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'I think those people are dead wrong': Jeff Bezos slams AI naysayers, plays down job fears for young workers, and defends billionaires and Trump (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 42 points 4 months ago (9 children)

These billionaire ghouls just don't know when to stfu

I honestly cannot imagine being THAT rich, being able to do anything, and still being such a massive piece of shit

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You don't get to be that rich without being a massive piece of shit.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Exactly. Average asshole gets a billion, they get a financial advisor, let their money turn into generational wealth with investments, and donate to charity while living in a big mansion.

    The billionaires we have are more of mentally sick wannabe dragons, the horde will never be big enough to satisfy them.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Hell, that will happen at tens of millions. The magnitude of a billion is crazy.

    Even if they are more driven to keep going, others turn to more philanthropic pursuits. Well before a billion the number becomes more like a high score rather than giving any quality of life improvements, so what's the point of getting more? Most will want to mean more to the world than just some high score. So accumulated wealth starts getting directed away for all but sociopaths that relish the high score in and of itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Or what? What are you(plural) gunna do about it? They keep getting away with it so what is this “when” you speak of and what’s going to happen?

    Even small children and animals learn very quickly that empty threats are far more cringey than scary and begin ignoring them almost immediately. These are grown people who’ve lived their whole lives without consequences and you think they give a shit?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Exactly. They have so much money they could fuck off somewhere and live the rest of their lives and their families in sumptous luxury without even having made a dent in their fortune. Yet they continue to stick around and work hard at ruining everything for the rest of us, just so that they can add extra billions to their billions.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    just don't know when to stfu

    I don't think they can afford to, if they're betting on this technology. They have to use their public influence to convince as many (important) people as possible for as long as possible to squeeze as much money as possible. After all, if these successful CEOs say it's good, other CEOs may be swayed as well, and they're the suckers that'll end up deciding to spend the fruit of other people's labour on infrastructure and tokens.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I don’t think they can afford to

    These people literally have fuck you money, they can afford a fuck-up like the AI bubble popping tens of times over if not endlessly with their countless legal loopholes. Their attitudes are based purely on having never faced repercussions for their societal parasitism and an insatiable desire for "more".

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Oh sure they have to influence, but I would expect them to do so a bit more on the down low. If they have a whiff of self awareness, they know this will just do more harm than good to their interests.

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