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@LeighWolf @TonySoFla "the vast majority of our resources are spent helping people, not on warfighting" You say that like you'd like it to be the other way around or like it's not a good thing. WTF. In fact, 100% should go to helping people, that's the whole point of collecting taxes. FOR THE PEOPLE.

@TonySoFla That does not change the reality that the VAST majority of our resources are spent helping people, not on warfighting.

We spend 66% of our money on social welfare and education. 8% goes to the military. 9% goes to paying interest on the debt incurred by funding the 66%.

@UnaffiliatedMan @travelingflying Yes, what's your point?

@GamboRecket @travelingflying Yet, nowhere in the world do blacks have higher median incomes than they do in the U.S. Also, more wealthy (I.e., millionaire) blacks live in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined.

Thomas Sowell is brilliant

@Rothmus It just means that right-wing information is ALWAYS based on misinformation.

Misinformation experts did little more than spread leftist propaganda, enforce the prevailing narrative, and silence dissenting voices. Never again.

@nicole_clash Shooting AI users is not a good idea. Shooting AI CEOs, bombing data centers... some people might see that as legitimate, I don't know.

“Why would we let AI take our jobs and rely on the government?” What people don’t realize is, AI is GOING to take your jobs, most of them. It’s already starting. And unless the government is willing to SHOOT every single person that uses AI (unrealistic), most traditional jobs will be more efficiently done by an AI or an automation. It is incredibly naive to think that “bombing the data centers” will stop the progression. You can shut down all the major AI labs today and it would barely make a difference. I can go on and on about why yes, the AI and the robots are in fact coming for your jobs. If you knew what I knew, you would believe me. For the purpose of this argument, let’s just assume that I am right, that AI is going to take the majority of jobs. When people lose their jobs, most people are gonna be royally fucked. They have rent to pay, kids to take care of. Food, water, etc. We need the government to step in. The alternative is, people die. Or they resort to stealing, looting, etc. “But if the government pays everyone, that’s communism/ socialism!” Wrong. If the government shuts down the free market, and gave everyone food water and shelter, that would be communism. It is infinitely better for the government to give people cash than raw resources. It lets the average person have the purchasing power to shape the free market. Why is the distinction important? Because the beauty of capitalism is, it pushes innovation and surfaces the best products to consumers. It lets the average person be able to start their own business. For example, suddenly there are more artists in the world. More musicians. More game developers. The people having cash in their hands means that they can use it to support their favorite art, music, games. “I doubt the government is actually gonna pay people, they’re corrupt and evil.” Yes, the government is corrupt. But what you have to realize is, even the government has incentives. When AI increases the efficiency of every single company, there will be more taxes collected from the corporations (see below tweet). It is in the government’s best interest to reinvest that money back into the economy in the form of UBI/ UHI. Most people who are against what I’m saying, and what @elonmusk said, assumes that the choice is between “AI taking our jobs and we rely on the government.” vs “We keep our jobs.” That is not what the choice is though. The real question is, what should the government do to make this brutal transition period the least painful as possible? It gets very very nuanced, but it absolutely has to start with the government giving people cash. That is the only way. The alternative is a communist police state with people starving, dying, looting, and rioting. And absolutely no one, not even the government, wants that.

@zuess05 A photocopier cannot improve the original image, only deteriorate it. Same overall principle with AI.

@GamboRecket Yeah mistakes are unavoidable now Maybe not so much in the future?

Genuine question. Tech companies are laying off thousands of engineers, and the ones left behind are basically just reviewing AI-generated code. But what happens in 6 months when the AI stops making mistakes? If your entire $200k job has been reduced to proofreading Claude's output, what exactly are they paying you for?

@big_togos @brokeEM615 @rushicrypto True. What motivates a billionaire to continue exploiting people and nature? It's not about owning more thing, they already have everything they could dream of. It's about power over others. It's a psychopathological thing.

@brokeEM615 @rushicrypto I see why you think that way but look one thing you should know is that the rich are greedy people. You should also put in mind that robots and AI can't fully replace humans

If Ai replaces all the jobs, where do corporations expect people to earn money to continue being consumers? I am just not understanding why that simple question is not being asked.

@brokeEM615 @rushicrypto AI and robots are like the top of the technological pyramid. In order to exist, they require every other lower levels. Basically, AI requires the totality of the industrial civilization, which depends on people doing things. Remove the people and the pyramid collapses.

@rushicrypto They don't expect us normal broke folks to be alive anymore. The 1% will force a global cataclysm while they hide in their bunkers and we all die. Then they will have AI and robots do all the shit we used to do. No need for us at that point.

@Jellyflavo10186 @Rothmus Cry more

@GamboRecket @Rothmus Yes

@travelingflying Let me reframe that.

@AylorRon @BladeoftheS Maaaan you're dumb 😂 Wow! Of course we have to work for the capitalists, they own everything, fucktard.

@BladeoftheS The person doesn't have to work for the villain.

@TheAliceSmith Yes. Justice warriors talk about injustice. Capitalists create it. So? What's your point?

Communists write about capital. Capitalists create it.

@Jellyflavo10186 @Rothmus Actually, no 😀

@GamboRecket @Rothmus Historically illiterate

@Tusharufo2 Lol things are not that simple. Just look at reality. Are things too expensive? Yes. Are capitalists rich and the working class poorer each year especially when the state doesn't intervene? Yes. Just look at reality man.

In a free market, I can’t sell bread at 100× the normal price. Competitors will undercut me, and even if I buy them out, new ones will keep entering. That cycle never ends. Predatory pricing fails because the moment I raise prices, customers leave. Cartels fail because members cheat and new entrants break in. The only reliable way to maintain a monopoly is through the state. By trading favors with politicians, I can use government power to block competitors under the guise of regulation, public safety, or national interest. In reality, those rules exist to protect cronies like me. This can only happen publicly when the government passes regulations, because regulations are the public face of cronyism. Thus contrary to what dumb socialists think, solution is to protest and ask removal of regulations not billionaires and capitalism itself.

@MrEugeneStoner @UnhingedMuppets @KatelynTweeter That's what I said: you view animals merely as commodities. You want to prove me right or what? You seem a little bit confused, man 🤣 You’re obviously missing the point.

@GamboRecket @UnhingedMuppets @KatelynTweeter I raise LIVESTOCK, you freaking imbicile! LIVESTOCK: Farm animals regarded as an asset. But here you are, Scooter, showing off that double-digit IQ again!

The whole debate centers around if an unborn baby is a human or not. If not, abortion is no big deal. If so, abortion is a cruel evil. However, everyone knows deep in their heart (even without modern science & technology) that abortion kills a baby—not a clump of cells.

@Quwerty__ @Accountable2019 You serious? Let see... Mayby because, in principle, the government works for the people and provides them with essential services. Except, of course, when it works for the wealthy, which has become the norm, as this post demonstrates.

@Accountable2019 Why is it bad for a private corporation to be 'rich' but good for the government to be 'rich'?

Evolución de impuestos en USA. A la derecha, los millonarios. Es una guerra de clases y los ricos están arrasando toda vida.

@Accountable2019 And everybody wonders why things are going to sh*t.

@MrEugeneStoner @UnhingedMuppets @KatelynTweeter You label these sentient, sensitive animals as "livestock" so you don't have to think about them. You slot them into a convenient, predefined category. But who they really are has nothing to do with the utilitarian view you hold of them. Shame on you.

@GamboRecket @UnhingedMuppets @KatelynTweeter THAT is your comeback? Your reply? Comparing the killing of a human fetus with the killing of livestock? Good LORD! I miss the days when the 'opposition' had more than a double-digit IQ!