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The top 10% of earners account for 50% of consumer spending.
As long as that’s the case nobody cares if anyone else can afford anything.
The rich. Corps. That’s who they are selling services to these days. Especially the AI stuff. You can’t afford AI. I can’t afford it. But the corp you work for can. The no longer care about us plebs.
And what about when we burn down the data centers?
They’ll imprison us and use us as cheap labor. At least in the US. Unless they kill us.
They will try that regardless of what you do.
Labour without workers. Somehow that’s their dream
They don’t want us: they want only business-to-business contracts: higher profit, less people.
Yes, there’s truth in that article, but the get-rid-of-the-peons current is much more significant than people understand…
& it’ll probably get guns, in the coming 7 years…
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They don’t want us: they want only business-to-business contracts: higher profit, less people.
Ok, but the business that buy need someone to sell to. It is maybe not the first or the second or the third but at some point along the chain b2b must become b2c, a business need to sell to someone that is not a business, else there is not reason for the business to buy in the first place.
The giant economy ouroboros will keep devouring itself while the rest of the world comes up with a different system, I suppose. At one point there might be entire parallel societies spanning around the globe. They physically exist within and around the ouroboros of the overly rich but they‘d barely interact with each other.
I was thinking about this yesterday. Even in the implausible world of tomorrow scenario where AI and robots are doing all the work, how does money retain value? Capital is created by exploitation.
I would be seriously surprised if any billionaire asshole is thinking more than one step outside of their own personal interest.
Yes, three or four steps down the line you arrive back to their personal interest in the terms you speak of, but I think everyone involved in the AI/robotics circlejerk only think: “how can I get this to make me $626,373,637,478,226,748,483?”
