An excellent essay. Very grim but honest and likely resonates with most people on some level.
America has been a cruel place to be poor since day one. I encourage everyone to read Howard Zinn’s ‘A People's History of the United States’ as it shows a more grounded history of this country. The US needs a workforce of starving, ill, desperate people in order to work. That’s how the system was built: on the backs of African slaves and the European poor.
The unspoken rule of this society is that everyone should rely on their family for help and not the government. This is why life is especially cruel for those with little to no family.
Those who embrace and celebrate AI when there’s a chance it could lead to mass unemployment and suffering should take a long hard look in the mirror.
Any longer or harder than someone using a car, knowing full well the depravity for war caused by a lust for oil, and the chance to get into a car crash every time they get behind the wheel? Or every smartphone user for the use of slavery to procure cobalt the device is dependent on to function?
There's also a chance it could lead to something better. If everyone should rely on their family for help, then if you have the skills to take advantage of the AI boom, then you have a duty to make as much money as possible in order to better be able to provide for said family as times change.
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An excellent essay. Very grim but honest and likely resonates with most people on some level.
America has been a cruel place to be poor since day one. I encourage everyone to read Howard Zinn’s ‘A People's History of the United States’ as it shows a more grounded history of this country. The US needs a workforce of starving, ill, desperate people in order to work. That’s how the system was built: on the backs of African slaves and the European poor.
The unspoken rule of this society is that everyone should rely on their family for help and not the government. This is why life is especially cruel for those with little to no family.
Those who embrace and celebrate AI when there’s a chance it could lead to mass unemployment and suffering should take a long hard look in the mirror.
Any longer or harder than someone using a car, knowing full well the depravity for war caused by a lust for oil, and the chance to get into a car crash every time they get behind the wheel? Or every smartphone user for the use of slavery to procure cobalt the device is dependent on to function?
There's also a chance it could lead to something better. If everyone should rely on their family for help, then if you have the skills to take advantage of the AI boom, then you have a duty to make as much money as possible in order to better be able to provide for said family as times change.