pinkdrunkenelephants

Instance admins are already compromised sometimes. They can be bribed or get greedy.

He's not wrong. 🤷

They get to control the means of production and high technology.

True

We need a public non-profit chip manufacturing company.

Are there any chips that can be these days?

And that means those chips are likely compromised and full of backdoors by now.

I know. That's what I'm doing, critically examining these claims people keep making. I really don't have a stake in the game either way.

They aren't legitimate and the fact that the state considers them such is why the state itself is illegitimate, among other reasons.

And here's the problem I have with that: not all labor is exploitative. No matter what economy we have, there would still be laborers printing the book, binding it, cutting down the trees and making the paper, etc.

Even if they're not making an even split of company profits, some worker somewhere is happy with what they're getting.

And regardless of economy, some worker will be unhappy working somewhere, feel they're not getting their fair share, etc.

That doesn't change simply because we switch from capitalism to some other system.

The only fair way for that book to be made from the implications given is if all of the labor is automated, but at the end of the day a human being would have to do some work somewhere no matter how many levels of automation redundancy you have, so how is he not implying being expected to do anything is the problem, and using the blatant shitty behavior of the rich as a smokescreen for that?

We could live in a Jetsonian paradise where all he'd have to do is push a few buttons once a day and he'd still complain.

🤔 I don't necessarily believe that. An independent creator of a blockbuster franchise could in principle become a billionaire ethically. Like J.K. Rowling; she's estimated to have upwards of a $1.2 billion net worth. (say what you will about her) (I don't like her either but facts are facts)

It doesn't matter; they're controlling media and entertainment and that makes them always bad regardless of any extenuating circumstances.

All of those problems can be solved by breaking apart all of those corporations, putting all modern franchises in the public domain and legalizing pirating. Change the law solely for our benefit and not theirs. If they don't make content anymore, great; we'll shut off their shitty AIs and make shit ourselves like we were supposed to be doing the whole time.