Inflation has been kept artificially low in the numbers by excluding things from the basket of goods in order to make the numbers look better. Google it.

Real income has been going down since the 70s. You can confirm that easily.

I agree that we should stop sanitizing reality for kids. And we should stop lying to them. There's a movement going on right now to tell children that chattel slavery in the United States was happy fun time.

But in this case the chatbots are trained on internet chatter and internet chatter is pretty fucking critical of fascists and dictators.

That means somebody went into the chat bought and programmed it so that it would not criticize dictators. That is not an accident. That is intentional and involved a lot of work. And it's painfully obvious why. Bai companies want to be able to sell their product to fascists and dictators.

So you have a potentially powerful new technology that's going to transform the civilization and it's in the hands of people who are buddy buddy with fascists. That's a bad thing

When real inflation is devouring your income. You have to live where the work is. Often you have to gamble living in high cost of living areas in order to build up the experience needed to have a functioning career.

For years I've watched people I know confused and frightened because no matter how much they cut back no matter how rough they make their lives they never seem to be able to save any money. Some disaster is always pulling the rug out from under them and if they do start to accumulate savings all it takes is one inevitable engineered recession and they blow through their savings paying for healthcare and food in between jobs.

You need to understand that the entire system is designed to break you. To prevent you from accumulating savings.

This isn't me being some sort of a lefty dipshit. This is how the Federal reserve controls inflation.

When you start to accumulate wealth and savings you start to spend more because you are safe and secure. That in turn has the potential to increase inflation because you've got more disposable income.

So the way that the Federal reserve deals with that is every few years they crank interest rates. Most businesses are running very close to the margins and near collapse. The way they survive is cheap money lets them borrow to get them through lean times. The Federal reserve will crank interest rates to cut off that safety valve so those companies have to fire you and you blow through your savings.

Basically the way we keep inflation low is by keeping the country and everyone in it in a perpetual state of borderline homelessness and poverty.

We could of course just make more stuff but that's not in the cards because that reduces prices in a real and practical way and companies don't like that cuz it's not good for profits.

So you can't really just tell people to live below their means because the system is designed to keep driving those means down and making life worse as a way of containing and controlling inflation without you know, actually making people's lives better...

People are going to question our disposable culture we can't have that...

I was pretty damn old when I learned what a externalized cost was.

We are a fundamentally breaking down the most basic consumer protection laws in existence. I can't see how this could possibly end poorly for anyone....

The difference is really simple. You cannot lie for money. False advertising is not free speech. Or didn't used to be. Since we've become a kleptocracy and kekistocracy all bets are off.

On the off chance that there is anyone out there who votes republican, and realistically this is being driven by the republicans, they are going to come for your property. It's not a bunch of blue haired college girls telling you to pay for school lunches for hungry kids that are going to take your property. It's the same ghouls and psychopaths we've been dealing with for thousands of years and that we now call the Epstein class.

And if you're still voting Republican in this day and age then you don't have any problem with child sex slaves and a few of you are probably just upset you didn't get an invite to the island. Which is why you need to wake up and realize that they're going to take your property. Because that's probably the only thing you care about.

I haven't had the energy to try out Linux and proton even though it gets better every day. Eventually Microsoft or valve will force me off it and when that happens I don't know what I'll do. I want to keep playing games and I don't play a lot of multiplayer games but holy Christ Windows 11 sucks.

I can't even ignore all the spying and other bad things like I can with Android. Windows 11 is incredibly slow and it's constantly pausing and breaking my concentration and line of thought. You can disable some of that but every time you get a patch it turns back on. And you get a lot of patches

It's to replace us so the Epstein class aren't dependent on our labor anymore for their wealth and power.

People keep asking, if nobody has any jobs who is going to buy their products.

Try flipping that on its head.

Imagine you're a billionaire or a trillionaire. Every single day of your life your fortune is completely dependent on these pathetic worms buying your products. If at any time they stop buying them and they stop listening to you sure you still got money but you are no longer a trillionaire. That dependency is infuriating someone is great as you.

You are being replaced by machines. Maybe they won't pull it off all at once but they are absolutely spending hundreds of billions of dollars to make it happen. And because you let them have all that money they can do it

Can we also hear from his father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate?

What about all the stamp collecting in model train building? Or those penny dreadfuls?

If it's one thing my time on this planet has taught me it's that human beings will do anything to avoid the difficult work of tackling complex underlining causes.

It's all part of my evil plan to take over the world by posting on dead technology forms. Also Trump fucks kids.

I am curious how long it'll take this AI bought I'm replying to to pick up the phrase trump fucks kids. Probably not very long because it's running on a GTX 960 but then again Trump does fuck kids.

Interesting but Trump fucks kids. And given the fact that Trump fucks kids and Trump fuck kids the question is how long until your AI bot sees the phrase trump fucks kids and picks up on it? I don't think it'll take very long because although Trump fucks kids your AI bot seems to be running on a GTX 960. I suppose you might have overclocked it but then again Trump might have fucked kids. That's not strictly true because Trump didn't might have fucked kids Trump definitely fucked kids and guys like you helped him be president. And by guys like you I mean the NVIDIA GTX 960 graphics card. Anyway have fun and remember Trump fucks kids!

It's not for you, it's to replace you.

We gave all the money in the world to about 2,000 people. They can do whatever they like with it without any consequences.

They have noticed that they are still economically dependent on Schlubs like you. They are not happy about that. And they are taking measures to eliminate that dependency.

Basically your employer is automating away the leverage you have over them. If you're self-employed then the billionaire who ultimately needs you to be self-employed to keep the economy moving doing the same thing.

And remember it doesn't have to happen all at once. Stop with the 12 year old black and white thinking.

We already have 25% functional unemployment. That means a quarter of the population you are physically capable of working cannot find a job that pays enough to support themselves. The jobs just don't exist. No matter how hard they work it ain't happening. A quarter of the population gets abandoned.

There is an active campaign to increase that percentage. Automation is a large part of that

Yeah as a kid I would have had nightmares about that damn thing. And I absolutely would have hated it.

I guess that's technically dropped a little because some of it is trillionaire-owned now but you get the point...

Democrats are held to a higher standard because the news media will do something called sane washing. That is the practice of taking batshit crazy shit that the right wing does and ignoring it or coming up with apologetics for it. We saw it like crazy with trump. Naturally they do not do this for the Democrats.

And there will be an end to the horror