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AllonzeeLV

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AllonzeeLV ,

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/30/capitalism-isnt-working-us-politicians-child-labor

AllonzeeLV ,

Because we the sucker peasants of the west have largely been propagandized by the owner class from birth into embodying this meme:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d4689d74-1236-46e6-b43b-13eaa0cee812.jpeg

AllonzeeLV OP , (edited )

Why do vaccines need to be made by private companies for private profit at all? Why not publically funded research at universities and agencies that charge reasonably for use, where that capital is either turned into more public research or other commons? Other than the fact that we starved public research almost to death to cut private industry for private profit's taxes.

Also private industry does NOT belong in basic utilities everyone needs AT ALL.

There should not be a single power plant or utility that's for private investor profit. It's too important to have any allegiance other than serving the citizenry full stop. There should be no private investor in a position to advocate sticking it to captive customers (or our sole shared communal habitat), who need any common utility like elec-fucking-tricity, to increase their quarterly private profit expectations. But here we are.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

Thats why I choose to be a pessimist. It eliminates disappointment.

Expect the worst from humans and you'll usually end up being factually correct, you'll never be disappointed, and occasionally, if the moon and the stars align, you just might be pleasantly surprised about something at some point in your life, just don't count on it.

Optimism looks fucking exhausting when dealing with our gem of a species. Being let down most of the time and still putting on a smile for the next disappointment you won't expect 5 minutes later. Looks like masochism minus the sexual pleasure. Good luck with that optimists!

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

Capitalism is feudalism with a marketing team.

Land/capital shouldn't be more important than people. Economies are supposed to be lowly tool of a society to maximize the equitable and efficient distribution of goods and services within a society for the benefit of the citizens of said society, not a few thousand sociopath families at most of society's expense as it is.

Our society (the US in my case, but increasingly the entire west) literally lives in perpetual servitude to one of its broken tools. A catastrophe should have leaders coming out saying they'll take every measure to protect their people and society, not their fucking economy and it's quarterly private profit expectations.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

Probably, in the same way Steamboat Mickey is.

Just part of the whole valuing property, in this case intellectual, over actual labor and people that our species loves so fucking much.

Imagine if IP from drugs to technology to fiction had a 5-10 year max window before other people could work with and expand on it. It would be a better world for most.

Oh you only get to make exclusive income on that thing you came up with for SEVERAL YEARS OF YOUR LIFE before you need to contribute in other ways to keep making money, boo fucking hoo. Where's the sympathy for people working 2 jobs, burning their life up to meet basic needs, who don't get several years of passive income on an idea that popped into their head 4 years ago.

AllonzeeLV ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c432e345-1801-4ad3-ac48-076952a81e11.jpeg

AllonzeeLV ,

That fucker has been pointing and laughing at me for 10 years in my head.

He's not wrong, but still.

AllonzeeLV ,

It depends kid.

What's your parent's net worth?

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

Yep, intellect and capacity for introspection are curses in this bad joke of a civilization, especially in poor socioeconomic circumstances.

No one will even be honest with them in childhood and just tell them "because some sociopath families who were born before you called generational dibs, and convinced some of the other poories that are dumber than you to defend their dibs at gunpoint."

Nope, they have to parse through the bullshit of bootstraps and can do attitudes that tend to be thrust upon children for years after the Santa Clause jig is up.

AllonzeeLV ,

Shit, I thought he was saying paper is majestic.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5cf5324b-e7d9-47d8-8b5f-52d0c6959600.gif

We're almost finished. This is just the transitional period where AI is roughly as inept as an average human. They have nowhere to go but up, and most humans are less competent than they believe they are.

waves at Dunning–Kruger effect

The first transistor was made in 1947, now AI can carry a conversation with a larger vocabulary than most humans. We spent 180,000 years wandering around in the dirt before it occurred to us we could grow stuff in one place.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

We're less than 5 years out from networked, general purpose humanoid robots, that we're using current AI technology to train to interact with the physics of the real world in virtual sandboxes, being everywhere.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/90936cc1-2016-44b6-b6af-25997adfd5be.jpeg

Within 10 years there will be humanoid robots no human Olympian can compete with by any metric. We are static on timescales we can perceive, they are iterative. It won't be close.

You'd think our response to Covid would have shattered the mass delusion of human hyper-comptetence.

AllonzeeLV ,

I promise you the Pentagon has already spent billions working to weaponize both AI and AI derived robotics.

Their philosophy is that if a new technology even has potential military applications, they demand getting it first, best, and in larger quantities than any other nation on Earth would even consider. Our military industrial complex is the largest surpassing the Joneses continuous effort humanity exerts.

