no? i tried my best to perfect my friend circle irl but at the end of the day everyone thinks first and foremost in terms of money and profits at best, and is a raging capitalist at worst... and I'm in one of the places with the higher communist presence. most people irl just think in terms of money and how companies need to make money after all, while the average person has little to no regard for real human expression, so truly the best argument against ai, for at least the average person, is showing how economically unrealistic it is. people will happily put up with shady company practices if it saves them a buck, and if it doesn't they'll happily justify that the company needs to make bank. think of how many people merrily eat McDonald's. i... really just don't see how (almost) everyone isn't brainwashed into being a capitalist. and I'm not even from the US. It's easy to overestimate how many people agree with your opinion when you just hang out in, e.g. lemmy.blahaj.zone. Preventively clearing up: my tone isn't intended to be aggressive or offended, I'm just autistic. And this isn't an argument for humanity being evil at its core, just saying average dude is brainwashed and demoralized out of even arguing against the system.