There was a study, years ago, where they found that socio/psychopaths made up like 30% of all C-Suite employees. In the larger population, they make up less than 2%, and that's including all partial diagnoses. Add onto that the fact that most upper-level staff at any major firm these days are dipshit Business Idiots who know fuck all about jack shit, and you get the modern irrational economy.
He can do what he wants because he is, at least on paper, obscenely wealthy, and that provides the best protection from consequences in the world. Pair that with largely compliant judiciary and legislature branches, and suddenly his random rich person bullshit becomes codified as the King's Law. It's all fucked, dude.
Don't worry, AI will solve all those problems, and more!... by crashing all the markets and forcing governments to actually deal with their problems. While everyone else suffers the fallout of an economic collapse like nobody's ever seen before, same as the last 4 times.
Do not take such threats lightly. From your comments in this thread, your mother sounds mentally ill and untreated, but that doesn't excuse or justify such threats to your life. As others have said, make preparations to retaliate and insulate yourself from their bullshit, because if they're willing to make these kinds of threats idly, they're MORE than willing to make them in earnest. If their business goes down in flames, and their life ruined, so be it; they seem willing to do the same or worse to you on a moment's notice.
The main difference between Science and fucking around is that Science has you write things down. So long as you record everything you did, even if it ended up with wildly unexpected results, it's valid.
Mmmm, less the outright point, more a desired side effect. It helps keep the masses in line if they don't know what's real, but doesn't directly concentrate wealth on the scale they want.
That's the truly hilarious part - NOBODY is okay with this! EVERYONE knows it sucks! The ONLY reason it's still relevant is because Business Idiots are so goddamn pervasive and stupid. Any rational society would've taken GenAI out back and shot it years ago, that's how bad it is. If you want to get into the real nitty-gritty of JUST HOW TRASH things are, I recommend more of Zitron's work; it's a common topic for him to rip apart in a well-researched rage.
Do non-programmers just enter Claude and write "make program!!!" and then expect it to work?
Unironically, yes. The main proponents of this tech absolutely DO just do that, because they're Business Idiots who are fully happy and content with code that looks """good enough""", even if it does nothing useful. You can see this in all the credulous articles detailing tech CEOs who decree "All workers shall now use AI!!!" while vibecoding a bunch of slopware. They have no idea what the fuck they're actually doing, and they don't care. All the other Business Idiots have decided that this is the new hotness, so they either fall in line and "do AI", even at massive financial loss to their company and themselves, or they stop being part of the "In" crowd.
And to the Business Idiot, there is no fate worse than being irrelevant.
Fascist Propaganda plays super hard on the fears and nagging doubts that come with being an immigrant. The fears of deportation, imprisonment, or worse, not fitting in. The fear that everything is for nothing because someone is always poised to steal it out from under you. The fear that you are simply too weak to make it in the world, that there are things you don't understand and never will.
There was a study, years ago, where they found that socio/psychopaths made up like 30% of all C-Suite employees. In the larger population, they make up less than 2%, and that's including all partial diagnoses. Add onto that the fact that most upper-level staff at any major firm these days are dipshit Business Idiots who know fuck all about jack shit, and you get the modern irrational economy.