Sure sure but it's the ultra rich who we need to fight. AI is a smokescreen for their greed.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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Did Bernie read my Terminator fanfic? The one where the 1% are living it up on some islands with T800 butlers while the Terminators clear out the rest of humanity?
Why bother with expensive machines? Just outlaw new vaccines, make it difficult for the common people to access modern medicine,and get them to believe in magic cures and faith healing.
Oh wait. That's not fiction. That's happening now.
I think we need to look at housing as a technology to spread as opposed to an investment to horde. Then do the same thing with utilities.
Tons of reasons not to do it but it makes society less dependent on employment.
the issue with housing is that other people hate other people. they don't want more people living around them. they hate growth. they think people should live 'somewhere else' than their town/city/neighborhood.
i live in a city with over 120K people. if a housing project goes up that that adds say, 20 units for 30-40 people, people FREAK OUT. and oppose it and usually it gets downzied to like 12 units for 20 people, and only then it's approved for development. this is in already very dense city, it's worse in less dense places. anytime a major project, for like 500+ units is proposed, it has to be downsized by like 50% before anyone will approve it because the citizens REVOLT. they HATE new housing.
the last major development in my urban area added 8000 jobs, and 500 units of housing, and the major opposition was to the housing, all the feedback was 'no new housing, but more new jobs'. the plan with the highest approval from the citizens was the one with 10,000 new jobs, and 0 new housing. and th eone with 5000 jobs and 1000 units of housing, was opposed like 90%. and the plan that was approved only had a 1 vote margin...
this is what people want. they democratically oppose new housing at every opportunity.
I look at the problem first and then the second order effects. Otherwise you end up constrained by what other people think. People are irrational and the question is.
As a citizen what do I think property ownership in america should look like and where should the incentives be.
If you can get people to engage with that idea. Then they can think for themselves and there's less room for people to put ideas in their head.
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All Ai IS DOING is laying people off in large numbers. its not even replacing it at all, they are hoping rehire for lower than previous salary, plus a little outsourcing. and they wont rehire everyone.
I thought the plan was to use AI to push all of us into a permanent underclass.
no. like, the term "working class" can be interpreted in two ways: (1) people who are inherently workers, (2) people who are forced to work to survive.
which one is being replaced?
Neither & both. Currently, the entire deck is being reshuffled. It's a Schrodinger moment for humans.
The current state of everything could easily be avoided if we didn't exist at all, or at least (in theory) never did to begin with.
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