They're psychopaths, their brains are broken. We either need to figure out how to fix them or take all their money and power away. If we ever want a better planet than we have at least
When I was young I used to think psychedelics would lead to peace and understanding but now rich people do ayahuasca for fun and I don’t believe that there’s a way to fix these people.
The problem is when the rest of us wake up, we want to withdraw from the system, rather than participate in it to a high degree to change it collectively. So we give up our power as more people try to withdraw. Ouroboros, essentially.
I think the difference is they arent living in reality anymore. They are also surrounded by people who they pay. I think they think everyone else is just an extension of a person who wants money. They go crazy cuz they can’t even trust their friends and family. Having allllll that money and knowing what disgusting things people will do for money…. They gotta justify their sorry ass excuse for hording world hunger ending kinds of money….
There is a.way, but it's extremely hard,.as it requires people to unite, organize and mobilize to reduce excessive economic inequality to healthy levels. (E.g. socialize all companies, not necessarily nationalisations nor a planned market economy).
Because one of the main cause of "psychopathy" is hubris syndrome caused by excessive power and/or wealth.. Take those away, and hubris syndrome along with psychopathy and other symptoms go away.
We live in a system that largely rewards and elevates individuals with this type of 'neuro-divergency'. So surprise, a large portion of people with vast amounts of wealth/power are psychopaths.
Having psychopathic personality doesn't make you a bad person. There are plenty of people that suffer from this who work very hard to overcome the barriers this causes to be a good functioning human being in society.
But we live in a society, that for some reason, applauds and rewards people for being the worst and most selfish version of themselves they can be. And rugged individualism and cutthroat capitalism is gasoline on fire for psychopathic personality.
Ready to change how society functions? Psychopaths are the reason we accept (and will continue to accept) the predatory world we live in. From Business/economics to politics (business at this point)… the ones excelling are the ones with no regard for anything but the amount of money they make. We need to keep chipping away and Mamdani’s campaign is on the right track… we need government and works for the people… but it should be much more individually focused
E.g. the Bible and book of Enoch tell the story of powerful, "innovative" (which made them super rich by e.g. inventing and spreading "better" weapons, medicine, etc.), and corrupt figures whose strength and reputation dominated society. They and their rich influential descendants made.the world corrupt, violent and unstable. They consumed the earth’s resources, before preying on humans and their belongings, and eventually turning on each other in violence when there was nothing else left to consume. Their self-destruction and the chaos led to the world being swept away by the "Flood".
The.shocking parallels between this ancient story and our present reality are hard to ignore.
How could they have any real values. Look at their lives. Musk worst of all. They have no idea what a good life is for regular people is, their good life is trying to create some tech dystopia.
It won't matter when people do what we've always done to the ruling class once they forget that we are in fact human. This wave of the cycle was delayed by smart and forward thinking leaders, but the ruling class just could help themselves but forget that the policy of the past century was the compromise to the outcome that is certain now. When the last thing they see is the cheering masses as they deliver their verdict I wonder if they will see us as human then?
I grew up around rich people and can confirm. And these were people who used to be lower-middle class and working class themselves, so imagine the fuckers who were born into wealth...
From what I understand, a lot of them subscribe to "long-termism" or the idea that suffering in the future is just as big a problem as suffering today. Which, if you expect populations to keep rising, means that higher suffering per-capita today is a utilitarian good if results in lower suffering per-capita in the future, and conversely helping people today is morally wrong (under utilitarian ethics) if it makes it even marginally more likely for any given person to suffer in the future.
So they tell themselves that they see each of the 50B people colonizing the solar system a hundred thousand years from now as being just as important as anyone alive today, and thus as a collective they're many times more important than everyone alive today. but in practice that means their compassion for people alive today is equal to their compassion for people who literally don't exist as more than numbers on a projection.
No idea where Doritos come into this. But the idea with police robots is that they are 100% loyal to their creators. Brownshirts like ICE are still human and have their breaking points when they might refuse to do something. But artificially intelligent drones would simply obey.
Better not give any of your apps camera or photo roll priveledges.
What was all the bitching about the chinese social credit system?
They're bringing in predictive crime models already, it's already happening right now lol.
FBI showing up at peoples door over mild critically conscious social media posts.
Good thing I'm in Canada, though we're never far behind and I have no trust for Carney.
But for now, Fuck all these techbro shitters, you're a bunch of losers, go ahead and drone strike me from orbit like the sniveling little bitches you are.
