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'I think those people are dead wrong': Jeff Bezos slams AI naysayers, plays down job fears for young workers, and defends billionaires and Trump (www.techradar.com)
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[–] plyth@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”

What does that mean? I can read it in too many directions.

IMO using the system in a way that abuses the system only perpetuates another system of abuse.

That's what currently is happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

More competition is needed, more market economy, to make the system fair again. It's not abusing the system to start a business.

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, it's just using the system as it is intended. But most businesses fail.

We need to abolish the system.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But most businesses fail.

That's ok. It's possible to invest in more than one company.

We need to abolish the system.

And do what?

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good old communism.

No advertising, no stocks, no fucking with money at all.

First step is to house and feed everyone, and build rails all over the world, to stop the car brain rot.

Then we figure out what's next.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no fucking with money at all

Like no money or like no derivatives?

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No derivates ever. Ideally no debt, either.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you think that can be implemented? Isn't it easier to increase competition?

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Lol? How is that working right now?

Biggest companies consolidating and cutting jobs everywhere? It's not a fluke.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

How is that working right now?

We have Capitalism, not a free market economy. The elite has regulated some industries like medicine or weapons and is making disproportional profits which gives them money to buy politicians.

Let the companies cut jobs. The fewer workers in an industry the better. We went from 99% farmers to 3% which allows us to have our civilisation.

We don't have 100% employment because of regulations. That greatly reduces negotiation power of the workers. If there is a shortage of jobs, use Keynes to create them.