You go to the right schools and you meet the right people and you get to pretty much do whatever you want. And you get into the schools because your parents get you there and their parents got them there.

If the working class had half the solidarity of the Epstein class we would live in a Utopia

It's not a product it's capital. It's not something you sell the people it's something you use to make things.

It's a labor saving device. Automation. In other words a job killer.

There are studies that clearly indicate that factory automation is responsible for approximately 70% of the Lost middle class jobs since the 1980s.

We have been automating away high paying jobs as fast as we can for decades and AI is just another extension of that.

The Epstein class doesn't want to sell you products. They don't want to have you as an employee. They look back at the Kings and emperors of old and say, that should be me. I shouldn't be dependent on consumers and employees.

They are planning a new world and you're not part of it.

And because nobody gets it unless I say it this way, like George Carlin said it's a big club and you ain't in it.

For some reason one Carlin says that everybody understands but when I explain it it's right out the window.

If we build it, then it will frictionlessly tell us what to build.

My employer announced that AI costs will be billed back to departments. Token use (almost entirely among developers) was cut in half without affecting productivity, and perhaps even enhancing productivity because they had to think a bit about the best use of what they had instead of trying random things.

For a major economic downturn. We are already deeply deeply in the major economic downturn due to the Republicans.

Just hoping we don't have a total complete collapse. You can't keep putting pedophiles in charge of everything and expect things to hold together.

On some level you have to know that.

As for why Democrats are the solution you're not Americans so you wouldn't understand this but we have winner-take-all first past the post voting and we don't have any kind of parliamentary system.

This means we inevitably get two parties because any attempt of the third party just pulls votes away from one of the other two and results in single party rule.

To fix this we would have to overhaul our entire voting and political system but that's easier said than done.

So we have a choice between the Republican party who are openly fascists and getting real comfy with actual Nazis not just the dog whistle kind or our conservative party which is the Democrats.

Remember fascists aren't conservative and the Republican party in America is not a conservative party. They are radical extremists because they will do whatever it takes to get what they want. That leaves the Democrat party as the de facto conservative party in America

This reminds me of a segment I saw about 15 or 20 years ago on a show called "How It's Made" that played on a channel like the Discovery Channel (before all cable became reality TV).

The segment was "How CRTs are Made". I was kind of surprised that CRTs were still being made, but I was especially surprised by the fact that they appeared to be American workers in the factory. They were doing everything pretty much by hand with no automation, and they were making some rather skinny looking CRTs. The show never elaborated on what the CRTs were for, but they sure didn't look like TVs.

I dug into it a bit after that using some clues I noticed in the show, and found out that these were cockpit displays for F15s or similar military aircraft. It's probably an item that you just don't go changing the specs on, and they understandably aren't going to farm out to TCL. I can't imagine how much each one cost, though. And I certainly wouldn't try to rack it up as a "win" for any of GWB's or Obama's trade policies.

It's the only thing holding up the stock market. Frankly I don't want it to burst because when the stock market collapses they're going to take it out of my hide and yours like they always do. If we want to survive that we need a democrat in the White House and Democrats in charge of Congress when it happens and frankly I think we all know that but we'll be damned if we're going to let those highfalutin Washington insiders tell us what to do right?

Also the AI bubble in America is being used to loot our 401ks so we've got a ways to go before it pops. There is 10 trillion dollars there ripe for the taking and the Epstein class will be damned if they let you have it just because it's yours.

Maybe putting an orange pedophile famous for bankrupting businesses and ties to the Russian mafia in charge of your financial future was a bad idea but I'm not an expert.

Modern factories have a little or no jobs once they're built and they don't take all that long to build.

So this is completely irrelevant.

And we all know that although it's true that babies born to smoking mothers are on average smaller some women might prefer smaller babies.

Seriously it doesn't take five phds to figure out that having your body full of microplastics isn't a good thing. The only reason the research is preliminary is because they keep cutting funding to science research for exactly this reason.

It's not that we don't know it's bad to have your balls stuffed with microplastics. It's that we don't know exactly how bad. And it's in that little Gap that they're going to keep you for several decades maybe forever of our democracy collapses.

In the ever collapsing economy brought on by monopolies and the Epstein class that's the only way to do it. Nobody's going to spend the money to do it right.

You have to just force people to use shit software for a while. Microsoft did the same thing. Anyone who remembers how bad word was compared to word perfect should remember being forced to use crap software for no good reason.

The problem is that again our economy is perpetually collapsing because we are fighting among ourselves to see who can make the second trillionaire, and because of that the slightest reduction in productivity can't be allowed. So you can't have people fighting with software hours every day when they could be shuffling money up to the top to see who's going to be that second trillionaire

I don't know about multiplan but word was terrible up through around 97 when it became just barely usable. It wasn't anything I would actually want to use until sometime around 2004 or 2006...

America is in a deep deep recession and we drag the rest of the world down with us. I mentioned it on another comment but Microsoft CEO admitted that they are only expecting 3 to 5% to take the buy out which is about 2 to 3,000 employees. This is cover for firing those 3,000 employees who will be exclusively older employees. In other words it's run of the middle age discrimination. There might be some H1B swaps in there too.

We put in Orange pedophile in charge of the country. Bad things are going to happen and we've got at least two more years of it. After that we need 12 to 16 years of blue rule to clean up this mess and we aren't going to get it...

I found some articles where the CEO talks about the percentage of people he expects to take the deal and it's only 3 to 5%. With 60,000 people even at the top of the range that's only 3000.

That is still significant layoffs clearly indicating we are in a recession. But it's not the insanity of laying off a quarter of your staff.

So what they're doing is they are targeting older employees but they know they're going to get sued and they've been sued several times for targeting older employees and lost. They are hoping the triple whammy of announcing 60,000 offers combined with AI combined with the fact that frankly we are in a recession and you can prove that in court provided you take out the AI spending and that those three things combined will prevent them from getting hit with another judgment for age discrimination.

There is probably also some insourcing and outsourcing going on. Microsoft has been caught multiple times firing American employees and hiring h-1bs.

One of the problems that's stuck out for me when I read the article was that they use layers and layers of contractors before somebody is actually driving a truck.

The reason for that is to avoid legal liability and paying benefits. I think especially the legal liability although it does help that they can underpay the driver's massively. There are examples of drivers making pennies a week because of the scams they run them through.

And God help you if you get hit by a semi.

Every single company involved in it will play a game of not if to avoid paying for your injuries and the shell company that the driver actually is legally working for gets folded immediately. If you get any money out of it it will be much less than you are due, you will settle and you will settle with a company that is a little worried about bad press but not much else.

Is probably already on Firefox. You get the same problem with left-wing politics where they are always preaching to the converted. You do need a little bit of that but it doesn't get you new converts.