• mlg@lemmy.world
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    Is it selfish to think the collapse of the economy and potential loss of employment is worth it for component prices to drop back to normal?

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      I’m too burnt out to care about the economy or component prices anymore.

      I just want the morons who got hooked on this shit and ruined their brains into mush using it to reap what they have sowed and face the music when their brain substitute costs more than they could ever afford.

      They thougt they could game the system by saturating everything with metric cartloads of useless slop, the bastards, while those of us with still functioning brains waddled through it and attempted to fix it!? Well, fuck them, now they won’t be able to afford their crutch and their brain will be too far rotten to ever come back!

      We’ll still have to clean their damn mess, of course, and the world will be much worse than before they and their suppliers ruined it, but at least there might finally be a light at the end of the tunnel.

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        I’m excited to see all of the AI slop YouTube channels die. They’ll have to use real photos for once. AI narration might end up being cheap enough that it sticks around unfortunately but at least photos and video will die.

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      We always want the billionaires to get fucked because they caused this. But they’ll game the system when it fails, too. You can’t rely on collapse alone to bring a better world.

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      I mean… both are inevitable… the economy has collapsed for the normal people, and employments been hitting everyone for over a year, and bottom line, either way AI goes… it’s a lot of jobs. IE it fails and shrinks down… all the jobs around it are in trouble, it actually succeeds it’s going to take as many jobs as possible, there’s no job friendly ending to this.

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      I don’t think so. I sometimes think of covid and how when actual calamity hits we suddenly realize money is a kind of fiction. If the economy goes totally to shit we will see no mass starvation and probably not even mass homelessness or else we would have to admit what a giant failure capitalism is.

      Just like covid, at the end of the day when shit hits the fan we retreat back to that archaic and ancient system known as “socialism”.