To fix the problems Republicans inevitably cause with their trickled down lies and idiot moral panics.

We didn't get that this time. And we've had 60 years of right wingers sabotaging the economy.

The coming crash is going to be brutal and I don't think we can do anything about it.

The only possible fix would be to give the Democrats a super majority in the Senate during the midterm elections so they could completely undo and course correct decades of economic mismanagement and sabotage from Republican rule.

There is no way you can get people to understand that or to prevents distraction from whichever moral panic fits their fancy the most.

By 2028 many of the people here reading this will be homeless. Some of you might at least have a roof over your head if family takes you in. Good luck. It is as has been in America for decades now every man for himself. And we will continue to worship at the altar of I got mine fuck you

Just because there are people available to work that doesn't mean they will be hired. And they won't be hired because of AI.

If the GOP continues to run the government the old people won't be a problem either because they will die when they lose health coverage.

Creating icons in the game is part of creating the game. You just said it wasn't used for that and then said it was used for that.

"I'm against AI slop as much as anyone, and in general a fan of regulation, but this really is something that should be solved by the market. If people don't want AI slop, let them not buy it"

This isn't about the slop. If you're a fan of regulation, and saving jobs isn't a good enough reason for you, wait you're not actually a fan.

My local supermarkets, at least the ones where I shop, don't allow purchases with credit. This is irritating AF even though I have the money in the bank because I get a percentage back.

So the CIA doesn't really work anymore. After 70 years people have gotten wise to their tricks. There were multiple efforts to depose South American heads of state that were less than perfect for the CIA and American interests (and by American interests I mean American corporate interests, not your interests). Those attempts failed.

That's why we're getting ready to go to war with Venezuela so we can take the oil and so Trump can distract from the Epstein files. In the old days we could easily depose a weak dictator like Maduro. The fact that we can't and that we have failed after two or three attempts is a sign of massive changes in foreign policy and what works and what doesn't.

Right, it's going to take Jihad.

This isn't like when the buggy whip workers could go work for the car companies. There's nothing replacing the jobs being eliminated. Sit down and try to make a list of them. You can't. This is pure automation. It's causing raw technological unemployment.

And we better figure out something because 25% is the magic number.

That's the unemployment rate that preceded both world wars.

While also getting that sweet sweet 30% like Valve does.

I kind of see gaming rapidly becoming unaffordable though. Back in the day it was affordable in America because you would see steep steep discounts on last generation hardware but I'm not really seeing that the same way anymore. I guess games do still get discounted so there is that but when you're looking at having to drop anywhere from $700 to $1,000 for a game console that you're expected to buy again every 5 years that gets tough.

The developers behind the outer worlds complained the sales were well below expectations but the game launched for $80.

We paid more for games back in the day if we bought them at lunch but the economy was a hell of a lot better back then.

They are fascist dictatorships with state-owned capitalist systems. That's kind of the problem. Any attempts to transition to socialism gets sabotaged by a combination of capitalists and violent psychopaths passing themselves off as socialist reformers.

I don't think anyone has actually tried socialism. The problem is the capitalists use violence to prevent a transition to socialism and then the socialists respond in kind and then it becomes a fight to see who's the best at violence.

The problem is people who are good at violence aren't good at running a country. They're just really good at violence.

Furthermore you need a strong command structure to win with violence and that lends itself to right-wing extremism which in turn gets you fascism and a dictatorship.

We watched that play out multiple times. Russia and China the most notable examples where the most violent psychopath ended up in charge.

I think some of the South American nations made a real go at proper socialism but America heavily interfered.

That said I live in the real world and I can't pretend that interference doesn't exist. That's why I'm not a socialist. You can't have that kind of system when you have people with this much money and power in the world. They won't allow it. And they will sabotage any attempt to do it.