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These bonzos want the world economy to collapse so there will be massive layoffs, allowing them to offer AI bots to companies and governments to replace human workers.

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 114 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It will eliminate the weak meaning the companies in actual competitive markets, so monopolists like Amazon can buy them up and monopolize even more markets.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep. Trillion dollar companies are so huge that a deep recession only mildly impacts revenue.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, that's why they do the whole greedflation thing, to make central banks raise rates, causing a slew of bankruptcies among the competition, making them ripe for a buyout.

The fact that it also destroys labour negotiating positions is a cherry on top.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

To rich people, you are the weak. Remember that. This is genocide

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Translation: I have enough money to weather this self-inflicted disaster. Do you?

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He wants to buy everything remotely competition at scrap-bottom prices

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I genuinely believe that this is why they crash the economy every now and then. We've had at least 4 economic catastrophes in the last 30 years...and they were all predictable and preventable.

But somehow, none of these very wealthy and successful people, were able to see the inevitable consequences of their own actions? Yeah. No. Not buying it.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Their wealth grows nearly exponentially each time. What a crazy coincidence huh?

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[–] cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Pissed off at Bezos betraying us all again? Consider not giving him your money and boycott Amazon.

Someone reading this message could cost them hundreds or thousands over the coming year by simply shopping elsewhere. That's not nothing. There's no doubt that Amazon is convenient, but it is possible to get along without them.

For Americans: in this time of rising fascism, it's important to chip away at the pillars that are holding up the regime in the White House. This is one way to use your agency to have a measurable impact.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

CONSUMERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! ALL YOU HAVE TO LOSE IS CHEAP SHIT YOU DON'T REALLY NEED ANYWAY!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, that and some genuinely good media that they've locked down the rights to...

Unless... 🏴‍☠️

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, piracy is illegal and could send you to pris-whboops trips on a nail folded up paper falls out of my pocket. Woah, little clumsy there. Hand me that paper will you? its a website i need to send a DMCA request to.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 5 points 2 weeks ago

By virtue of my location, the Jolly Roger is the only way I can access most popular media.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

I just want to add to this that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BOYCOTT SOMETHING COMPLETELY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

It's absolutely OK if you cannot 100% cut Amazon out of your life. It's OK if you have to buy from them sometimes because it's the only place you can find that particular thing you need.

You just need to stop making them your default. Check somewhere else first. Make that little bit of extra effort to see if maybe a local store has what you're looking for.

If you reduce your spending on Amazon by 80%, that's still a huge reduction. If enough people do that, they'll be in serious trouble. And it's a lot more manageable than an all or nothing boycott.

And if we could convince a hundred million people to reduce their spending Amazon by just 10%, that would have far more impact than a hundred thousand people cutting them out entirely. It's better to set a lower standard that more people can engage with, especially because the more people develop that habit of not always going to Amazon first, the more it's place in their lives will continue to shrink.

I call this "soft boycotting". Reduce rather than remove. It's far more sustainable as an option in your every day life, and it encourages people to actually engage with boycotting instead of writing it off because it feels like an impossible commitment.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

I dumped it on Jan 20 after seeing Bezos at Trump's inauguration. Honestly, after the addiction wore off I don't miss it at all. The biggest change I've noticed is I no longer impulse buy stupid shit I don't need.

[–] thelasttoot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I so badly want to watch the new critical role animated series and conveniently buy and ship Christmas gifts this time of year. God damn it Bezos. All you had to do was not be fucking evil.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unfortunately, it won't make much of a dent at all. Amazon's traditional goods business runs on very thin margins, and they can write it off. Their profit center these days is AWS, and there isn't much you or I can do to boycott that.

That said, I have canceled Prime, and I only use Amazon for some hobbyist stuff that's hard to get from literally anywhere else.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Crashes are good for people that have capital because it lets them buy things that people are forced to sell at a discounted price.

Not because it lets them sell ai. The goal is to snatch up cheap assets to sell when the economy recovers then do it all over again.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Crashes are good for people that have capital because it lets them buy things that people are forced to sell at a discounted price.

