As long as corporations make products they create value where shareholders make money to buy products
Thats not very “shareholder value” of you. /s
A cancer doesn’t plan
I have a suspicion they are focusing on short-term goals, because that is what those people usually do. For example, it’s probably hard to explain who should watch all the ads and buy all the advertised products when Facebook replaces their content and interactions with bot slop. They didn’t think this through. This isn’t some kind of visionary 4D chess. But it does not matter to them. When wasting 80 billion on a VR project that was doomed to fail from the beginning does not matter, nothing does.
For example, it’s probably hard to explain who should watch all the ads and buy all the advertised products when Facebook replaces their content and interactions with bot slop.
Sam Altman owns a company that provides ‘human verification’
We kinda have two choices:
Some flavour of socialism where people get what they need for free
Or
Turbo-rio-de-janiro style inequality where we all live in slums
Now the 2nd one is what the ultra rich want and they have a lot of power, so it’s kinda on the rest of us to make the first happen instead
“maybe the clothes are made of paper. The food is just nutrient paste…”
Or something like that from the Expanse. Sure, your needs are met, but living life on basic assistance seems like a nightmare.
Didn’t the French have an option three?
The french fucked up cause they didn’t have option 1 as the follow-up to option 3.
It’s an uphill battle, but it’s better to start early than late.
Unlike before, the rich now have private armies, lobbying groups, and mass surveillance networks while we peasants own nothing. Plus, the pot is slowly boiled.
Data centres notoriously don’t have heads, but I love the enthusiasm
Data centers are made by companies and companies have board of directors who have heads. CEOs have heads.
If Louis so-and-so hadn’t had a head my ancestors would have blown him to bits, that’s also an option for datacenters, just look at Iran !
No one, hopefully, we’ve been buying far too much useless plastic garbage, replacing our electronics and appliances far more often than should be necessary, etc. etc. The whole economy is a sham.
Yeah, the “elite” aren’t actually smart enough to figure that out. Elite is kind of an oxymoron.
No one asked you to use that word to describe them, why are you perpetuating it?
They’re not elite, they’re just rich fuckers who attained massive riches by exploiting the workers’ need for survival.
That’s why they need to horde that much money.
Nobody gets rich or stays rich by hoarding money. That’s not what being wealthy means.
It’s okay. Elon said we’d all be rich thanks to UBI once the robots have taken over all the jobs. And Elon wouldn’t lie.
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People should consider reading Iron Heel by Jack London. Written in 1908 it is considered a social sci-fi, reading it now it feels like he came back from the future to write it.
maybe he did. we don’t know. 🤷♂️
The owners of other robots.
The economy is already morphing to serve the needs of the upper levels of worth. Look at the trend with airlines shrinking economy sections and expanding first class and business class. Pretty much all consumer offerings are moving to the luxury tier.
Vegas is a good example. Increasingly caters to the top 1%.
We will be the stuff
Stuff is people! 😮
They will push the hard problems they create off to an unfunded government as usual. The only way I can see this working is by nationalizing the AI companies. The billionaires will balk, but millions of people with pitchforks can be a great motivator. The main issue will be if we allow these people to build robot armies, in which case this whole transformation becomes a lot harder.
The thing is, these people can’t do anything by themselves, and AI won’t unclog their toilets. Making things hard enough for the common folk will bite your ass eventually - they need people to keep their cozy lives running, while pretending they don’t and can replace everyone. Good luck with getting that vibe-coded toilet unplugger working
Thats assuming that complete transition goes unchallenged. I might be misanthropic, but history has shown humans can be fark’n stubborn
Either we all die, or our owners will give us a few bucks to make a living (UBI style), but not enough to do more. We’re fucked anyway.
