floofloof comments on The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's almost funny watching the USA trying to remain a world leader while cutting its investments in absolutely everything: healthcare, education, energy generation and distribution, welfare, science, roads, electricity, railways, air traffic control, sanitation, everything that's needed for a basic quality of life and to be even running in the same race as other countries. The USA seems to think it can get by with just the police and military. It won't work.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The US are to not trying be a leader in anything any more. The current administration is actively destroying the country and the self-appointed patriots are cheering

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago

It does seem like the main goal is to plunder what's left before it all crashes hard, and to be a member of the owner class that can parse a crash for everyone else into more wealth and power for yourself.

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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 6 points 1 year ago

but the PROFITS! Those billionaires are more globalized than ever.

American labor gets paid too much for the ownership taste. They want to pay everybody like call center workers in the caribbean or tech workers in india. Or really... they don't want to pay anyone absolutely anything. they'd gladly pay 100% of current wages to have AI do the work, after all, there's no payroll tax, no yearly increases for healthcare, and you get to put the hardware costs on the books as an asset and write off the depreciation each year.

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago*

Bourgeois capture of the imperial money chest always ends like this. Can't make policy changes on the Bourgeois, they'll fuck off with the money they stole. Can't afford the infrastructure to remain competitive, that would require the money the Bourgeois has. All that's left is to blame increasingly smaller outgroups until the whole thing implodes and some new empire stands on the heap.

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