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Anon doesn't like AI (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 minutes ago

Capitalism is a rabid dog, that only managed to serve the middle class well in the past because it was kept muzzled and on a tight leash.

Successive, and successful attempts to ‘unleash the beast’ have left us bit, and apologies for mixing metaphors here, but there is probably no way left, to get the genie back into the bottle:

Undoing 50+ years of damage would take time, especially when faced with resistance from those that stand to benefit most from the current broken system (think the Top 1% of the 1%), and that is time that we simply do not seem to have.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

Yeah the thing that pisses me off the most is the wealthy elite only got wealthy because of the disposable income of a healthy middle class. Without that the whole system collapses. So striving for more and more wealth is only going to hurt everyone in the long run. The worst part is they will be the last to be hurt.

[-] clot27@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Falling rate of profit by karl marx predicted this. Self destructive nature of capitalism

A socialist revolution is the only solution and it will come.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

The closest thing to an endgame in capitalism is slavery.

[-] cnlwhs 9 points 3 hours ago
[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 18 points 4 hours ago

Oh, you have no idea. If you don’t have a job (or 5), then you’re going to prison for being a vagrant. Or they do some dystopian shit where you are in the equivalent work labor camp, where you are provided basic life necessities in exchange for paying off your debt by working based on your skills. No skills? Manual labor in farms or construction.

People really have no idea what we’re complacently walking into. If you’re not rich, and I mean a few million american dollarooos or trump bucks… say next 10 years…? You’re fucked.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

sounds like a lot more work than setting up drones full of petrochemical cleaning agents that spark.

The executives sell the corporate plane piece by piece while still in the air, then jump out in a golden parachute while the remains of the company nose dive to a fiery end.

[-] RealSpiderLane@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 hours ago

This; look at how short-term they’re already thinking.

They will see the writing on the wall long before they actually have any genuine fear for business. And they’ll take the money and run, just like they already do now.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 21 points 5 hours ago

Kill off all of the poors they no longer need and live in a utopia being served by robots.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Unironically the closest answer to reality except they'll just let us die

[-] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Dont you need poors for there to be rich? Even if they didnt need us to work cause some amazing AI, they need to flex it to real people right? Or will they stroke their ego with ai VTubers?

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, I wasn't joking. That's our future if we don't get our shit together and bring them down first.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Given cuts to medicaid and vaccine approvals being rolled back, one had best hurry.

[-] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Money is being printed 24/7.

[-] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 hours ago

The idea is just to get there first. If you make it one quarter before your competition then you get a a really good quarter.

Long terms plans don't matter to CEOs. Long term stability is not rewarded by capitalism.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Also if they believe the outcome is inevitable in the near future it's a certain kind of sensible to race to be first. It's a variant on the prisoners dilemma where they can see each other racing to rat the others out in the hope that the first will get a discount on sentence length.

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 4 points 4 hours ago

It's never supposed to take all the jobs I think. But to eliminate what jobs they can and skim the difference.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago

Nobody is thinking beyond next quarter.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

What's funny is that virtually everyone acknowledges it. Even Trump acknowledges it when he said that "China thinks in decades". But the Western capitalist culture is too strongly ingrained that the instinct to be greedy overrides any rational sense.

[-] philosloppy@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago

the short-term plan is to slurp up all the stuff while they can. The long term plan is that there is no place for plebs in the automated future. The unwritten prologue to their sci-fi adventure is us commoners being abandoned to starve on a poisoned and resource-depleted mud ball as the intrepid billionaires go off to explore the cosmos with their robot pals.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Honestly you're giving them way too much credit. There's no long-term plan. They're incapable of having long-term plans. Most these people can't think past next quarter.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

They could build their perfect utopia if kids these days just worked harder and complained less.

Tho on a sidenote what are the psychological affects of being stuck in a normally-inhabitable place where only the equipment can protect you.

How long does it take before at least one person goes insane and starts stabbing people is what I am asking.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours ago

Soylent Green.

[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 36 points 10 hours ago

It is all a con. There is no endgame. They aren't thinking that far ahead. And when the reality hits them it will land on them like a cartoon piano. They'll never see it coming.

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I mean some people have more money than ever to buy stuff. That's the market that most of these things are being targeted to. Just consider everyone that isn't extremely wealthy an obsolete product being phased out of production.

Keep restricting birth control and encouraging higher birthrates as early death numbers continue to climb in the U.S. due to a lack of safety regulations and overdoses.

