money, is because they are so excited about replacing so many disgusting human workers with clean, tireless, obedient robots.
That's the bottom line - they are pushing AI so hard at your job because they want it to get good enough to replace you.
The Great Replacement Theory is real, it's just not Jews or undocumented immigrants you have to worry about, it's yourself. YOU are training your own replacement.
All because they want slaves one way or another. Human or not.
— Oscar Wilde
It's the stupidest thing since they're fighting against UBI at the same time. Robots taking everyone's jobs should be a utopian future to look forward to, but instead they're creating a situation that's universally bad for everyone including themselves. When nobody is employed and nobody has any source income, who's going to give the oligarchs more money via consumerism?
I know a lot of billionaires want to bring back a tech-flavoured version of feudalism where they live ~~like~~ as actual kings but even medieval peasants were given some form of bread and circus to keep them from rising up.
Billionaires right now are on track to create a duel between millions to billions of poor and hungry people against the tiny number of them. Without bread and circuses, the people have nothing to live for except overthrowing their oppressors
The stock market, thsy think they just invest in each other. The whole idea is not needing humans at all. If they could get the robots to mass produce their food then they wouldn't give a fuck if the companies make money. Hell they dont now and still earn billions a year.
in so many things it just gets me how these things should be utopian but are dystopian because of powerful folks coopting and exploiting them. I should love smartphones and drones and ai and such rather than despising it all.
Why do we allow the rich to be so powerful? Because they've amassed so many imaginary units?
I think its because most of us are just looking to enjoy our days and our more concerned about what we can do in our lives and make things better than stopping people from making things worse. I mean my academic goals when young was research around gene therapy.
We all wanted Star Trek… but what we’re really going to get is The Expanse
One thing about playing cyberpunk 2077 is it feels so creepily close. Especially all the homelessness and the way the rental buildings worked.
They seem to be convinced that we can no longer revolt against them. Only time will tell if they are correct if nothing stops them
And yet they want us to have many kids just in case it doesn't work. They have no regard for human lives and could care less if anyone beneath them suffers and dies. They need to have their wealth and power cut down to size or it will become reality...
They can make the robots do the expensive jobs and throw the human meat at labour tasks. And we just let it happen.
Right now, billionaires are generally a bunch of human losers propper up by other human losers. And we’re letting them run away with it to where, in a few decades or less, they’ll have a more genuine capacity for violence by controlling machines to the enforcement for them. It seems like no amount of media showing how this always goes will be enough to get people to stop powering up their own demise.