As the US devolves into autocratic plutocracy, the will and needs of the citizenry will be more and or neutered. They want our data, our privacy and above all, our money. We will soon be little more that serfs. And serfs don't need to be taken care of, they're replaceable. Don't forget the evangelicals, they believe the notion man can change what god created to use as we see fit is pure arrogance. They are the useful idiots of the American downfall.

I think this was on here a week ago, 95% of AI initiatives fail to achieve ROI. https://www.axios.com/2025/08/...
This per an MIT study. So no, no increase in GDP.

and getting rid of regulators proves your point how?

More windmills ~ of any size ~ just isn't going to happen soon. https://www.offshorewind.biz/2... . , and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0... Lord Trumpkin just killed another windmill program off Maryland that was ready to go live. The project was built, partially with Dutch energy company investors, and was in the process of plugging into the grid when killed by POTUS. Killing a project at this point signals to the entire world and investor universe that the United States is a bad faith partner, and bad risk for financial investment. This will kill lots of deals across all sectors driving investors to other countries. So much for the "King of the deal".

Some quacks make outrageous claims. Remember klee Irwin talking about his daughters bowels https://www.dailymotion.com/vi...

Banks are raking in record profits https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0... . Trump administration DOGEs federal regulatory agencies, so there's no stops in place to keep banks from gouging customers or protect the consumer. This is unfettered capitalism/ liberal capitalism, or capitalism allowed to operate liberally, without rules. We have returned to the time of the robber barons, as the kleptocrats operate openly and unapologetically.

That's how you pay for it numbnuts, by firing people. In just 2 years, they've been able to whack 50% of the entry tech workers (see previous /. article https://it.slashdot.org/story/... )
The effort is worth something - to the company, if it was just a break even, it wouldn't happen. Even the increased productivity gets sucked up by ownership / shareholders. That's what's happened since the 1970s with technology and there's zero reason to expect it to change. https://www.epi.org/productivi...
Eventually there will be only 2 jobs left.. the guy who owns everything and the other guy who cleans the 1st guy's toilet. Because, even robots have standards.

first - as CO2 levels increase, human cognitive ability decreases. We are in essence making ourselves dumber.
second - no, the world itself will not end. What will end is the planets ability to support life as we know it due to man made climate change. And, before that happens, scarcity of resources will result in the collapse of most, if not all, societies leading to some really unpleasant scenarios.

streamlining operations on an already hyper efficient company increases profit ~ for a while, till competitors catch up ~ but it does not introduce new products and services. aka: innovation.

The tipping point is when enough workers are displaced there's no longer a market of buyers for discretionary items. There will be a handful of oligarchs at the top able to purchase unimaginable luxury, and the rest will live in squaller. Back to the time of kings and surfs. The rich better beware of what they wish for, many "kings" didn't end up well, and many died at the hands of those paid to protect them.

Exactly, I see this in my city. People are all about saving the trees.. Then when they realize tree saving ordinances stops them from cutting trees in ~their~ yard, they go apeshit.

Sure, you can do what ever you want on private land - mostly. However, if you want to develop a big commercial solar plant that plugs into the power grid (yes, I know some local utilities buy home excess power, not talking about that) , big commercial plants need permits. Permits are issued by Governmental Agencies. Government Agencies are run by appointees. Trump Appointees. Look what happened to Net Neutrality, killed by Trump (1) appointee Ajit Pai. . Trump is using executive order and cronies till stopped by judges, and then sometimes he doesn't care. SCOTUS recently ruled that some judges are overreaching their authority when stopping Trumps executive orders so this is no where near settled. Given the degree to which the rest of the GOP is nothing more that a Trump Cult, where's a generation of damage that can be done in the next 3-1/4 years. .

You missed the evangelical Christians who believe God put everything here just for us to use as we desire. To them, the notion that we could somehow corrupt or overuse some resource given to us by God is completely arrogant and nonsensical. If there’s a problem, God will fix it, or, take them, his chosen, to some other Eden at the time of the Rapture – a completely made up word that exists nowhere in any real bible.
Evangelicals Christians are huge Trump supporters. For their support (worship?) , he grants installs federal judges they select. Most of Trumps worst cabinet members and appointees come out of this group.

Lord Trumpkin just slammed the door on further renewable development. The Trump administration will approve no new solar or wind farm development: https://san.com/cc/trump-says-...
Going even farther, he blames renewables for rising electrical prices: https://apnews.com/article/tru...

A single logic gate... ok, a CPU today has millions to billions of logic gates. If each requires multiple lasers, this seems to be both a power and a scaling challenge.