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[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Seriously, the movie Idiocracy is a documentary, not a comedy. It's painful how realistic it is.

I say this to my SO all the time, but they have “faith in humanity” for some reason.

Especially re: how AI/robotics will be the “great equalizer”. They think eventually goods will be so cheap and we will have UBI and no one will have to work… I think, no matter how cheap goods are, the corporations will find ways to make money and/or keep people poor. They say, “If the corporations do that, people will rise up and make them.” I say, “Are you actually sure about that? We let corporations do all kinds of other nasty things without repercussions…”

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

"Yeah! People will rise up! Second amendment baby!" - brings an AR-15 to a drone fight while those companies, whether it's the US government or private, know which porn they watch every night. Their life is ruined when they are cut off from tiktok and Instagram, they will starve to death when they cannot pay for food anymore because the internet is cut off, so banking and digital payment is gone.

Look at Google, having a monopoly right now, free to do whatever the fuck they want. Disney+ apparently having in their license agreement they are not liable if they killed someone in one of their parks. Mercedes Benz is planning to build a mega tower in Dubai, using slave labor like is the standard there. Like they have been doing in China with Oighurs in concentration camps, with their history during the Second World War. Apple using child labor and exploiting miners of rare earth metal mines in third world countries.

Yeah, people will rise up. No one accepts oppression. *coughs in Russian, Korean, Chinese, etc.

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