The world's tech billionaires are starting to moderate their rhetoric on AI automation, but that doesn't mean it's all in good faith.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/2771990

As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.

  • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Of course you’re wrong. That’s just Libertarian/Ancap nonsense…

      • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
        111·
        3 days ago

        Not paying taxes because ‘government is wrong’

        • StopTech@lemmy.todayOP
          111·
          3 days ago

          I said bad governments don’t deserve taxes. Do you think every government is justified to take as much taxes as it wants however it wants? No? Then shut up! :)

          • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            I said bad governments don’t deserve taxes. Do you think every government is justified to take as much taxes as it wants however it wants?

            These are two separate things. Do bad governments deserve taxes? How else will roads, transit, schools, parks, etc be paid for? So yes, I believe even bad governments not only deserve taxes, but require taxes to function. Are governments justified in taking as much tax as they want whenever they want? Of course not. Especially since those taxes often don’t fund roads, schools, parks, etc but rather imperialist wars and genocide.

            Unless you’re working towards the goal reforming or establishing a new government, your actions are purely performative. It sounds like you simply don’t like paying taxes (who does really?). This is pure Libertarianism.

            Do you go to local meetings to vote on tax codes? Do you vote in progressive candidates who have a more favorable tax code? Are you fighting billionaires and corporations who pay virtually ZERO taxes? Are you protesting wars and genocide in the streets? Are you fighting ICE and their bloated, unlimited budget for killing and kidnapping? Are you going to town council/board meetings and protesting AI and Data Centers?

            No? Then shut up!

            I’m a Socialist and I’m actively working towards all those goals, and more. You are individualistic. You think individual actions will achieve whatever it is you think your goal is. It will not. We need collective action of the working class, united in a fight against the Capitalist class, who (and you’re right, here!) do not represent us.