That's how we get to spending more on our military than the next 9 nations combined. That's why we have 11 nuclear aircraft carriers, France has 1, and that's all there is on Earth.

I'm not saying it's right, but it's the reality. Whatever we consumers have access to is behind what our military is testing and throwing basically infinite money at.

AllonzeeLV OP ,

Since there's no rational hope of addressing the other 3k or so billionaire parasites on Earth without building a really big Titanic wreckage tour sub and making little paths of stock certificates leading to it like reese's pieces in ET, I'll take whatever incidental vicarious revenge against humanity's oppressors I can get.

AllonzeeLV OP , (edited )

We're no less corrupt in the US, merely more expensive.

Our cheats just hire lobbyists to make their corrupt practices legal, shout out to Citizens United, and/or hire enough lawyers to make the consequences meaningless, like fining a company that makes billions a year thousands for profitable criminal activity.

Our "solution" to corruption is simply to make it legal for the right price. Donald Trump should have lost his empire and gone to jail for his business practices long before he was a game show host, let alone POTUS, but he learned and inherited enough from daddy to understand how to wield American style corruption, and he's still free.

AllonzeeLV OP , (edited )

I'm against the death penalty in general, but I also acknowledge that in terms of tangible damage to humanity, any billionaire walking the Earth makes any serial killer who has ever walked the Earth seem positively quaint by scale.

I also recognize that we are living under class occupation. The owner class handily won the class war by convincing most of the developed world not to fight it half a century ago.

The peasants don't have the luxury of taking prisoners. We are the losers of a war, in spite of the fact that many have come to worship their occupying oppressors.

Keeping the most destructive humans locked away and well fed until they die of natural causes is a peacetime luxury for those in charge, and unless you're holding a reprehensible amount of capital, that isn't us. You might believe we are in peacetime, but if we refuse to stop them, and it looks that way, they will force our shared, communal habitat to stop us all through their insatiable, sociopathic avarice.

We love to think we're not, but we're still subjects wholly dependant on this world, even the owners activily attacking us and it simultaneously.

AllonzeeLV OP ,

I mean, why not?

Because with the apparent exception of Vietnam, billionaires run the show in the society they live in. They use their capital, which is just an expression of power, to change laws, buy courts, shift responsibility to their corporate entities that receive a cute lil meaningless fine that costs less than the profit of the crime instead of prison time, and here in the US they even literally OWN and PROFIT off many of our prisons. That's the primary reason billionaires shouldn't exist, because it's close to impossible to put a check on such insane levels of power, which again, at those quantities, is what capital becomes, raw power. You can't have a functioning representative democracy where people can grow so wealthy that their power over society extends beyond their single vote.

Most of the peasants in the world are subject to their respective judicial systems and prison systems largely configured to protect PROPERTY rights over human rights by design of those they work for, and guess who that is?

There are beautiful exceptions, the Nordic nations come to mind, but sadly my country, the US, has been spreading its greed disease for decades. We toppled south American rigimes daring to make something better to keep their markets open for our capitalists to rape using our military industrial complex, and we've been converting Europe with our greed disease a little at a time(YOU can live larger than you've ever dreamed, foreign legislator, just betray your countrymen for our profit!), the UK has fallen to it, the French are fighting it but losing, etc.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

The owners will do what they've been doing with our consent, or we'd have stopped them by now. They're going to keep profiting until the bill comes due, and then they'll cheat like always, this time by running away instead of with floors of tax attorneys and lobbyists capturing their own regulatory bodies, ensuring you'll bear the brunt of the consequences of their fine work.

https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-inside-luxury-bunkers-ultra-rich-prepare-for-doomsday-2022-9

The owner class doesn't care about their nation state of origin, or even humanity's future, only themselves and their ego scores. That's literally the sociopathic motivation our civilization rewards through the global economy that punishes pro-social vocations, and is the very reason they won.

When we're dying by the millions through starvation and constant deadly weather events, when far too late we stop making them more capital and start picking up pitchforks, they'll be underground, protected by class traitor private security, sipping exotic whiskies and irrationally placing the blame on the peasants for the fact that their favorite private resort for the rich got flattened by a CAT 6.

It will take millions of years for the Earth to recover from what we're doing in a matter of decades to make a few thousand sociopath families feel like modern Pharoahs.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

Entire industries cannibalizing one another to eliminate competition and their industry's ability and desire to make the products/services they existed for in the first place. TimeWarnerHBODiscoveryblahblah shelving projects for tax cheats, making lazy appeals to nostalgia for what the companies they destroyed once made, and cheap reality garbage instead of actual media comes to mind, but it's terminal capitalism, it's happening in every sector.

