Yeah they do realize. That’s why the billionaires are all building bunkers. Also the Trump admin gave 40 billion to stabilize Argentina where Milei is creating the conditions for AI corporations and the ultra rich’s network state wet dreams. The whole move is to strip mine American wealth till the bottom falls out. They come out of it rich beyond reason and we get left with the austerity.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/argentina-legalize-non-human-corporations-ai
Typical fragile ego response from a man-child wanting so desperately to be the victim. Maybe people just don’t want another fucking reality TV star in office. Electing people to higher level positions in government with no experience at all in government rarely works out well. Same reason you don’t typically hire a mailroom clerk to be the CEO.
Duh, this rigged economy keeps the rich getting richer and fucking over the majority. A raised price is little consequence to them - it’s a luxury item. Fuck capitalism.
Lots of places still pushing forward against people’s wishes though. Construction is real easy to interrupt though and these over leveraged companies can’t afford the delays. It’d be real easy to derail this shit if people start acting.
Trump really wants in the history books - this classless, corrupt, grimy event will likely wind up there - not in the way he wants though
They already are. And paypal, stripe, etc. They are all in an “arms race” to become the preferred AI shopping payment system.
Add Elon Musk himself and any other billionaires as targets too please.
They are so shocked that no one likes their fucking AI or their data centers. Yet the same people go around selling every investor on AI replacing workers. The same people go out of their way to cut every social safety net so they can get tax breaks to make themselves more obscenely rich. The same people raise prices, drive down wages, cut benefits, lay off people, and bust unions every chance they get to juice stock prices.
Gee golly, why don’t people trust us that we are making a better world? 🤦♂️
I not only read the article, I read other publications on the subject. Visa gave ChatGPT access to the core security and transaction infrastructure of VisaNet itself. They say “the integration is designed with a layered, security-first approach where the AI agent never sees or stores a user’s raw credit card number.” I am very weary of this integration level because AI agent security is shit. Visa or any CC company could opt in all accounts to the program by default in their backend so anyone who links their Chat GPT account can seamlessly activate the features from Chat GPT’s side. What is stopping bad actors from opening Chat GPT accounts, stating to the AI agent they are me from one of a million data breaches, and tricking the AI agent to activating the Chat GPT credit integration for their Chat GPT account? Sure, they don’t get the credit card number but it’s still charging me. Scammers are already tricking AI agents to take over accounts from many other sites. I am not happy about the sloppy security protocols implemented by rushed AI integration and the way Visa is integrating this feature so deeply has me concerned - especially with so many companies doing auto opt-ins. The feature idea doesn’t seem awful if people want to use it. I just don’t want the ability to charge my credit card exposed to Chat GPT and from what I read I’m not convinced it isn’t. These companies are rolling out AI features too quickly to appease share holders itchy for returns and they aren’t being careful enough with security guard rails. I don’t want to spend my free time fighting charges I didn’t make.
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Billionaires will keep doing whatever they want as long as they never face consequences. Seems like the people are going to have to take inflicting consequences into our own hands.
Yet no consequences for Americans implicated in the Epstein files.
It’s a pilot program now, but corporations commonly change policy and widely implement things as auto opt-in. My statement stands.
This better not be an auto opt in scenario. This has the potential to fuck a lot of people out of money. This feature is stupid and shouldn’t be forced on anyone.
What do you expect from people who follow a 2,000+ year old book written by people we’d consider insane if we tried to speak with them today. It offers zero proof of its god and no one to this day has been able to bring any evidence. The bible’s been rewritten over a dozen times under the influence of kings with their own agendas. Yet somehow this work of fiction (by all applicable standards it should be) is what these people form their lives around. They magically always find a way to interpret its passages to support their own biases. Regardless of the amazing ideas philosophy and science have brought to humanity, they keep retreating to the magical thinking of the past. Of course they hate progress like women having power in their little club.
Do these people not think how face scans of a historically marginalized group could be used by bad actors? Especially when project 2025 explicitly targets LGBTQ+ people and the rise of Christian nationalism. You don’t have to dig far in the right wing discourse to find calls for direct persecution of LGBTQ+ people. This is just dense and naive.
The Trump regime is so fucking hateful. Seriously evil people. Their cruelty is not emphasized enough.
“While Israel was dropping white phosphorus on people in Lebanon, The New York Times called it a munition that “can be extremely harmful.” White phosphorus burns through skin to the bone. They called it “harmful.” Like cholesterol. Like skipping the gym.
This is the same paper that spent two months interviewing women who dated Graham Platner, hunting for something disqualifying. White phosphorus on civilians gets “can be extremely harmful.” Graham’s private life gets a microscope.”
Excerpt From
“Is Graham Platner Fit to Be a US Senator?”
The Nation
It should be 100% tax after an amount is reached - lets say 1 billion. At that level your quality life could not be improved by more money. Anything over that is just used to buy influence and corrupt and it’s hurting society. It’s running up the score on a game you already “won.” All money after that should be your contribution to the society that created your wealth. They can put the extra money you were taxed to help society on a big score board so you can feel special and thumb your nose at your billion dollar club buddies.