this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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Yeah I mean regular tech illiterate people as targets for all this I understand, but the fact that there are so many marks in enterprise who are just like “YES MICROSOFT! YES ANTHROPIC! TAKE THE WHEEL! RUN MY NUMBERS, SCAN MY STRATEGIES, HAVE MY TRADE SECRETS!” Is frankly astounding.
It’s really fucking scary growing up and realizing that none of the adults ever actually knew what the fuck they’re doing.
Like, we don’t even trust experts anymore. People think doctors are bad.
I feel so bad for all the people discovering this now, instead of separately from the AI bubble.
One of the scariest and most liberating things I found when growing older was that there are no responsible adults, nobody knows what they're doing all the time, and we're collectively making it up as we go along.
“Passive income” is a crazy obsession, like water for fuel.
Aka rent seeking