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“I actually think it’s disingenuous for governors and elected officials who pontificate about workforce and hiring and economic development to then go and basically throw a grenade to the center of what is the new industrial revolution that literally powers almost every single business on earth,”
Except that this “revolution” is taking away more long-term jobs than it will create.
It'd be fine if there was UBI instead of "lol, starve"
Horse before the cart.
Yep, then you only have to worry about the environmental harm and cognitive decline of anyone who uses it, especially kids.
I used to think UBI was a reasonable solution, but I think that might be its problem, it's too reasonable, it would probably be the only thing that can prevent total class warfare from breaking out. But these billionaires (and now trillionaires?) are fucking idiots and I kind of hope they are too stupid to realize they need to placate the masses to avoid it or so narcissistic they think they can actually win if it does. We'd fucking slaughter them in a class war, no problem. They are not as smart nor as well-prepared as they think that they are. I think they're pushing all the wrong buttons and I think the way things are going they're going to get burned. They're flying too close to the sun, and like Icarus, they're having a real fun time. Until at some point, suddenly, they're not.