Imagine this scenario:

  • All companies start producing mostly using only AI and firing people, because people have no use anymore
  • Joe spend most of his income on digital video games products
  • Joe get fired because he got replaced by AI now, since AIs are taking over most jobs
  • Joe has no income anymore
  • Joe doesn’t have any more money to spend on video games
  • Companies have no more profit, because people don’t have income, so people can’t spend on their AI produced products

In this scenario both lose, the company adopting AI and the worker. Am I missing something? Is there any possibility besides Universal Basic Income to keep the system running and not collapsing?

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    6 days ago

    It has nothing to do with others comfort. Voting third party in a first past the post two party system helps the existing two parties maintain control. It is an unfortunate reality.

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      5 days ago

      No, that’s twisting of reality. My vote for X didn’t help A or B as opposed to voting for A or B directly, as you want me to do.

      I don’t want either party to win, because they’re both evil. You insisting on voting for the “lesser evil” because their evil doesn’t effect you enough is throwing me under the bus, so getting the “greater evil” is on you.

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          No I’m basing it on my material condition, and Democrats are doing almost the same amount of harm to me and many others.

          You’re basing it on your material condition, where you benefit more under them, and to hell with those they run over, THe hELL With ThosE tHE SYSTEM DesTroyS, i wIlL SUPPort iT as loNg AS IT WORKs For ME!

          I have no obligation to lie down on the train tracks for you because you’re afraid of degrading your comfortable lifestyle, when you openly tell me I’m just a victim of a broken system you insist on participating in and not fixing.

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            5 days ago

            I am sure plenty of Democratic people don’t even know you. Pretending they are directly harming you is an emotional response.

            You aren’t speaking from knowledge and instead speaking to your feelings. There is nothing wrong with that.

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              What a stupid thing to say. Their policies directly harm me, the policies you support and dismiss as “lesser evil” directly harm me and my people. It’s material harm, and emotional too, but par for the course to dismiss that as well.

              As long as you’re not harmed, that’s the priority. I must vote blue, and if I don’t I’m to blame.

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                  5 days ago

                  Their unconditional support for Israel and Biden’s genocide in Gaza for a start, they literally lost the election over it.

                  But I know, brown people aren’t as important as your first world problems, so you’re gonna deflect and deny, maybe callousely ask me if I’m happier with Trump?

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                    5 days ago

                    Please explain how this harms you directly as in a tort. I am interested as if you can prove actual harm you may have standing to sue.

                    I don’t want to discount your feelings because they are important and quite frankly I agree with them. I also think it is important to separate feelings from facts. Unless you can demonstrate how Democrats have personally harmed you it is just a feeling. Nothing wrong with that though.