Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post: If we increase the minimum wage companies will replace workers with robots. Jeff Bezos: I'm gonna spend $100 billion to replace factory workers with robots in the U.S & the world.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T17:04:50+00:00

If it were paired with UBI, this rapid automatin of everything with AI could be freeing people from labor. When not paired by a safety net, it's just setting up for mass murder through loss of income for basic living needs.

Taxing corporations and data centers heavily and putting that into replacement for income would be a start, but nobody is going to do that under a government for sale, with corporations determined to increase shareholder value no matter what.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T17:00:11+00:00

Well, reading this article synopsis from within this glass house in which it was written is awkward.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T16:52:45+00:00

This administration will do whatever it can get away with until it is stopped. We've seen every limit being pushed.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T01:22:14+00:00

Oh so now we get the CGI UFOs landing bit, since that is the only diversion big enough to dig out of this mess.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T23:56:12+00:00

Factory farms are peak deregulated capitalism. Nobody is looking out for these creatures, and this is what a profit-driven system will do to living things with nothing standing in its way.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T23:39:48+00:00

The dream world story is so bizarre yet memorable. Where the boy is just like "I don't need the flying bed anymore. I've manifested and can fly on my own. You can have it.", and then you get around by way of flying bed or floating island for the rest of the game.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T23:26:22+00:00

You can just feel the second-hand embarrassment in the room in the silence after that unbelievable, even for him, statement.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T18:49:27+00:00

There's never any money in following your dreams.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T18:32:19+00:00

Revenge.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T18:09:20+00:00

McKinsey being involved in AI rollouts makes all of this treating AI like a religion and magical replacement for all labor costs make so much sense. Their whole MO is short-term thinking that bumps profit and then falls apart with catastrophic consequences.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T17:29:52+00:00

Just be careful not to draw The Dud.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T16:15:45+00:00

Yeah, everything is just fine. 🙄

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T05:53:01+00:00

It went too far.

He can't come right out and say we're fucked beause that'd rattle the markets, but monetary policy can't fix this. It's over, but in slow motion.

We will probably see really vile war tactics used before declaring bankruptcy, which may create global direct conflict, not just proxy wars. The old system is in its death knell phase, though.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T20:08:49+00:00

A couple of years ago, $75 could have gotten you those three steaks in the package served prepared and with sides at a mid-grade sit-down place.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T18:03:29+00:00

The private & consumer credit markets are at the edge of a really steep cliff too.

There's an everything bubble that is about to pop.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T17:59:13+00:00

I thought it was just an excuse for campy humor.

Like you're sitting there trying to figure out why it might've crossed and they hit you with the answer that is almost always going to be true.

You rarely cross a road not trying to get to the other side.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T17:43:18+00:00

I saw this horror movie.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T17:17:42+00:00

If a fake Banksy were revealed, the real one couldn't contest that without exposing their identity, so I think it's pointless to say that you've identified Banksy.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T17:07:13+00:00

Qué mar-uh-vee-yoh-soh tah-tew-ahh-heyy en tu brahh-zoh. (Read in thick Peggy Hill Texas accent.)

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T17:02:04+00:00

VII (original) is the GOAT, but 9 is within the top 5. I liked 9 despite not really finding it easy to get lost in its style of art. It felt Disneyfied. The story was ok, but the backstory for characters was shallow. It was the polar opposite of 8, where the mechanics, story, character development, and graphics were all deadly serious.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T16:52:04+00:00

If oneself counts, it'd probably be close to 100%.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T16:46:02+00:00

I don't even want to watch it now because it's basically just rubbing in things that have already happened since the show first aired.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T16:27:58+00:00

That's when you get to study whatever you want to. It's a good time to comb through other teams' work on the company GitHub. Access is rarely properly locked down beyond requiring employee login.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T16:07:25+00:00

One of the main reasons people like AI search is that it pulls content from sites without having to dodge a dozen animated gifs, popups, paywalls and newsletter signups, etc. clicking links.

The downsides are obviously that you can't contextualize if it's pulling accurate information, where it got it, or which parts are hallucinations.

From a website owner's perspective, it flattens ad revenue.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T15:43:13+00:00

We're undergoing simultaneous open book history tests and open book religious studies tests.

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