• zergtoshi@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Oh, do the CEOs finally realize that underpaid workers, AI agents and robots don’t go on shopping sprees?
    They should raise their pay for that nobel prize worthy brilliance.

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      2 days ago

      AI funny enough is expensive asf for companies, if not sooner than later. that cost for maintaining a datacenter has to come from somewhere.

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        2 days ago

        I’m afraid the AI bros have a plan to integrate AI everywhere and once it becomes clear that it’s not economically viable to operate their AI nonsense, they’ll whine about it being a systemic risk to have them go down.
        Let’s have the public bail out another sector that miscaculated financially and interweaved itself in ways with the world that letting the AI corpos go bankrupt will look like the worse of two scenarios…

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      3 days ago

      Oh man, a shopping spree… Unless it’s food, I don’t make a purchase without considering it for at least 6 months before hand.

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        17 hours ago

        Unless it’s an immediate, justifiable need, say washing machine breaks down and using a laundromat for six months would eat up money better spent for the washing machine, this is just a good idea, anyway. Marketing companies are evil and sell based on implanting false and mutable emotional whims, the time spent considering gives those projected mutable emotions time to clear.

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        3 days ago

        I’m really sorry about the hardships you face that are representative of an ongoing development over the last decades.
        Moving more and ever more wealth into the pockets of the Epstein class is making that wealth missing elsewhere - the people who create that wealth by working are devoid of it.

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          3 days ago

          I must have made it sound harder than it is, but my household income is well above the poverty line, and I don’t have any kids. Even with that financial flexibility though, I still can’t afford to spend recklessly.

          Let’s put it this way, my last big “non-necessary” purchase was a firearm, and I literally reviewed it and considered it for 3 years. For a less than 1000 dollar purchase.

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            3 days ago

            I think it’s hard enough and harder than it had to be.
            There’s plenty of wealth, food, housing, etc. but it’s not fairly distributed and the distribution just gets more and more skewed due to tax rules and other regulations in favor of the richᵀᴹ.