Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.

Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• vodka@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Surely it’ll trickle down this time?

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  • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Any second now. Maybe just one more tax cut just to be safe.

    /s

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There enlies a great response to people who insist we cannot resist progress (AI) and it’s totally inevitable. If they believe in that progress so much, they can choose from any previous innovation that didn’t bring the thing they say AI will bring.

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  • itistime@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, they do trickle down on ya! Not with what want ya though

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meanwhile they can’t figure out why not enough consumers wage slaves children are vormen

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  • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t worry. They’ll “solve” the problem with abortion bans.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And rolling back things like marital rape laws. And perhaps we were a little hasty allowing women to have their own checking accounts (IN 1974). Etc…

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      • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Don’t even get them started on the right to vote.

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    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To then discover people are so glued to their phone filled to the brim with anger inducing engagement, they don’t have any energy left over to meet people or even do the deed.

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    • itistime@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Interviewer: Margaret Atwood, what are your thoughts on the trend in the US?

      Atwood: I’m Canadian

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    • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People have already “solved” that problem by simply giving up on sex. We are headed into Japan territory.

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      • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exactly. Without immigration, our population would collapse. Our birthrate is 1.64 per woman. Japan’s is 1.2. The replacement rate is 2. It’s just too damn expensive to have kids, put a roof over our heads, and retire. Meanwhile the fed just funnels more money to the rich. No wonder the workers can’t maintain the population: we’re starving and the government is giving all the food to the rich.

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