Facts. You don't even have to be particularly rich to do it. I had a few thousand I'd saved over a decade in March 2020, used it to buy oil stocks at a 90% discount, then sold it two years later when things rebounded. It wasn't 'fuck you' money, but it allowed me to pay off my student loans.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

my personal plan is to gather as much capital as i can while this everything bubble goes wild (fuck it, look at total volume levels now vs...anytime last 30 years...nobody but degenerate gamblers and those that should know better are playing right now), then...go on a mass-building spree to drive down the price of housing.

high density, high-quality, affordable housing built for sale not rent, sold exclusively to long-time local residents and/or first-time home buyers. my hope is this crashes individual localized housing markets, as the local rent parasites cant find renters and since they probably took loans out on their properties to throw into the casino...

then i swoop in, buy their distressed property on the cheap, throw down even more high-density/quality, affordable housing for sale.

repeat until everyone has a home

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s always pathetic when someone who lives in a completely shielded Elysium accuses others of weakness while erecting barriers to prevent anyone from proving them wrong.

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[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Bezos needs to be reminded his flesh is as soft and squishy as the the rest of the weak.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Except that it won’t eliminate anyone because they will all get a federal bailout.

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[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago

I can't wait for the purge of the billionaire class.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The last crash destroyed families and destroyed lifetimes of savings from the utter devastation of the fallout. My family never recovered and tragedy was the result. I know millions of families will never recover from that and there was no accountability at all. The occupy movement was a genuine working class movement against the criminal oligarchs who destroyed our economy. Unfortunately the book was thrown at the occupy movement and the well funded tea party movement and white nationalist movement was funded by the oligarchs and ignored by lawmakers. This all led to what we’re dealing with today. Families never recovered the cost of living keeps skyrocketing and we keep getting poorer. Unfortunately the correct counter movements get stamped out and the ones that blame minorities get funded and this is where we’re at today….we can’t move any further right we are at the end of the line. The oligarchs need us to fight eachother so they can justify the police state they’re building indefinitely. It’s like System of a Down said “they’re trying to build a prison for you and me to live in”

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

God no! Wow! They'd taste like ketamine and evil!

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even better. The AI Bubble bursting may be good because it may finally wake people the fuck up as to how utterly god-damned stupid their ruling class is and eliminate them.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

By weak he means less rich

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

Translation: will allow them to buy up a bunch of shit for cheap as soon as it bursts

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

if you think you can hide in your bunkers, or compound without paying people that are essentially slaves, they will easily turn on you in the end.

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[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Since Bezos can't perform any of the functions that actually make his company function, it seems the real weakness is at the top.

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

allowing them to offer AI bots to companies and governments to replace human workers

If that's what he expects will happen then he is out of touch with AI and its capabilities. AI nowhere near being capable of completely replacing humans.

In fact the main reason for the AI bubble is because billions have been dumped into it expecting it will be capable of replacing humans, but all it's really good at is making AI slop.

The only jobs it has kind of started replacing, but not really - more like transforming them - are software engineer jobs.

When the economy collapses, it will affect ALL businesses, and all kind of people will lose jobs, from software engineers to teachers to analysts. And none of those jobs can be fully replaced by AI, or it would have happened already.

Bezos is a fucking clown.

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[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Are any of them ready to admit yet that they want our uniquely awful for-profit health care system to stay the way it is for the same reason?

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude could turn it all around if he started preserving the environment somewhat...

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[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

He doesn't care, aws is well placed to boom whatever happens

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

At this point I feel like it’s like an emperor has no clothes situation.

We all know the tech doesn’t work in an intelligent way, but the second the tech CEOs admit it, the bubble will pop.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I don't think arrogance is the right strategy to deal with economic bubbles. With that said, I fully support Amazon's arrogance in the face of AI Bubble because they have it coming.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course he'd say something like that, because he has literally nothing to worry about.

When it's the big guys fucking up, it's us footing the bill.

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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

These bonzos want the world economy to collapse so there will be massive layoffs, allowing them to offer AI bots to companies and governments to replace human workers.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Amazon didn't go the AI route that far. They are a marketplace for AI-gen products, they added summaries to their storefronts, but there is that as far as I know. What Bezos probably wants - is to see newer weirdos like Altman, maybe Musk to get choked, so he becomes the uncontested capitalist #1.

[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest provider of compute resources and servers in the world. They have huge data centres full of servers and Nvidia GPUs that they rent out to AI companies. Almost every fortune 500 spends 7-8 figures $$$ on aws services a year and a lot of smaller companies spend 6-7 figures too.

Amazon invested billions in anthropic who incidentally use their GPUs and sell access to their models via AWS too.

They certainly have skin in the game when it comes to LLMs/GenAI.

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