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    If I were making tons of cash on AI speculation I would say that, too. Doesn’t make it accurate. Facts tell a different story.

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    One thing that’s become very clear is that all these billionaires are not smart people. Most of them were born on 3rd base or just got lucky.

    But their are not wise or worth listening to.

    In fact most of them are just shitty dumb pieces of shit psychopaths

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      The psychopath (at the bare minimum sociopath) part is important. You can’t get there without dehumanising your workers.

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      He does check all the boxes for the American electorate

      ✅ Self interested - “A success story!”

      ✅ Blames poor people for their poverty - “Why don’t you just work harder?”

      ✅ Avoids paying taxes - “When I’m a billionaire, I won’t want to pay either!”

      ✅ Does not understand that revenue from tax dollars should be used to support social programs and government services that are not specifically profit generating (food programs, emergency preparedness, environmental conservation, mail to remote areas, etc) - “The government should be run like a business”

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    Hey a rich out of touch asshole who has nothing in common with his fellow man has an opinion about something!

    I bet he knows what he’s talking about!

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    Well what did you expect, him to come out and say “yes, billionaires are detrimental to society”?

    The police investigated themselves and found nothing wrong.

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        I’d feed him to my dog

        But while he’s still alive

        (my dog is about as harmless as it gets, he’s old, missing many teeth and just wants to sleep and cuddle, but still…)

        I’d wager that Bezos tastes bitter, sour and otherwise unpleasant

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          Don’t do that to your poor dog. Let’s just treat Jeff like government cheese, stored in slices in a cave, because nobody wants to eat it.

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      It’s like they have some sort of solidarity. One based on their class. Seems like an idea that could greatly benefit them.

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        And yet they hate each other, because they covet each other’s wealth

        They’re so envious, when they have no need to be

        It’s an illness

        The only cure is the guillotine

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          Hey, in civilised countries we look at the super-rich with contempt and disgust

          We don’t aspire to be amongst their number like 'Muricans tend to

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        That mofo crushed physical retail almost completely, killed off a lot of malls and mom-and-pop stores and even Sears and JC Penney (coincidentally the pioneers of mail-order shopping). Nearly all websites are hosted on AWS servers. Owns UA/MGM and therefore has some ironic control of the James Bond films and franchise.

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    These billionaire ghouls just don’t know when to stfu

    I honestly cannot imagine being THAT rich, being able to do anything, and still being such a massive piece of shit

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        Exactly. Average asshole gets a billion, they get a financial advisor, let their money turn into generational wealth with investments, and donate to charity while living in a big mansion.

        The billionaires we have are more of mentally sick wannabe dragons, the horde will never be big enough to satisfy them.

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          Hell, that will happen at tens of millions. The magnitude of a billion is crazy.

          Even if they are more driven to keep going, others turn to more philanthropic pursuits. Well before a billion the number becomes more like a high score rather than giving any quality of life improvements, so what’s the point of getting more? Most will want to mean more to the world than just some high score. So accumulated wealth starts getting directed away for all but sociopaths that relish the high score in and of itself.

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      Exactly. They have so much money they could fuck off somewhere and live the rest of their lives and their families in sumptous luxury without even having made a dent in their fortune. Yet they continue to stick around and work hard at ruining everything for the rest of us, just so that they can add extra billions to their billions.

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      Or what? What are you(plural) gunna do about it? They keep getting away with it so what is this “when” you speak of and what’s going to happen?

      Even small children and animals learn very quickly that empty threats are far more cringey than scary and begin ignoring them almost immediately. These are grown people who’ve lived their whole lives without consequences and you think they give a shit?

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      just don’t know when to stfu

      I don’t think they can afford to, if they’re betting on this technology. They have to use their public influence to convince as many (important) people as possible for as long as possible to squeeze as much money as possible. After all, if these successful CEOs say it’s good, other CEOs may be swayed as well, and they’re the suckers that’ll end up deciding to spend the fruit of other people’s labour on infrastructure and tokens.

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        I don’t think they can afford to

        These people literally have fuck you money, they can afford a fuck-up like the AI bubble popping tens of times over if not endlessly with their countless legal loopholes. Their attitudes are based purely on having never faced repercussions for their societal parasitism and an insatiable desire for “more”.

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          Financially, sure. Emotionally, their sense of self-worth and their image is defined by their financial success. To have bet on a losing horse would sting. Hence, they need it to succeed.

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        Oh sure they have to influence, but I would expect them to do so a bit more on the down low. If they have a whiff of self awareness, they know this will just do more harm than good to their interests.

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    Oh, so the cartoonishly evil CEO said the evil rogues gallery of CEOs isn’t evil? It’s also so funny how he could say “no, young worker’s jobs aren’t in that much danger.” Then mark fuckerberg goes on stage saying how many people he’s replaced with ai. Wholly shit its impossible.

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    Unrelatable dickhead expresses an opinion, promptly ignored.

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      More like makes me fantasize about using his chrome dome to set an Amazon data center on fire like burning ants with a magnifying glass

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        Sadly the inescapable physical truth of convex vs concave lensing still relentlessly holds its tenacious grip on reality, despite the billions of dollars these folks have accumulated they have still, thus far, been unable to alter that particular aspect of reality.

        The only solution I can offer for Jeff Bezos is to begin forming his skull inwards somewhat so that any captured light can reach a proper focusing point. As as astronomer with some experience with such reflective optical surfaces, I’d be happy to begin the grinding and polishing process for you at any time, I’ll just need you to hold him still while I work. It’s a very precise process.

        I assume his head is mostly thick skull surrounding empty space anyway, so I think there should be little harm done.

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          just make the light source more concave than his head is convex!

          maybe. or just use a [REDACTED]

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            A high power laser? That feels like it might work. Perhaps we should start experimenting on Jeff Bezos’s head to see what works best.

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      promptly ignored.

      That’s what the oligarchs want…

      He has your money, and if you want it now vote JG Wentworth 2028.

      Because unless we take our money back, they’re just gonna fucking keep it.

      Edit:

      Because people might not know that commercial:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX0fIi3H-es

      Point being that’s the only thing we should say to oligarchs, if we say nothing they win

      So every time you see a billionaire, say “bitch, where’s my money”.

      Don’t let them talk about anything besides they have our money.

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      Just wanted to throw down the reminder that health insurance companies, for a brief moment, didn’t deny nearly as many claims.

      Sometimes violence is the answer.

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        IMO capital punishment is only violence if it’s done to the working class. If a judge and jury, after due process, sentences a billionaire to death that is justice.