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[–] 96 points 8 months ago (16 children)

Boycotting AI and finally popping that bubble will lower RAM prices. And energy prices. And it will preserve employment...

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Boycotting doesnt work in a post-consumer market. It's over. Find a new hobby.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    No one will boycott if the 5 richest people in the world says it needs to be there

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Preserving employment is not a meaningful goal. Jobs go away or change all the time. Between 1970 and 2010, average worker, be them blue or white collar, became 10x more productive. Do we work 3days a month for a full salary now? Ok we work just as hard but do we live better and more equally?

    On free-market economy, every kind of development, every kind of change ends up screwing over working people and benefiting the wealthy. We need to work on changing the way we organize society at a more fundamental level. If it wasn't generative model bubble it would be another bullshit bubble, it will never end unless working masses decide to take some direct action.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago*

    I agree that the military will always pay up, but you know that the bubble can pop without all companies going under, right? Have you heard of the dot com bubble, for example? There are plenty of those companies around still, and yet, the bubble popped.

    To be clear, I'm not claiming this bubble would be identical. All I'm saying is that not all companies would have to go under for it to pop. It's really the (wealthy) shareholders that get to decide when to pull the money, and that's what would cause a bubble to pop, not pure revenue. Shareholders want a return on investment, which is something that hasn't really happened yet (other than the circlejerk between big companies, I suppose).

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