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Fuck AI. (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

The rich have it going both ways. They have convinced a subset of the lower classes to fight amongst and blame each other. Meanwhile they very shortdightedly are maximizing profits (not from the lower classes anymore because they have essentially bled us dry) but from other rich people who want to invest to maximize profits.

They have forgotten that the only way capitalism remains sustainable over time is if they continue to both provide products and services lower class individuals will spend money on, and if they continue to pay those lower class individuals money so they have money to spend. Right now they're busy grifting each other and our government is too stupid to look to the future, realize that the bubble has to pop sometime, and realize what that will mean for the market, the tax system, the tax payers, and the populace at large.

This is class warfare for profits over literally everything and it is going to crash the economy probably sooner rather than later.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    There are two kinds of parasites:

    1. A smart parasite keeps its host alive. It limits the substance it leeches, prioritizing long term survival over short term satisfaction.
    2. A dumb parasite takes as much as it can. Even if it causes the host to die, and the parasite to die with it.

    Of course - "smart" and "dumb" are used liberally here. The organism itself is not intelligent, and neither is the process who designed it. At least - that's how it works in nature.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    So basically neoliberals are smart parasites and republicans are dumb parasites

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's more of an informed host and an uninformed host.

    The parasites are the corps. Some of us know that we're the product and we do what we can to mitigate that. But there's not a real feasible way to opt out of society. People gotta eat. People gotta sleep. They gotta provide for their families. They gotta have shelter. They gotta figure out ways not to freeze to death. Ways to stay healthy.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    We have the power to cut out the corporations and oligarchs from the means of production. We really don’t need them. They are parasites. We simply (the majority) stop allowing worker exploitation and the ownership class to exist. They need the workers to enforce their social contract but the social contract has been broken for a long time. We simply stop recognizing their corrupt laws, property rights and money and start trading. They don’t have the manpower to stop us from continuing to produce food and necessities en masse while ignoring their broken system of extravagance, gambling and exploitation.

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