Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 9 hours later[^][v]#1,280,797
I refuse to believe people are genuinely this stupid. I instead am choosing to believe that the BBC and other news organisations are colluding to distract the public from discussing more salient issues, such as the fact that we're accelerating towards extreme levels of wealth inequality and now is the time for us to start insisting we all reap the rewards of automation and the AI revolution through UBI or some other equivalently potent means.
I simply will not believe that people are unironically insisting that private companies be the arbiters of what is and is not real. I will not believe that people are expecting everything on the internet is or ever was entirely or even remotely connected to the truth.
> In January a fake robocall claiming to be from President Biden, believed to be artificially generated, urged voters to skip a primary election in New Hampshire.
lmao. Good.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 3 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,280,945
@previous (B) > I refuse to believe people are genuinely this stupid.
They are.
> the fact that we're accelerating towards extreme levels of wealth inequality
We aren't. The rich are staying rich but the poor are getting wealthier in much bigger numbers than ever before. Average mean income all over the world has never been this good at any other point in history and it's still increasing.
> start insisting we all reap the rewards of automation
We already have been for many, many years.
> the AI revolution
Hardly. Just more sophisticated automation.
> through UBI
No. Regardless of automation, somebody at some point has worked to earn money, and been taxed. Why the hell should they have to pay for your lazy ass to sit in your mom's basement all day doing nothing but playing Minecraft and jerking off to MLP porn?
> or some other equivalently potent means.
You think UBI would be "potent"? How naive.
> I will not believe that people are expecting everything on the internet is or ever was entirely or even remotely connected to the truth.
Weirdly the majority (of idiots) do.
Anonymous B double-posted this 2 years ago, 1 minute later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,280,957
Also I said wealth inequality, not absolute wealth. But I think the claim I made can be made stronger than what I said, which is why I'd like to know how you define wealth.