Then they lay off their workers cutting their workforce to the bone by activist shareholder demand, eliminating potential consumers of the economy.

Now they want to use AI to cut the bone.

The economy no longer has any interest in the human beings it was created as a lowly tool to serve. We're being cut out entirely, except the small class of private owners, of course.

AI could and should be used to free mankind from tedious labor, that's why such innovation should have come from well funded PUBLIC research our economy should have been oriented to feed for PUBLIC benefit.

Instead, like every other technology, it will be used as yet another cudgel against society. This civilization is dogshit.

AllonzeeLV ,

I Put on my list, sounds like it has some animal farm vibes.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

I do myself, on albeit 5 year old hardware that struggles on my home server, but with decent GPUs with decent amounts of Vram running in the thousands, it isn't accessible to most even with the inclination.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2024/01/25/emergency-expense-savings-study/72356517007/

AI is open source, but running it is an expensive proposition, Raspberry Pis need not apply.

The owners can buy all they like without a thought though to use against us for their gain.

AllonzeeLV ,

No, children deserve to be able to fact check their parent's biased narrative, too.

It's a conservative mindset to demand you get to monopolize the information your child receives until they're 18.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

There's no cure all solution. I consider homeschooled children taught to live their lives by regressive religious texts to be just as broken as the cult of Tate.

If any intervention will still yield roughly equivalent mixed results, I always err on the side of more access to information. A child can gravitate to Andrew Tate's toxicity, or they can look up facts about the confederacy their parents told them fought for "states rights and freedumb!"

In a perfect world, loving parents should be available to provide opinions and context, but I'd rather that child have the opportunity to seek out a rational, benevolent path if the parents attempt to indoctrinate them to their worldview with no other options.

The parents most interested in dominating all information their child receives tend to be the same ones that get mad at the schools for teaching children that genitals exist, the universe is billions of years old, and their country wasn't always perfect, stuff they need to know for life whether their parents like it or not.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

you seem to be assuming that children have the same logical reasoning faculties that adults do. this is not the case.

Critical thinking and reasoning must be taught, and in the US largely doesn't until the college level unfortunately. Many adults, many parents have no logical reasoning faculties and never will. Some are very proud of this, declaring the whims and opinions that pop into their heads "common sense." I refer you to my fellow Americans who see salvation in a slumlord game show host nepo baby. There's a reason humanity spent 180+ thousand years wandering in the dirt before stumbling upon a less brutal way to live 10-20 thousand years ago.

Again, some like myself may seek out such information if they are starved of it at home, if they have access. If anything, getting multiple conflicting opinions tends to make a new mind seek out ways to parse the true from the false, and that chance is better than no chance at all.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

That's why government should restrict individuals making enough money to warp society or the commons beyond their single vote through things like progressive taxation that incentivizes instead reinvesting the money that would be taken as profit taxed at 95% beyond excessive thresholds into the business/employees/community. We had reasonable tax rates once, though even then enforcement was lacking, then we let the foxes buy the hen house rule makers in the 70s and 80s without dragging them out in the street as we should have for attempting it, and now this country needs to collapse before there can be any hope for the people.

Hoarding capital is antisocial, and should be illegal. Illegal large scale capital hoarding should be punishable by incarceration, as greed is more effectively destructive than even hatred.

Letting individuals collect hundreds of millions/billions of dollars in capital when others struggle to survive makes as much sense as allowing individuals to tinker with atomic bomb tech in their garage. Capital is power over others. If making enough to own 3 houses, 6 cars, and a boat aren't enough incentive for someone, if they need enough for their own space program, they need therapy, not enablers.

AllonzeeLV ,

"A man has died! Have you no decency?!"

Well on the one hand maybe I do, and on the other hand maybe I don't. Clearly the truth is somewhere in the middle.

AllonzeeLV ,

Mourning and/or condemning the dead is done so for the living, not the dead.

AllonzeeLV ,

Hypothetical: Someone you know unironically, unjokingly says they believe Adolf Hitler was an amazing leader, does it effect your opinion of the person you know?

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

You're saying if someone said that, you wouldn't think more or less of them or their positions?

You'd be neutral to such a declaration in dealing with such a person? Because I would do my weather best never to go near or interact with such a person again if I could help it. I would tend to disregard the opinions of a vocal Hitler fan.

I wouldn't be like "who cares, Hitler is dead, if you enjoyed accounts of his work, you do you. It will have no bearing on my impression of your policy positions."

AllonzeeLV ,

👍

AllonzeeLV ,

"But its got electrolytes earthy flavor!"

AllonzeeLV ,

Steve Jobs was a piece of shit human being who contributed nothing to technology.

