this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
951 points (99.7% liked)
Technology
85060 readers
4704 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Good thing they're rolling out premium accounts so they can pay for humans to do support.
They're gonna use it for humans right?!
RIGHT?!?!
lol no, zucc needs more money because his number isn't high enough!
If humanity survives, I honestly think the greed will (and should now) be considered a mental illness.
Jesus, give me $5 million dollars, and I'd live on it for the rest of my life. That'd be 0.01% of his net worth, and I'd be so happy. I think many of us would.
But these people just want more. And more. They're psychotic, and they're ruining the world. We all know what they deserve.
I wonder how much of the greed comes as a reaction against the [manufactured] scarcity.
I don't think it's all or none. I suspect it the vast majority though.
I don't think Jesus ever had $5 million.
Even when adjusting for inflation?
Excellent point. I will run the numbers again.
At that point it would just be excusing bad behaviour, would it not? I wouldn't say putting it on the same level as mental illness is fair, either. People with mental illnesses don't want to be mentally ill. On the other hand, greed is a trait that directly shows itself in a person's decisions. You can choose to be greedy, you can't choose to have, say, arachnophobia.
Sociopathy (antisocial personality diaorder) is already a diagnosed illness with it's main criteria being lack of empathy
That’s not greed though. I’ll say it again but more explicitly: Greed is not an illness, it’s a kind of behaviour that anyone can exhibit through their actions. It doesn’t matter whether they’re an average person or someone with an anti-social disorder, that applies regardless.
It's financial obesity, and should be treated as such
With the content on meta, using AI may actually be more ethical than subjecting humans to it.