Full disclosure, I didn't really expect you to understand the point. If the majority of you did, your society wouldn't be as fucked as it is now.

You're not thinking about the trillions of dollars and cheap imports that being the world's primary currency gets you. It's a form of economic colonialism and China would love to have it. So would any European country.

America is very close to handing nuclear launch codes to religious lunatics. One more election and it happens.

These people believe God will protect them from literally anything. I know because I have family like this.

They will launch those nukes. And is America's empire fails we are going to have to start doing military expansion to maintain our economy. We are already moving into Venezuela to take the oil for exactly that reason. Canada and Mexico and the rest of South America will follow. Europe will be next and eventually we'll try our chances with China.

The rest of the world ought to be interfering with the Russian interference that's getting us into this mess but they're all hoping that America will collapse letting them take over as the primary world power and letting their currency take over as the world's de facto currency. If they can pull that off then they're a billionaires get to become the first trillionaires instead of our billionaires becoming the first trillionaires.

The problem is everyone is underestimating how fucking crazy my country is. We will launch those nukes folks. Especially if the religious lunatics who are currently running our government finish the project 2025 work they've been planning for 60 years and end up in total control.

So people with degrees have opinions on their value? Yeah, please fuck off. My degree got me out of the poverty I was born into. Most degrees are pointless, but what doors did you think a history degree would open up? Look...folks can say whatever the fuck they want, but their behavior is what matters. Did I learn anything relevant to my career? Nope, not one thing.

However, many hiring managers called me and ignored some guy with no degree who was equally qualified, especially when starting out. Many bosses have pools of equally qualified engineers and choose the ones with better education for leadership positions. Why? They have their internal biases.

People can say they base decisions on merit, but the clear pattern emerges...people with degrees get promoted faster...and I know those fuckers and some are fucking useless and need to be fired.

Frankly, these speeches from Peter Thiel and others ring hallow. It makes him sound cool to thumb his nose at the educational institutions and say they're useless, but I'll wager your upper ranks are filled with well educated individuals who got promoted over slightly more qualified peers with lesser educations. It's like listening to some vapid hot chick say that race and height don't matter, but her dating history is nothing but tall white guys. Your words mean nothing, only your actions matter.

If you're young...and let's face it, no one on Slashdot is younger than 40, so I am speaking to the wrong crowd...get a fucking degree and get a useful one. You only have a small window to get one...you don't want to be getting a bachelor's degree at age 40. It's a fucking hoop you have to jump through to get a job...it's pointless and stupid, but if you're young, you're used to doing stupid things....I'd never be able to go back to school just because I value my time too much and know calculus is fucking pointless or whatever stupid math class they want to teach you these days to get a computer related degree. On the plus side, it's a great env to get laid in!!

You're conflating education with vocational training.

A master's degree isn't for earning money, it's for shaping your intellect.

it has detailed arguments in between making fun of idiots who think hyperloop is real.

If you can't be arsed to learn things though I can't help you. Maybe reddit's "conservative" forum is more your speed then. They'll do a good job of protecting you from knowledge.

Did you know they had a week long gap in new posts when the voting on the Epstein files was going on?

That's part of it but you need to remember that every single one of those Rich fuckers is a crook.

This means they fully expect their kids to be the target of a wide range of scams and ripoffs and they want their kids to be able to think critically so that they don't fall for that shit.

Some of them are so dumb they still do like Trump. But if that happens the elites have solidarity and they take care of each other.

Occasionally you will get somebody like Bernie Madoff or Elizabeth Holmes that manages to get through that system but when it happens and they get caught they go to jail for decades.

You know there are people who do this thing called being born and then they grow up and then they have to buy things because you're not born with a 32 GB memory kit. At least I wasn't maybe that's a birth defect...

Away from the build-out being finished. The bubble isn't a bubble it's not going to pop. The infrastructure isn't going to get shut down and sold off it's going to get used.

Like I mentioned on another thread the problem AI solves is wages. Paying wages.

This means that AI isn't going anywhere. Now a whole bunch of companies will collapse and the banks will be in trouble because they would have loaned those companies hundreds of billions of dollars. But you're just going to have to bail those Banks out or they will take the entire economy down with them and you will lose your retirement and your job.

There are solutions to all of these problems but none of them are acceptable to the average voter.

Even in the current environment they are objectively wrong. All the study proves is that propaganda works.

The ruling elite has decided they do not want you to be educated. They have spent a lot of money to convince you that you do not need to be educated.

You can tell they're lying because they don't tell their kids to go become plumbers. They send them to very expensive schools with a lot of humanities courses so that they can be taught critical thinking

I know tech nerds don't like the humanities but when you are dealing with someone who does not automatically think critically about information that is how you teach them to do it. This is why you will always find lots of humanities classes at expensive schools.

It's not about cost it's about dependency. As it stands if you're a billionaire you are completely dependent on employees and consumers for your wealth and prestige and power

They don't like that. They don't like that at all.

So they are more than happy to spend more resources especially since they have unlimited resources because we let them have unlimited resources.

When I say that they are dismantling capitalism this is what I mean. It means that profit and loss are no longer the driving motivators in human economic interaction.

To make it happen. You need to come up with a better answer than "that won't work".

Explain to yourself why it won't work. If you can't do that then you are just coping with the coming crisis.

Has several detailed videos that are highly amusing explaining why this is a scam. I am a little surprised to see Europe getting in on the scam though.

I wonder if this is just one of the mill corruption with money being handed out to people or if this is like how in America hyperloop bullshit with used to shut down high speed rail in California.

Whatever the case it's frustrating to see this scam still continuing on

Want to market? You need to read up on the history of antitrust law or literally pay attention to anything that's going on in the economy right now. Capitalists especially the billionaire ones do not want a market they want absolute control and power.

Billionaires are in the process of dismantling capitalism and replacing it with a feudal system. With themselves as the Lord's and machines is the peasantry. They will have a handful of scribes in the form of engineers keeping the machines running and a handful of knights as thugs to keep the scribes in line

AI was going to solve so that was worth a trillion dollars.

Wages. The problem AI is designed to solve is paying wages.