Raw LLM Responses

To be fair to them the even less likable guy did basically describe communism, and they both talked about wealth taxes in an obtuse way. @15m he mentions only those top 4 god-tier call center workers will remain for when the bots fail; but how do you get new god-tier call center workers when you don't have lower tier ones? Same question for cybersecurity or programming or any other job where the entry-level gets wiped out. College is already too expensive, and OTJ training isn't done anymore. @23m They have indoor plumbing for now. That's the last of their generational wealth being burned up for the most part. Homelessness is increasing. So far nothing I've seen shows AI as a wealth distributor. All the money is flowing towards those selling the tokens, not the ones doing 'work' with the result from the tokens. AI can't do much basic research, it can't cure all cancer without a massive and comprehensive and accurate database of how cancer works in many humans. It requires capital to meaningfully participate in capitalism. Like Jon said you don't rise with the tide if you don't have a boat. Those with extra boats will be happy to let you rent one, hopefully you can be happy owning nothing. All it'll cost is everything you produce that the AI can't. The only country to ever use nukes in anger was a democracy. I'm not that worried about China getting an AI, not because they don't suck. They do in many ways. But because I'm more worried about a non-state, countryless, actor using it for ill. Doesn't wage insurance lubricate the layoff process? Layoff all your current workers, wait till their wage insurance kicks in then hire them back for half what you were paying them while the gov't picks up the rest of their tab. It's yet another tax giveaway to the corpos. @53:40 YES! Tax wealth at least as much as work. No taxation without representation, and no representation without taxation. The corpos and lobbyists get all the policy carve-outs they want with a pittance. Meanwhile us wage workers are paying 40% of our paycheck to get what... some more bombs for Israel? @56m So the workers would collectively own [shares of] the means of production? Sure, let's try that. It sounds a lot like something some old super-bearded guy was talking about back in the day. @58m I like this guy more and more. Yeah, UBI has a boatload of problems. That two-tier system he's talking about isn't one of the issues I usually bring up; but it's true. What I usually ask is "how do you prevent landlords from jacking up rents by whatever the UBI is?" Swap 'landlord' for any profit-seeking entity. How do you do UBI without massive price inflation, massive greedflation? I would do it Belter style instead of Earthgov style. Instead of giving people dollars or coupons for food just give them the food. Swap ''food' for healthcare, education, shelter, and so on. Still have the problem of what the unemployable masses do all day, people went nuckin futz after a week of lockdowns during vocid. As Jon points out: The system is designed to funnel wealth to the wealthy. If we do a UBI or similar cash handout it'll increase gov't debt/deficit while also increasing the tech-bros bank accounts. Government should fear and work for the people. The people should fear and work for the corpos. Corpos should fear the government. Poof, balanced system. Until the corpos buy the government, or till public-private-profitships end up with the corpos owning everything by default. I do like how these guys poopoo the idea of capital flight or the inability to regulate them. Where is google going to get another 350 million folks willing to fall for their advertising? Where is Amazon going to find 350 million folks able to buy their plastic slop? Even on an individual level capital flight happens way less than econ-bros fearmonger about, but on a megacorp level it just won't/can't happen till we colonize Mars, at least.