It's like watching Trump become popular again. It's an aberration that becomes more legitimate every day -- independently of the actions taken by any controllin

It's like watching Trump become popular again. It's an aberration that becomes more legitimate every day -- independently of the actions taken by any controlling parties. > Observe: when the value of people is greater than the value of tools, a society becomes more free and equal. When wages depend on skill and knowledge, when an army depends on the prowess of the individual soldiers, these are the kinds of things that usually go along with mass democracy and empowerment, because economic production and war both require the consent of the individual to work. This might have already passed -- how many people were sacrificed to COVID because of the "economy". A tool supposedly completely in the power of the people was exposed. Corporations can raise prices and don't have to worry about the whim of the people. Small groups of entrenched executives are now the powerful -- the rest of us skilled workers, arbiters of democracy, can either only dream of such power or disdain it. I think ChatGPT rose from this hubris. You have to be pretty privileged to think that what the People really need is a GPU making sentences up to make you happy.