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Yup. It accounts for some 41% of the US' GDP, and a minimum of 47 million jobs. It's also growing at a fairly fast rate. That's too much money for anybody in c
by falcolas 3y ago
Yup. It accounts for some 41% of the US' GDP, and a minimum of 47 million jobs. It's also growing at a fairly fast rate.
That's too much money for anybody in charge to let die. They're much more likely to nuke AI.
- chefandy 3y ago> minimum of 47 million jobs What would you propose the US workforce did with some 47 million knowledge workers with suddenly useless skills if you removed the only widespread economic mechanism our society has to support them?
- falcolas 3y agoIn my Star Trek-esque ideal world, post-scarcity sharing of the resources required to live. Realistically, it's a part of the reason IP is "too big to fail". The fallout would effectively destroy the US.
- chefandy 3y agoYeah but we need the Star Trek society first. In principle, I absolutely agree that IP is bullshit. The problem that many people in the “smash IP” camp tend to ignore is that people needing to eat, have a place to live, not having a stage 1 cancer diagnosis be an instant death sentence, and things like that aren’t merely “regrettable collateral damage” on the road to freeing data. I’ve encountered many people over the years that hardline shit like that—they’re almost exclusively middle to upper middle class suburbanites that are edge lording that stuff to subconsciously quiet their deep-seated insecurities about how incredibly soft their comparatively unchallenged existence has made them.