[โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Go to most grocery stores you'll see them with all the gift cards, the visa prepaid cards are either set at certain limits, like $50 or so, or if I remember correctly there are some where they set the value at checkout.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 5 months ago

    If you have a generation or two of kids who were told to get educated about statistics then have them be unable to pay off student loans, buy a house, afford to raise a kid (much less 2.1 of them), or own much of anything as time goes on in their adult life while the stock market booms and the richest people who underpaid those generations and treated them as disposable then ask them to have more kids for the economy which only worked for the rich people you can see the problem. You can see why states that oppose abortion and support child marriage, hate education, but love guns, end up being places which may have higher teen births but will not keep their young there for long, that is until you consider liberal safe havens having all the housing bought and paid for by multinational conglomerates, or billionaires who leech off the earnings of the future while being a significant drain on the economy and their own future profits and growth. The fact that this has happened globally just means that global investments without global enforcement of things such as labor laws and minimum wages seems to have been a net negative with a delayed interest payment on that issue coming due. I think what will eventually happen is what happened after the black death, more rights, freedoms, and finances for the average person and the rich having to suck it up, not with a period of terror but just a lack of both the labor needed for the market and consumers to buy the products they want to sell (I know it sounds like they are irreconcilable but if someone invested all their money in companies that produce things or services spending money to keep those businesses afloat may be better than having their financial empire crumble), and maybe actually finding a solution to things like global warming, and who was in the Epstein files and what came after he was caught. Maybe real accountability, or maybe that's a pipe dream.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 5 months ago

    Aren't these they same guys who were appalled when a Mario brother allegedly killed a healthcare CEO and then were more horrified when people were more than OK with it?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Rats fleeinga sinking ship are still rats. Remember them, they need to work to make up for what they did, don't welcome them back without them doing that work, be it MTG, Gabbard, or any other douchebag from Trumps orbit. They'll plead forgiveness for being Christians after ignoring all christian tenants that didn't help their political aspirations, so at the very least they should actually work to make up for their bullshit, they'll never make up for it fully but from members of the supreme court, house, Senate, and the executive branch that enabled all the criminal behavior of the government to the Nick Fuentes, Joe Rogan, and other "influencers", down to the douchebag uncles edgy manosphere trolls and on need to actually work for redemption one they might never actually achieve but should continue to strive for.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 5 months ago

    I'd go further and say the seeds of the Roman Republic's downfall was set during the second Punic war when so much wealth and territory was amassed and it mostly went to the top, follow up when the Gracchi brothers did their failed bid to change things, or the several genocides the republic did, such as the 3rd Punic war or what Julius Caesar did against the Gauls again concentration of wealth of power and eroding of any checks against generals seizing control.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago

    That assumes that there are only those two options, you have the paperclip problem as an option, the best case scenario is that the super human AI model just ignores us or wants to cooperate with us the way we try to cooperate with species like wolves to manage ecosystems.

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