It absolutely is gambling. There may be a wealth of information provided; however, all parties are incentivized to lie. Is the board going to sell out to private equity? Is the next CEO going to be an utterly incompetent nepo baby? Is a hostile takeover going to happen? There is an infinite amount of information that the investor knows nothing about; therefore, it is ALL gambling.

"Buy index funds" Why? So Goldman Sachs can dump losing stocks into my portfolio?

It is gambling.

As well they should. A parasite is still a parasite, regardless of its other behaviors.

If you think it is about money rather than control, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you.

That is a possibility; however, they have proven over and over again that they do not care what the customer wants and only seek to enrich themselves and maintain the maximum amount of control, so it doesn't matter that there is no conspiracy here. Any gains they see absolutely will be used against the customer.

Indeed. They removed the ability to reorient the taskbar, an ability that has been around since Windows 95, merely because only a million people used it. You trust those people? Moron. Stop shilling for them.

What we want doesn't matter. What people with money want is control of you and I, and might makes right, so they will get it. Enjoy.

ROFLMAO. Not even close to the biggest theft in history. I am guessing you are too young to remember Savings and Loans and FSLIC? Trillions stolen. OpenAI is chump change. Or, how about Social Security? All of that money goes into bonds which moves that money out of Social Security accounts and moves it all into the General Fund. Trillions stolen and meager Social Security checks for the people. There will be absolutely nothing left for you in a few years.

Billions stolen. Largest theft in history. LOL.

"Might makes right" is the national motto. Only losers care about rules.

Power has been concentrated and that power wants this. It absolutely is inevitable; however, it is not stable or maintainable, so it will fail. VERY DISASTROUSLY, but it will fail just as inevitably as it will arrive.

Centralized power is the goal. Yes, it can and will be abused, but it is worth it. There will finally be complete control! Hurray!

This is a post-law world bro. What is written on paper is only useful as toilet paper now.

Not if there is an agenda to serve: In this case, reliance on society/removal of individual freedom.

There will not be a "next administration". It is "Republicans" until the USA legally crumbles. Technically, the USA has already fallen. When an administration does not respect its own rules, that is the end of the identity of that nation.

It is in the hands of the owner. The problem is that you think the person who purchased it is the owner. That is patently not true. The owner is the one who can turn off the car whenever they wish. The owner is the one who can track the car whenever they want. The owner is the one who controls all of the logs.

Just because you "purchased" it, that does not make you the owner. Same with every other device you have like a phone or a computer. You are merely paying a one-time rental fee to use it, you do not actually own it. Expect that one time fee to become a recurring fee soonish.

In the USA, a billionaire can and will backdoor your union and make it toothless for the rank and file. An environmental change is needed. The 'system' itself is against the people. To speak more plainly: There is no way to alter the system from within the system as the basic law of the land is bendable to a person's will.

Why dig a ditch at all if there are no humans around to receive the benefits of it? I REALLY don't think anyone fully thought this through. Let's say that I and a few others receive the full benefits of AI. I don't even like those others, I prefer different types of people... and yet they no longer exist. They had no money for food and shelter and just died off. So I go down to the dance club to meet new people, but there is nobody there. They all died from exposure and starvation.

So I go home and turn on the TV... but all I see is static. There is nobody to make new shows or provide the news. There are no more sports teams to watch. It is just me, 20 thousand other people like me, and none of us like each other and none of want to or are capable of creating music, fine art, etc.

I have spent my entire life thinking other people are Hell... but I found out, too late, that other people make heaven possible.

Dude. Give it up. The money was stolen and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it (FSLIC anyone?). Stop whining and start stealing. Everyone else is.

I used to believe like you do and I still behave that way; however, is 'ethics' really a thing anymore? All day, every day, I see unethical actions that nobody addresses. Look at how Bin Laden was captured. Nary a peep out of anyone. Look at how Supreme Court justices are somehow fortunate enough to be able to have 'friends' who gift them things a common person could only dream of. I will not even mention 'he who should not be named'. Congress is a mess of unethical actions that they can not even be investigated for anymore. ABSCAM anyone? What about the straight up looting of the Social Security fund. Yeah, yeah, I know, it is all safe in government bonds... and yet somehow or another, even just 10 years after the law passed that allowed it, there were cries about how the Social Security fund would be insolvent. When that law was passed, the Social Security fund had 300 billion dollars in excess funds. Once that money became part of the General Fund (through Bonds), it all evaporated.

No, there is nothing ethical about this world. I feel like a sucker for trying to be ethical within it.