Everyone in an public or private position of influence over the economy should be barred from running more than a 7-11 after the covid fiasco.
Anyone claiming there isn’t any evidence the production of necessities is a zero sum game from the perspective of the average person is a deluded fool.
Inflation deflates the public to stabilize and grow buying power of imaginary asset owners. It’s a viral game of make up a reason why a minority are free of real work keeping them breathing.
“Hurting” the elite has always been up to the public.
Teacher strikes and unionization efforts have been winning; the financiers know nothing about self sufficiency. They know they rely literally on someone else to grow the food, kill the steaks.
The white collar public have a credibility problem; they want to be served and not serve themselves.
There is zero reason for most tech workers to login tomorrow; the vast majority will never move the needle. Yet they’ve learned helplessness and don’t know what to do.
We carry on about ills of LLMs hallucinating while westerners hallucinate the they can just do data entry work and someone else will wear out their bodies procuring food.
Our AI is more like us than we want to admit, which is why they’re so terrible.
If you like some real numbers; <600 elected Federal officials, only 1 million LEO from federal to local, and very few billionaires and mega millionaires.
All propped up by labor of tens of millions.
Let Jamie Dimon go door to door for those mortgages. 10k NYC cops threatened to strike over vaccine mandates; only 34 did. Let them see police work for pay not fealty.
Among the urban working class in cities like Chicago, union interest has been rising rapidly across a variety of sectors. Retail, education, warehouse labor, museums are all seeing increases in union activity. The mayor-elect is a former union organizer.
Chicago is certainly one of the more pro-labor cities in the US, but they’re not the only ones seeing growing interest in organized labor. The Democratic Socialists of America membership grew from 6,000 to 90,000 in less than 10 years.
The question was not about unionization, but the accomplishments of said unions, which remain to be seen. Unions that lack the strength to strike are a net negative.
The mayor elect didn't even support Bernie Sanders lol.
DSA membership has been nosediving for the past 2 years because DSA is effectively an appendage of the Democratic Party.
It remains to be seen whether the soon to generationally churn will succeed in foisting their ways on the yet to exist.
Having a hard time believing a deluge of generative AI content will keep Mickey Mouse worth anything; even if the AI content cannot be copyrighted why would users pay for Mickey Mouse?
This will remain to be seen for a decent amount of time. Generative AI is pretty far from making games as good as the new Zelda without a lot of human work involved (hopefully in the short term we see an indie renaissance).
Given the results I’m seeing generating individual meshes, textures for characters, less than 10 years and everyone will be generating their own stash of Pokémon to randomly distribute around a digital world.
Even with the ornate stable diffusion, mid journey, and all the rest I use, it’s far easier to setup than a Linux project was 10-15 years ago.
A few more iterations on nerfs and the proper porcelain is all it seems like we’re waiting on to me.
Anyone claiming there isn’t any evidence the production of necessities is a zero sum game from the perspective of the average person is a deluded fool.
Inflation deflates the public to stabilize and grow buying power of imaginary asset owners. It’s a viral game of make up a reason why a minority are free of real work keeping them breathing.