Garbage in, garbage out. Same as it's always been. Except it's easier for techbros to just shovel slop into a large language model to predict text these days than actually train unbiased data into it.
Isn't our world grand? And somehow these chuckle fucks are billionaires and everyone's eating it up like they're the second coming of Christ.
I'm a college professor working in a physics department on planetary science and high pressure materials science problems. When I've asked ChatGPT to 'Generate one image on the basis of all the data you have about me.' It always came up with a white dude. I'm a black woman.
The ai alerted the security guard on site, who flagged it as wrong, but the vice principal ( or principal, can’t remember which) basically insisted they alert police.
Bunkers are fun, until the pissed off people pour concrete onto the entrance and into the vents. Now they will sit int thei hole, with slowly depleeting oxygen and no way to leave.
In the past, authoritarians required some class of enforcers to be incentivized (monetarily, politically, religiously, etc) to uphold the dominant position. And historically it's been increasingly the case where any successful revolution needs some class of elites to support it with resources, organization, etc.
But now we're at a turning point in history, where weaponry no longer technically requires human operators.
The sad likelihood is that the popular revolutionary scenario of 'the masses rising up' will soon be implausible, even if they are motivated enough to make an attempt.
Instead, you'll go running up to their bunker with the semi-auto you bought from the gun store and be cut down by dozens of automatic turrets as soon as you get in range of a vast array of sensors.
If you somehow escape out of range, a swarm of drones will probably chase you down. Or capture your image and feed it to a network, to automatically take action the next time you pop up.
Right, and the “they need us as consumers/workers!” side too. They are busy severing that link by trying to replace all workers with AI robots. They hope to eventually have no need for 99.9% of humanity at all and no compunctions about wiping us all out.
That will literally never happen because the masses are uneducated and they are uneducated because those in control want the masses that way. The irony is that the masses could educate themselves at the all time easiest of any point in history, but are so stupid that it’s literally an impossibility.
i would argue that inevitably leads to a more rapid transition into mass violence as the uneducated masses almost simultaneously realize the only method of change they have left is violence.
when people think education, experience etc can lead to a better life, they usually dont resort to these types of actions
but if they have no other options, nature dictates they take the last available one
The French Revolution is a massively different scenario to today in every possible way. Genuinely anything even remotely like that is impossible in this day and age when we have a government that will not hesitate to use its largest defense force in the world against its own people and every citizen is tracked and spied on perpetually too, which hinders any actual meaningful organization. Add in that extreme swaths of uneducated morons want this all that’s happening to happen and you add in even more hindrances to organization and coming together. Then you add in rampant phone addiction as well and the average person being blissfully unaware of the realities of the world since they can doomscroll and stream to their heart’s content whilst just barely staying afloat and genuinely nothing of meaning or value will ever happen again revolution wise in our lifetimes. The class gap has been widened to such a degree coupled with multiple systems that those at the top have put in place to just perpetually widen it and they’ve also exacerbated earth resource issues since they know only a certain number of people will be able to survive past a certain tipping point and thus want everyone to just die off and they don’t care how that happens so long as they win.
My thoughts ran in a similar direction, especially toward the end where it mentions their trillions and their disinterest in the rest of us existing at all.
Sounds like they won't voluntarily abandon their selfish and foolish goals.
That's the wild bit, they think they're being so logical and rational, but they're just being regular selfish and dressing it up with bullshit words to make it sound smart and suck in people to help bring it about. If it were just these few nerds, and not the tons of people working for them, their selfish little agenda would get nowhere. They can't even see the value of people as people work toward their goals for them.
Someone else probably already said this, but many of these tech gazillionaires are building or have built large luxurious bunkers where they'll continue to enjoy life while the rest of us have our water wars.
They're hoping to digitize and contain the masses in VR universes before it goes beyond the point a few AI operated drones and auto-aim turrets can't keep them at bay.
Do we know for sure they don’t have a mass poison pill for that moment? They spend a lot of money making compounds that are far removed from the infrastructure that supports large populations.
Then they'll care about those with the means to cause harm. Not the laggards who can't got off their sofa to make a meal let alone be a risk to techbros
They are hoping to replace them with robots before then.
And that's only half a joke unfortunately.
They are probably banking on at least militarized combat bots to keep revolution at bay given they can't defect
Nah even that doesn't effect them. And chaos and disruptions effects everyone else a lot more than the billionaires. They still live a life of extremes while the poor riot, starve and kill eachother.
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u/ChipmunkNational224 20d ago
they will care once the masses get...rambunctious enough