That said, he was a hell of a skilled bullshitter/marketer. Most people fucking looooove to be bullshitted, and Americans more than most.

It's why we elect virtually no wonks/technocrats, even though thats who we should elect almost exclusively. We'd rather some snake oil motherfucker sell us on magical lies while telling us we're pretty.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

I think marketers should get to take credit for ad campaigns they create, and engineers should get to take credit for technology they create.

Capitalists just want to take the credit for what others do. Societal leeches. I don't buy into their false narrative that providing the means of production they hoard out of greed means they deserve most to all of the credit for what they permit talented people to engineer and produce by the swear of their brow and the migraines of their solutions.

We should be rewarding the Teslas of the world for what they invent, and punishing the Edisons that would claim other's inventions as their own. But we suck, so we won't.

AllonzeeLV ,

He's one of those people who died at the right time to preserve their own legacies, before public reckonings for non illegal bad behavior became common.

AllonzeeLV ,

If you want to congratulate his corpse for what he didn't engineer or design, go ahead.

AllonzeeLV ,

I dug into the RIAA Source PDF the article references for what "other" means:

"Includes CD Singles, Cassettes, Vinyl Singles, DVD Audio, SACD"

AllonzeeLV ,

Eh, I have a lot of questions after articles, few are worth going down the rabbit hole for unless others show interest, no worries!

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

As an American, we are overdue for such karma.

That said, I would fear for the world. Our glass national ego, especially among our entrenched power, wouldn't be able to handle it, and we would likely go on a militarized rampage if our economy collapsed.

We aren't mature enough to do otherwise.

AllonzeeLV ,

Humanity loves torturing humanity.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

When?

After half the jobs are being done by the owner's slave humanoid robots that double as the owner's personal defense force in the event of revolution, further entrenching their power beyond owning the means of production, means of propaganda, means of state violence, and their captured state and federal governments they already have?

When?

(note, automation isn't the enemy, robot laborers aren't the enemy. such technology should be used to free humanity from unfulfilling labor. The enemies are those who would use such technology to, as ever, further enrich and empower themselves and their capital market buddies exclusively, while hurting everyone economically below them because they can.)

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    AllonzeeLV ,

    All Trump did was take away the dog whistles and pass out bullhorns.

    Trump is but another symptom/consequence of the Reagan Republican era.

    AllonzeeLV ,

    We all pv zk pv grieve in our own ch rr ch way...

    AllonzeeLV , (edited )

    I believe the first paragraph except colonizing space, at least not without hundreds of years of new technology at the human pace of invention.

    We humans cannot even minimally adequately care for one another or this habitat, the one we evolved from, the most accommodating, self-correcting(to a point), resilient habitat that humanity will EVER know by far, and we've been fucking this easy situation up like breathing. Earth isn't even the "enter your name" part of the interstellar civilization test, that would be colonizing our local moon. No, failing the Earth test is basically taking the test to the bathroom assuming it to be toilet paper.

    Everything else in non-multigenerational reach will be completely and totally unforgiving. Even in the best circumstances, one person going stir crazy if we're talking about sending real people can literally get everyone else killed, one major failure everybody dead, one major accident everybody dead.

    Sorry, I know most of us are deluded into believing salvation comes from reckless attempts at ready fire aim growth, but if we don't get this world fully squared away from the consequences of our reckless actions, find homeostasis and successfully meet the needs of the humans here on easy mode Earth, the idea that we can make colonies of hundreds or thousands on our Moon/Titan/Mars is a bad joke.

    We can send 5-20 HIGHLY TRAINED perfect specimens to Mars or Titan to plant a flag and grow potatoes for a few years, and I'm all for that as a human rallying achievement, we really need one of those, but that isn't the same thing as developing a true, sustainable presence on another world. We'll have either long since decimated this habitat or pulled out a miracle of finding equilibrium with it long before we're ready for that.

    AllonzeeLV ,

    As someone who isn't a gun nut but was in the military, the size of the nutter's collections for their own purported defense is cartoonish. You can only ever use one gun at a time well, you only have 2 hands, and training yourself to reflexively lean into all the specific nuances of a single weapon within its class will make you far more dangerous than having a rotation of pistols, rifles, etc.

    Using, training on, cleaning, a 92FS in my case until it feels like an extension of myself will yield better results than those yucks that use their 1911 twice a year, their Glock 17 twice a year, their 92FS twice a year, their FN five-seven twice a year, etc. It's fashion over function for those types.

    AllonzeeLV ,

    We all develop our little pet road hatreds.

    My cousin's are minivans. Mine are still BMWs, so I guess I'm a basic bitch.

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