Take Bezos, everything will be sold on Alibaba, or Gates, Windows will not be the default operating system. The oil companies will lose their fields.
The billionaires will become millionaires. Even if they can have record profits for 10 years, they are not dumb enough to choose that path forward if they lose everything in 20.
If Russia and China take over, much less money is to be made.
Why would the US billionaires go along if Trump would be controlled by Russia?
He has it backwards. Democracy is used to keep people placid in Capitalism because they feel in control and think that they live the best possible life.
He must mean free market economy and he must believe that progress comes from free market competition and he sees that threatened.
Is he that naive that he believes that Palantir and such will be used to bring back free markets?
In this case. Most of the times the politician is cheaper.
True. Now do we want people to take responsibility for their society or do we want them to get used to rely on somebody else?
It’s the only way to make a change. Businesses can buy politicians to avoid regulations.
I blame the humans who keep being consumers.
Nothing is ever produced by them that isn’t bought by someone who should have said no.
If companies are to blame then that’s the media companies who don’t inform the consumers about their responsibilities but instead sell ads for harmful products.
wear a yellow fluorescent jacket and set fire to a few cars
That’s like spraying Axe/Lynx deodorant all over the body and believing that it will work as advertised.
Like people expecting a working democracy and thinking that it is enough to vote.
I would like to know.
As a guess it could be the risk of AI if people don’t control it as society, a new nuclear strategy that accepts nuclear winter, the final stage of capitalism that takes away everything, the introduction of a surveillance state, or on a positive note, a distraction from the opportunities that people have. But none convinces me.
The former. Delivery guy cries because he realizes that he is perceived as a predator and that he will be perceived as such for the rest of his life.
Biden could be president while losing his smarts. Is Trump calling the shots?
This is so over the top. Has anybody considered that it could be an act to distract from something even more sinister?
No line breaks and capitalization? Can somebody ask AI to format it properly, please?
If men are the problem then why not do something about it without asking?
Sure, but in the context of rebelling against the patriarchy, women shouldn’t have to ask for their permission.
Have you seen the reaction of men to a bullet? The problem is also not what some men are doing.
So when the Republicans go full (Roman) fascism, they will do a 180 and start embracing lgbtq?