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  • boonhet@lemmy.ziptoFuck AI@lemmy.worldsuccinctly
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    Well yes, that’s the goal of all technological progress. Ya think we have assembly lines in factories for the fun of it? Or machines automating what used to be artisanal work? CNC machines making parts that used to be forged for example. Do you think the goal of the tractor is anything more than to get by with fewer workers on the fields?

    Hell, go as far back as the invention of the printing press and the owners of these could stop relying on monks copying everything by hand.

    You can avoid AI altogether or if you can find a genuinely good use case for it, you can potentially use it to start a company with fewer employees, meaning less starting capital needed.

    At the end of the day your problem is with capitalism and the boomers who want to retire on even larger piles of cash, not the tool that could actually be used to reduce the need for capital if it was as good as the people selling it wasn’t you to think.








  • Replying from my other account because I’m too lazy to relog into sopuli on my phone but:

    It’s not that simple. Take the US. Billionaires collectively own about 10 trillion. Boomers collectively over 80 trillion. You take every single cent away from billionaires and you barely make a difference in people’s ability to retire. I mean you should still do that. But money that isn’t backed by labor or goods moving around in the economy is kinda useless and you need people to produce said goods and provide services. All that billionaire moolah is mostly predicated on everyone holding all their stock because stock values fall apart when people sell. You could sell a few million worth of stock and cause that company’s value to go down a billion. It’s smokes and mirrors.


  • Other age groups don’t entire half the damn economy. Boomers are a class unto themselves.

    Billionaires collectively own about 10 trillion in the US, Boomers collectively over 80 trillion.

    Just going with the US because it’s the best known example. It’s not very dissimilar in other western countries but the US is the worst I believe.