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If we could like not supercharge communist dictatorships with AI high-tech, that would be great.
by Dudester230602 3y ago
If we could like not supercharge communist dictatorships with AI high-tech, that would be great.
- uoaei 3y agoYeah let's supercharge capitalist imperialist oligopolies instead!
- passwordoops 3y agoAt least they can be broken up, like with the robber barons of the previous century
- quickthrower2 3y ago( … cue evil sounding and very long laughter inside nondescript lobbying office )
- mschuster91 3y agoTheoretically yes, practically the US government has been bought off by the tech elites.
- passwordoops 3y agoI highly recommend the work of Matt Stoller in this regard (1), in particular his book Goliath (2) that goes over the history of monopoly fights over the past century and laid out how we got to where we have today (hint: eerily similar to the 1920s but not as bad) 1. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/ https://www.thebignewsletter.com/ 2. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/goliath-how-monopolies-secretly-took-over-the-world_matt-stoller/19879952/#edition=21158405&idiq=41709743 https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/goliath-how-monopolies-secretl...
- Ygg2 3y agoGoogle/Apple/<Massive corp> will be broken any day now.
- passwordoops 3y agoThe tide is turning from the moronic stance of maximum efficiency for the consumer over all other considerations. I think what will really precipitate it is if the US and China enter a hot conflict and some company like NVIDIA continues to do business in China. It happened before with Alcoa not only slowing the buildup of US artillery but also providing the Nazis with the necessary materials before the government stepped in (1). The heads of the US military have already identified monopoly as a national defence issue 1. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/28/wall-street-world-war-ii-democracy-monopoly/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/28/wall-street-world-war-i...
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y ago[citation needed]
- Ygg2 3y agoHas Google broken by anti-trust laws? There is your citation. They've been pulling suspicious moves for last decade.
- richardw 3y agoOn this website you can say that and not be unceremoniously jailed. It’s false equivalence.
- yesbut 3y agoThe moment any grassroots efforts amass enough momentum to challenge the US plutocracy they will be shut down violently. Until then, they don't care if people complain about the system publicly. Freedom to complain still doesn't change material outcomes in the US.
- LudwigNagasena 3y agoIt should be pretty clear for anyone that any opposition is tolerated as long as it is not seen as a threat. Moreover, the idea that you should be able to say lots of stuff without getting locked up is rapidly going out of fashion. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-internet-speech-arrest.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-intern...
- pjmlp 3y agoNah, for US anything goes as long as there is some petroleum to be gained from. Naturally it tends be disguised as freeing the country. Like CIA helping drug lords in South America, during the 1980's.
- yesbut 3y agoYou mean "spreading democracy".
- prmoustache 3y ago[flagged]