They’re trying to pivot to world domination.
Total enslavement of humanity, automated by their tech companies.
I’m not kidding. -_-
They also want us all to work in low Earth orbit. Check out Blue Horizons’ website.
Jetsons!
By that point the earth will be so polluted they will make profits by selling us clean air/02 in canisters, clean water, food an housing. Those of us that can’t afford it will just die.
So poor people will become disposable?
Become?
Solution: pay the politicians to declare a costly war, draft the poors, throw them into the meat grinder, they die off, AI owners profit by having everything be cheaper because all the poors died off.
Honestly there’s no need because world population growth is declining anyways, so in a generation or two, even with AI, they’re going to have the opposite problem.
world population growth is declining anyways, so in a generation or two,
Yeah, but this way is faster. Why wait when there is quarterly profit reports due to the shareholders?
What shareholders? Oh, right.
Corporate welfare of course
Capitalism is a rabid dog, that only managed to serve the middle class well in the past because it was kept muzzled and on a tight leash.
Successive, and successful attempts to ‘unleash the beast’ have left us bit, and apologies for mixing metaphors here, but there is probably no way left, to get the genie back into the bottle:
Undoing 50+ years of damage would take time, especially when faced with resistance from those that stand to benefit most from the current broken system (think the Top 1% of the 1%), and that is time that we simply do not seem to have.
Dude I’m afraid this is just going to lead to the end of the world.
For what it’s worth; the world will survive and adapt. Whether that means the extinction of humanity, is a whole separate matter altogether.
Our species entire existence is a mere blip compared to dinosaurs for an example.
I know, but we did some cool things. Our advances in Math and Physics to unlock the secrets of the universe. Our engineering prowess. The Linux Kernel is a standing achievement of humanity’s ability to contribute to something greater than themselves for no real financial gain. Plus our music and our humour and our entertainment have been just fantastic.
It’d be cool if we could at least have some permanent record of that if we don’t make it, so that future aliens could know that despite us being continual fuckwits, we did do some pretty amazing things.
Yeah we were a blip. But I don’t want that blip to mean nothing.
A few of us did some pretty amazing things and the rest of us are fuckwits
Well, we have the golden records on the Voyager probes, a similar one on New horizons, and our geo-stationary sats will pretty much last until the end of our solar system. So there will be some evidence of us for at least a few hundred million years or so.
Well, actually, our descendants will survive and adapt to the new Middle Ages when civilization collapses along with AI.
These “people” in charge of corporations genuinely forgot that the workers they underpay are the consumers who they on rely to give them money.
It’s almost like someone a 130ish years ago predicted that capitalism would be like this. I wonder who that is?
Karlos Marxcia.
Falling rate of profit by karl marx predicted this. Self destructive nature of capitalism
A socialist revolution is the only solution and it will come.
you’d think so, but what is being actually done to achieve this? As far as i have seen, people dont seem to have interest even in their own well being if it requires any attention span and they lap up any and all propaganda to the extent you are considered kind of crazy if you think corporations might not have your interests at their heart.
If the revolution is coming, it wont have any supporters because vast majority will just side with the corporations or plain not care. Not saying this to deter anyone from doing something but to point that winning back peoples minds is the first step that needs to be taken if anything is to be done at all.
A socialist revolution is the only solution and it will come.
Not the only. The rich still can lead us to fascism. The only problem is that fascism has its own internal contradictions and history won’t stop there.
But the near-global technofascist dictatorship were on the threshold of is going to be vastly different than anything we’ve seen before. How do you resist a technological panopticon?
By smoking pot and breeding like rockstars
Not just that, even as a company I would be seriously anxious when I know my business can be fully run by AI. That means that others can replicate your business very easily, which generates lots of competition, resulting in a race to the bottom. Which might even be good for consumers somehow.
Try thinking about that again but through the lens of a capitalist.
HURRRR DURRRRRRRR MONEY NUMBERS UP BEST WEORLD!
ouch that hurt.
And as a second point, we all know that when companies or people depend on AI the price to use that AI will go up to the point where it is almost as expensive as having actual people doing the job. All these billions poured in AI need to be earned back, so now your business will fail unless you basically pay them whatever they ask.
It will get to the point where they will simply take your business away or make you dependent through carrots and sticks or whatever.
The executives sell the corporate plane piece by piece while still in the air, then jump out in a golden parachute while the remains of the company nose dive to a fiery end.
This; look at how short-term they’re already thinking.
They will see the writing on the wall long before they actually have any genuine fear for business. And they’ll take the money and run, just like they already do now.
Kill off all of the poors they no longer need and live in a utopia being served by robots.
