Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future starts with a very similar setting.
Yup, first thing I thought of when I read the headline. I really enjoyed that book.
I’m convinced, at this point, the bourgeoisie is intentionally trying to trigger a non-nuclear mass casualty event (ie famine, disease, mass poverty, etc) to cull the population. They’re building bunkers while sewing the seeds for everyone else’s destruction.
No, the capitalists know they need people. It’s a big worry for them. Companies have to grow, but you can’t grow your market if the number of consumers and workers goes down.
At the same time they know that anything to save people is expensive in short term. And they always choose short term first.
They already have AI employees, soon they will have AI customers.
What is an AI employee gonna do with beer, pizza, or airline tickets? Sure, little freaks like Musk and Altman would love a world where its them and n billion chatbots and not a single other loving soul, but our economy is tooled for making things people need. You might be able to retool it into a paperclip machine that only makes compute and energy but it would bother a lot of very deep pockets in the process.
They will buy your RAM, your electricity, your oil, your crops will be used for biomass energy etc.
So not literally beer, pizza or airline tickets, but the wheat that goes into your beer and pizza can be used for biomass energy to power data centers that (each!) already use up more energy than entire cities. And the airplane will transport RAM and computer chips instead of people.
This will cause the price of the things you mentioned to go up, causing people to buy less and less of them. The economy will adapt to whoever pays most. A mere 30 years ago our economy wasn’t adapted to the internet at all, and just look at us now…
Maybe consider seeing a doctor about that.
But seriously: never attribute malice where stupidity is a sufficient explanation.
Oh look another user acting like an asshole suggesting they can diagnose mental illness from a comment. Speaking of stupidity.
While global warming itself may be a runaway event due to unchecked capitalistic endeavors there is no way you can attribute it to stupidity when the original scientists of the petro chemical revolution knew global warming was real back in the 1950s.
US companies have been playing the ignoring, denialism, and outright lying game for decades now trying to keep meaningful legislation from passing or being acted upon to address this problem.
What we are actually dealing with is the tragedy of the commons. Corporations lobbying against the science that they created is the very definition of malice and I would even go further and say this anti-immigration rhetoric in the first world is really about setting up a framework to ignore the billions of people that will eventually be displaced by climate change.
The cremation of care if you will. Absolving oneself of the consequences of your own actions that will harm others is by my measure malice.
Let’s pretend for a moment your comment history is not public and I’m unable to see the rest of your profile and how you interact with ther public and how the public ratios you for that.
You keep masking your unhappiness and anger with sputtering out learned facts and knowledge. Sounds quite undiagnosed nerodiverse to me, with a touch of anti social behavior and a pinch of missing life experience.
Please leave the house for an hour a day and touch grass. Try to reflect if the state of the world can really be your everyday concern. That is not healthy. If you want to help, volunteer in a soup kitchen, making people happy by helping them will greatly influence those moods of yours.
And you can always come back and do the internet warrior thing just a few hours more afterwards. But you will be calm and less aggressive and somebody might actually be inclined to listen to what you have to say.
Much love
Please take your faux caring and your unlicensed psychological advice somewhere else. You are acting like the assholes on Reddit who used Reddit care to harass people. Kindly get bent.
Why cull the population? Not to offend you but this is such a flat-earth level of a conspiracy that doesn’t even make sense if you spend more than 5 minutes on it.