Restrict what can be purchased using government aid to healthy options. Not bc you care about helping poor people to be healthy, but bc you know you might end up needing them for spare parts.

'Horrifying' mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say

Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.

She quickly realized something wasn't right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.

"He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed," Miller told NPR in an interview. "And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly."

The donor's condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.

"So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to 'find another doctor to do it' – that, 'We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,' " Miller says. "And she's like, 'There is no one else.' She's crying — the coordinator — because she's getting yelled at."

Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.

[-] BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 2 points 10 minutes ago

Wow, that was a crazy rabbit hole to go down. Here's another NYTimes article on the subject:

https://archive.ph/hX7FD

Not only do they mention multiple survivors, but one woman went on the make a full recovery!

Sickening stuff

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It also helps that they don't understand the reality of organ reception or being an irl cyborg. Anti rejection meds make you immunocompromised. Cochlear implants sound off and require extra mental effort to process compared to biological hearing (and have less true sound). Robotic arms are heavy and inconvenient to the point many prefer simple prosthetics.

Maybe someday we will have versions of some of these things that are genuinely equivalent to being abled. But I don't know if I will live to see them.

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

There has been concern that China has been running medical exams on Uyghur prisoners in camps to find close matches for recipients and decrease chances of complications

https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/xinjiangs-organ-transplant-expansion-sparks-alarm-over-uyghur-forced-organ-harvesting/

Rogers noted one chilling possibility: that “murdered prisoners of conscience (i.e., Uyghurs held in detention camps)” could be a source of transplanted organs.

This suggestion becomes even more concerning when considering the extensive surveillance and repression that Uyghurs face in the region. Detainees in the many internment camps in Xinjiang have reported being subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention.

Wendy Rogers is an Australian bioethicist that has been researching forced organ transplants for a long time, so if she says there is reason to be concerned, I believe her https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/wendy-rogers

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[-] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 49 points 12 hours ago

You pay me $10 to punch you in the face. I pay you $10 to kick me in the balls. We just increased our country's GDP by $20.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I'd pay $5 to watch that. Hey, I think we have something going here.

[-] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 54 points 13 hours ago

Answer. They don't fucking have a plan. At all.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 24 points 12 hours ago

And they don't care. They care about profits now, not profits 5 years from now. That is a problem for future CEOs to solve.

[-] jabeez@lemmy.today 14 points 12 hours ago

Yep, need line to go up this quarter and the few following, no further planning needed.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

They've already made a shitload of money. Now they're consolidating their extreme privilege into violent political control.

And when bubble pops, the rich will be paid immediately via an inflation tax on the poor as per usual...

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/13/1163180140/silicon-valley-bank-is-it-a-bailout-barofsky

[-] frezik 17 points 12 hours ago

It's UBI, and no, UBI is not a real socialist plan. It keeps the rest of us poor with little possibility of social mobility.

[-] jnod4@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 hours ago

Hahahahhaha they will give you an unlock code for an euthanasia capsule if you're lucky they don't imprison you for homelessness where you can have a job doing the last things that can't be automated. Look what they're doing to the "undesired" in usa; everyone on earth knows about gaza and the outcry is minimal, once you're poor, and you will be poor, nobody will cry when you dissappear.

A small photo showing inmates in Louisiana

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[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

They'll give us a means tested barely functional bunch of shit they call UBI once the food riots start. It will help almost nobody and run at 60+% admin overhead.

They will tell us this is efficient.

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[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

UBI is not a real socialist plan

UBI is not a socialist plan at all. UBI is what happens when you:

  • accept the capitalist worldview that interfering with the market and the price system leads to distortions that ruin everything

but

  • think that people deserve to exist even when they are not useful to you
[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Manual labour is a place where people have an edge on machines because it’s cheaper to replace a person than a machine.

Medical experiments also benefit from having people to test on more than machines.

[-] abbiistabbii 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's to take everyone's data and sell it. Like the stuff you tell an AI chatbot can be linked to you and analysed and sold to the highest bidder.

They're panicking because people don't want to use it because a the average person doesn't really have a use for it.

[-] Manticore@lemmy.nz 7 points 10 hours ago

AI is propped up by investors. Always promising the.next big thing is just around the corner. The money is pouring in from other wealthy people...let's be real us common folk rarely if ever pay for AI. Its businesses doing that

but one day those investors will expect a return, so AI is being shoved in everything in the hopes of finding a use case that is actually profitable

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