• futatorius@lemm.ee
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    14 days ago

    In other words, a massive handout of taxpayer money to the tech bros for nothing worthwhile.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      First Trump term? Better get used to it or prepare to not browse the internet for a while. It will get much dumber from here.

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      14 days ago

      Perhaps less so if in a couple months it turns out that the contract went to one of Musk’s companies. Having a large amount of money to spend on something intangible can also be very useful.

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      The question is absolutely clear: How can we get rid of paying people for work?

      It’s a two-step approach: There are the low-skill jobs that could get replaced by machines, with desperate people flooding the markets, putting downward pressure on peoples’ incomes, and there are the high-skill jobs where currently not enough staff is available - at least when one does not want to pay suitable rates.

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    “Defense network computers. New.… powerful… hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.”

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      The bots will do all the fun stuff, so humans can work 12-16 hour ultra-hardcore shifts in factories owned by the American oligarchs.