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they're capable of it, they push things onto the retail worker as a power move. it is their way of having a fractional servant
Beat me to it. They want to rub the power they have over you in your face, and it’s a uniquely American thing.
“Look at how incompetent I’m allowed to be and you’re not!”
It's a rudimentary form of having your brain be turned to mush by AI because you have outsourced your decision-making to it. Why do stuff for yourself if someone is getting paid and being abused for it.
AI has made it worse but these people existed before AI.
Yeah that's what I meant. That many people are perfectly happy turning their brain off if they know they'll still get what they want. Having worked in retail myself I've seen the transition happen in front of me.
It's something way older than Ai but it only has made it more pronounced because unlike retail workers the lying machine doesn't take breaks or close for the day
The brain is a muscle that needs to be worked to not atrophy. Studies of the mapping based center of the brain have shown terrible signs of degrowth since people stopped just learning how to map out their way around and started just relying on phones to do everything.