Unironically the closest answer to reality except they’ll just let us die
Yeah, I wasn’t joking. That’s our future if we don’t get our shit together and bring them down first.
Given cuts to medicaid and vaccine approvals being rolled back, one had best hurry.
We have time until 2027, then everything will be sad. Although surprises await us already in 2026. :3
Dont you need poors for there to be rich? Even if they didnt need us to work cause some amazing AI, they need to flex it to real people right? Or will they stroke their ego with ai VTubers?
Well, people are drunk with power and have really gone crazy a long time ago. In short, in the rich areas they will be replaced by robots, and in the poor areas people will work as slaves for food.
The time machine by hg Wells. The rich force the poor underground into manual labor until both evolve and the poor start eating the rich
The Penultimate Truth is a really awesome book about pretty much this, except they stuck the poors underground in Tanks.
tanks?
varoom vroom! or gurgle gurlge?They are sort of like Vaults in Fallout, it’s seriously one of my favorite books. Phillip K Dick
So gurgle gurgle then
Oh, you have no idea. If you don’t have a job (or 5), then you’re going to prison for being a vagrant. Or they do some dystopian shit where you are in the equivalent work labor camp, where you are provided basic life necessities in exchange for paying off your debt by working based on your skills. No skills? Manual labor in farms or construction.
People really have no idea what we’re complacently walking into. If you’re not rich, and I mean a few million american dollarooos or trump bucks… say next 10 years…? You’re fucked.
You’re damn right, in that case it’s better to gather a group of people and go build villages far away from civilization and live in them so that these bastards with their drones don’t get us.
Well, if people remain in civilization, some will be led to the slaughter, and others will be forced to take the mark like cattle, and they will be like sheep awaiting slaughter.
sounds like a lot more work than setting up drones full of petrochemical cleaning agents that spark.
The idea is just to get there first. If you make it one quarter before your competition then you get a a really good quarter.
Long terms plans don’t matter to CEOs. Long term stability is not rewarded by capitalism.
Also if they believe the outcome is inevitable in the near future it’s a certain kind of sensible to race to be first. It’s a variant on the prisoners dilemma where they can see each other racing to rat the others out in the hope that the first will get a discount on sentence length.
You pay me $10 to punch you in the face. I pay you $10 to kick me in the balls. We just increased our country’s GDP by $20.
I’d pay $5 to watch that. Hey, I think we have something going here.
Answer. They don’t fucking have a plan. At all.
And they don’t care. They care about profits now, not profits 5 years from now. That is a problem for future CEOs to solve.
Yep, need line to go up this quarter and the few following, no further planning needed.
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It is all a con. There is no endgame. They aren’t thinking that far ahead. And when the reality hits them it will land on them like a cartoon piano. They’ll never see it coming.
I mean some people have more money than ever to buy stuff. That’s the market that most of these things are being targeted to. Just consider everyone that isn’t extremely wealthy an obsolete product being phased out of production.
Keep restricting birth control and encouraging higher birthrates as early death numbers continue to climb in the U.S. due to a lack of safety regulations and overdoses.
Restrict what can be purchased using government aid to healthy options. Not bc you care about helping poor people to be healthy, but bc you know you might end up needing them for spare parts.
‘Horrifying’ mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say
Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.
She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.
“He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Miller told NPR in an interview. "And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly."
The donor’s condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.
"So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to ‘find another doctor to do it’ – that, 'We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,’ " Miller says. “And she’s like, ‘There is no one else.’ She’s crying — the coordinator — because she’s getting yelled at.”
Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.
Wow, that was a crazy rabbit hole to go down. Here’s another NYTimes article on the subject:
Not only do they mention multiple survivors, but one woman went on the make a full recovery!
Sickening stuff
It also helps that they don’t understand the reality of organ reception or being an irl cyborg. Anti rejection meds make you immunocompromised. Cochlear implants sound off and require extra mental effort to process compared to biological hearing (and have less true sound). Robotic arms are heavy and inconvenient to the point many prefer simple prosthetics.
Maybe someday we will have versions of some of these things that are genuinely equivalent to being abled. But I don’t know if I will live to see them.
There has been concern that China has been running medical exams on Uyghur prisoners in camps to find close matches for recipients and decrease chances of complications
Rogers noted one chilling possibility: that “murdered prisoners of conscience (i.e., Uyghurs held in detention camps)” could be a source of transplanted organs.
This suggestion becomes even more concerning when considering the extensive surveillance and repression that Uyghurs face in the region. Detainees in the many internment camps in Xinjiang have reported being subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention.
Wendy Rogers is an Australian bioethicist that has been researching forced organ transplants for a long time, so if she says there is reason to be concerned, I believe her https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/wendy-rogers
Make money and sell it off before it falls like a house of cards
