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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.

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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.

“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.

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.

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?