The funny thing is communism isn’t about giving everyone stuff for free. That will come from AI.
primalanimist
NC mountain man. Animist. 420. Poly. Primal. Anti-consumerism. Pro-people.
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I doubt anyone could pay the man enough to blow 40 billion to tank a website. The moment you break something, the users will find a replacement and go there. This purchase was 100% ego. It changed no minds about Elon. His fanboys will still call this genius, and those who already knew he was a manchild are not suddenly thinking this was a mature, well-thought-out plan.
Over 50% of its advertisers left. That means most of the brands are not interested in the kind of people left in the toxic wasteland called X.
I did some work for a couple of catholic churches in my area (which was getting them set up on the special accounting software that their diocese requires them to use). These are small jesuit churches, that are supposedly giving everything they can to help the poor in the community. But I noticed their checking accounts had over $100k sitting in it, and the savings account was even more. This is a very poor area in the rural south. According to the 2020 census data, the average person’s income here is $26k a year.
I’m not a catholic, but after listening to them, it felt a LOT like I was working with the Soprano family lol. Every church in the diocese has to kick up money to the Bishop, just like Tony’s crew always had to pay up to him. LOL
I don’t know how much they help others in the area, financially, but I think they could probably ramp that up a little.
AI will be able to not only mine resources, but design products for us, assemble them and deliver them to us without any labor costs. Eventually, Free AIs will provide goods and services to people at no cost. Let the billionaires brag about their money. One day it won’t be worth anything. It’s only value now is as a leash to control (and exploit) labor. Labor is the actual value (and cost). Once labor is shifted to automation, we will have more equitable existence for others.
The goal of tools is and has always been to reduce human effort…labor. So the end goal of tools like AI is to replace labor. This will make billionaires unhappy, because they lose control of labor, but billions of other lives will be improved drastically.