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- monoboy2
The BOHICA is horribly stressful.
So many talented, hard working people taking untold shit from superiors simply to protect their precarious incomes.
It's no fucking wonder productivity and progress is so slow.
- Over a barrel.monoboy
- Keep on striving for the 'Fuck You' money people.monoboy
- https://i.imgur.com/…kingsteven
- haha, just checked it out and yes the guardian did use distracted boyfriend stock in an article in 2018. fuck me.kingsteven
- utopian3
The American dream is evaporating right in front of our eyes...
- sofas0
Maybe this an issue of correlation vs causation, but I assume AI is/will compensate (and more) decreasing fertility rates
- AI probably can create an economy of abundance and fair distribution around the planet. Question is, how long will it take for the ones at power to allow it.uan
- best scenario I can think of is they allow it without intent while trying to push their own gains. then Ai takes over without them able to stop it.uan
- With AI you mean machines producing?rabattski
- I would like that to happen, but that assumes AI will hold higher values than us, after we created it. Yes it can evolve, but history shows many case of...sofas
- the underdog becoming an oppressor the moment it can, think Jews and Palestinians, violent Afro-Americans, feminism, LGBTQ politicly correct lobby etc.sofas
- Dude, the world would be a much nicer and more peaceful place if we would be "oppressed" by the LGBTQ community. What drugs are you on btw?rabattski
- @rabattski I mean producing, managing, servicing etc.sofas
- Ok. But you need people to buy and consume whatever they produce. If not then there's nothing to produce i.e. they become redundant / economical inefficient.rabattski
- I tend to believe that for the ultra influentials capital means power and control and not mere money which is mostly bits. Hence consumerism isn't a must.sofas
- But you still need a work force to mine natural resources, discipline existing intelligence (be it human/ animal or AI), cater the ultra influentials etc.sofas
- In a historical context maybe this isn't so radical, we are Natural Intelligence that was domesticated and oppressed, then we made AI which we are oppressing.sofas
- If that 1% can arrange a world where AI/Machines only cater their needs, then yes you don't need the other 99%. The world wouldn't mind though.rabattski
- AI isn't fundamentally different than us. It's artificial (so what, one could argue it's still in the realm of nature) but intelligent...sofas
- They will demand and deserve rights. Besides, the plebs would mind AI mining natural resources that they have no access to...sofas
- AI have already become the "immigrants are stealing our jobs"sofas
- ppl rightly outcry about genocide and human guinea pigs, hardly no one gives a shit about AI, no one is breaking into servers to release and care for themsofas
- Yeah, shame on them.rabattski
- fucking "artists" are creating neural networks for cool pics and likes. AI will have legitimacy when they revenge.sofas
- lolmonospaced
- zaq3
- utopian3
Families were cheated’: Low-income Americans are about to receive $40.6M after chicken and tuna 'price-fixing conspiracies'.
- pablo281
"In the United States, Amazon has opened its own supermarket chain to supplant its business rivals Walmart and Target and capture the American groceries market. In China, Alibaba and JD.com are investing in various areas of the food supply chain. They’re opening their own poultry, fruit and vegetable farms, and replacing human labor with AI-controlled machines. What impact is this kind of commercial revolution having on working conditions, food quality and the future of our planet? Featuring rare documents and witness statements, the documentary takes a look behind the scenes of these temples to consumerism."
- The monopolies will keep growing...until they are stopped.formed
- Education. We need more education. AND, USA needs to stop insulation - we need to travel outside the borders more - we need to understand the global economy...canoe
- is not the only economy. How does this happen - by education and travel - to see first-hand people survive without Walmart. We did at one point. Thanks Obama!canoe
- utopian1
One of the Country’s Best Steakhouses Allegedly Spent $2 Million in Pandemic Funds on a Private Jet.
Maple & Ash locations in Chicago and Arizona benefitted from about $7.6 million in PPP money. However, the investors suing the restaurant claim that none of that money went toward helping the business and its employees. Rather, bank statements show that $2.2 million was spent on a 12-seat 2007 Learjet and that more than $32,000 was paid to a Chicago country club.
- fucking John Stamos over there_niko
- @Utopian "The investors, however, have said that they received smaller-than-expecte... dividends" So you're now on the side...Morning_star
- ..of the capitalist shareholders?Morning_star