• cloudshouter@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    Every one driving the train has a little goblin inside, jumping up and down on the table shreeking “I WANT MORE MONEY!!!”

  • Zensate@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Don’t you know? The world is just one big resort for the Epstein class and we are the staff

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      There’s the Hunter and then the hunted. The predator and the prey. Most people in the world are prey. You throw out one cycle of predator and then the prey takes over they eventually become the predator. I think it’s a something fundamentally embedded in the life cycle of creatures. I don’t like being prey but I’m not interested in being a predator. So now what?

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        Many adult prey animals have developed formidable defenses against predators: the horse a powerful kick, the bull its horns, the possum its acting. So I guess your options are either play dead or learn to shoot.

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    I work at a DMV call center. People call me with vehicle registration or driver’s license problems and I help them out. AI is supposed to replace me so the state bought an AI voice recognition system. It can transcribe calls but cannot do anything with the information so a new part of my job is responding to what the AI interprets and then use AI canned responses to reply to the caller via email so I can train the AI.

    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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      Fascinating. I recently had to replace an expired license. They said I could renew it online, but that didn’t work. They said I could make an appointment online, but that didn’t work either. I called in and couldn’t get in touch with anyone real. So I finally just went to the DMV and got my license renewed in person. Mentioned all this stuff to the guy behind the counter and he’s like “yeah… they’re having a lot of problems with the computer systems…” and now after reading your comment I’m like. Oh duh. Of course. They’re using AI. No wonder none of this shit works!

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    If you think to yourself that those problems are the result of merely an economic system, you really need to get your brain checked.

    • Cheebus@lemmy.world
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      shit man we’re not even really a capitalist economy, if we were truly i could buy any wifi router i want, or chinese auto, or those small trucks to name a few

      this system is big businesses continually lifting the ladder up behind them

    • SectoidLexi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      What else would it be? Capitalism is built on maximizing profit in a market system. Thus everything else comes at the expense of that. There are entire towns and villages in Mexico going with little to no water because coca-cola is extracting most of their natural water sources to make sugary soft drinks because it’s more profitable than meeting needs or preserving natural water sources. This isn’t complicated.

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        Definitely the type of dipshit who says “Oh, you don’t like capitalism? But you participate in it. Curious”

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      It would be extremely terrible to fulfill everyone basic needs and great to force people into the cold and freezing weather. We should imprison poor people for trying to survive, sleeping outside in a tent is for camping, duh, we must arrest them because they are obviously drug addicts.

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    When a host is infested by multiple parasites, the parasite which extracts the most from the host before the host dies has the greatest chance of survival.

    The point is to extract as much wealth as possible so they can survive in bunkers after they’ve ruined our planet’s ability to support life our way of life as we know it.

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    The point is to eventually create a society where one unfathomably wealthy family is immortal, served by millions to provide every whim.

    Those millions will be very short lived, like 30 tops; they will repair the robots and provide services and entertainment for the Family Supreme.

    Which family? It doesn’t matter. Saudi Royals, JP Morgan family, Trumps, Kardashians, one of those

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    Hey, are you denying me the opportunity to work very hard every day so one day I may become a billionaire?

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      The system is built to deny you that as well, yes, as long as the current billionaires in charge don’t like you.

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        I was just faced with this recently. I started doing freelance work due to disability and to have the freedom to say no to nightmare clients. Welp, I encountered such a client and they threw a whole fit at basic boundaries. But it directly cost me money and potentially the relationship to the person that introduced us so guess who still loses and faces consequences? Never the rich asshole! They can just keep throwing pennies at people until someone is desperate enough to get exploited.

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        But if I lick their boots enough, they will come to like and respect me, right?