• thingAmaBob@lemmy.world
    37·
    6 days ago

    We are supposed to work for each other, with each other. The owning class are parasites, feeding from the labor of the masses, and they get most of what we produce. Without us they are literally nothing. If all billionaires disappeared tomorrow, infrastructure would not break down, because it is us who maintain it. We grow the crops, we heal the sick, etc…

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    32·
    6 days ago

    This guy is saying out loud what they’ve been saying behind our backs at their club.

    Make no mistake, this corporate giddiness over AI is all about ONE thing: Replacing as many pesky human workers with AI/Robotics/Automation as possible. Within five years, unemployment rates of under 5% will be an old memory. Double digit unemployment rates will be accepted as normal. Millions of people will be unemployed, and desperate.

    Then they will start criminalizing being poor. Too much debt, unemployed, need food or housing assistance? All of that will be illegal. If you require help from the government, you will have to work it off. You will stay in the detainment centers that were built for the illegal immigrants, and are now available, since most of them have been rounded up. Now they can hold illegal poor American citizens.

    Those in the camps will be leased out to American corporations under the 13th Amendment, allowing prisoners to be forced to perform slave labor, to cover the few jobs that humans are required to do, that haven’t been replaced by AI or robots. Those that resist, will be sent to the new facility being built in Guantanamo Bay, that will hold 30,000 of the most uncooperative. It will be America’s CECOT.

    And of course, using slave labor means even fewer good paying jobs for humans, rendering even more of them unemployed, and now illegal. The next stage will occur when there are more slave laborers than work for them, most jobs have been replaced by automation, and there are only limited human jobs left. What happens to all those surplus slave laborers, who don’t have a use, and are eating, reproducing, getting sick, attempting to escape, etc.?

    Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller has said that he wants to reduce America’s population to 100 million, which is about a 70% reduction. Who do you propose that he’s going to eliminate, and how do you suppose he intends to do that?

  • ashenone@lemmy.ml
    53·
    7 days ago

    I want to work with this guy. In close proximity. Alone. I’d love to have some one on one time with this amazing thought leader. Just me and him in a soundproof room.

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    6 days ago

    The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

  • AlexLost@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 days ago

    After a rash of breakins, amongst calls to do something about it, we reached out to known home invader Butch Stealsalot for his opinion, Butch? “Thanks Tina. Actually, I think we should be seeing more breakins, honestly. These teach us to be extra vigilant at all times, never leave our valuables exposed, and at the end of the day, drives capitalism forward. The apparatus that we pay for, insurance, can activate and replace the cataloged items missing, thus keeping the flow of goods in a healthy space. These robbers are actually providing a major service to the country. Thank you.” Well there you have it folks, from the mouth of the expert on the matter. A little inconvenience goes a long way!

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
          3·
          6 days ago

          We should invest in 3 or 4 units, and we can be chopping on one, cleaning up another, and staging the others. Just keep them rotating.

          The chopping will be steady enough to keep the crowd cheering.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    The part I don’t understand is where do they think there wealth comes from? It comes from the middle class buying things. That always has been and always will be the entire engine behind the economy. Without that, the entire system breaks down. With 50% unemployment, it’s gonna look more like MadMax or The Walking Dead. I don’t care how big these mother fuckers build their bunkers, they will only last so long. We out number them a million to 1.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 days ago

      It magically appears out of the aether that is the stock market. They can make it appear faster if they squeeze those beneath them. Lower wages, lower retirement funding, unbundling, rent extraction, squatting, more expensive benefits, etc.

      They don’t actually have to do the work of creating anything new. Just find ways to offer as little as possible and take as much as they can.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    5·
    6 days ago

    Guys, come on, this was back in 2023, little Timmy was soooo sowwwyyy about what he said!

    But later, Mr Gurner said in a post on LinkedIn that he had “made some remarks about unemployment and productivity in Australia that I deeply regret and were wrong”.

    See? He’s super duper full of empathy and totally not doing damage control for saying things actually believe in!

    Mr Gurner also previously made controversial comments criticising young home buyers for their spending habits, saying in 2017 that when he was saving for his first home, he “wasn’t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each”.

    Oh, uh… Teehee?