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Imagine how improved things would be if that $700 billion was spent improving the lives of regular people. Or, what if it was just used to pay the debt through taxes? Medicare for all? They clearly had the money and sqandered it.
Surely it'll trickle down this time?
Any second now. Maybe just one more tax cut for the rich just to be safe.
/s
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.
Oh, they do trickle down on ya! Not with what want ya though
Meanwhile they can't figure out why not enough ~~consumers~~ ~~wage slaves~~ children are born
Don't worry. They'll "solve" the problem with abortion bans.
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...
Don't even get them started on the right to vote.
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.
People have already "solved" that problem by simply giving up on sex. We are headed into Japan territory.
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.
Interviewer: Margaret Atwood, what are your thoughts on the trend in the US?
Atwood: I’m Canadian