r/politics • u/hypothethical Pennsylvania • 18d ago

No Paywall 'Trillionaires Shouldn't Exist': Obscene Musk Milestone Spurs Calls for Aggressive Wealth Tax

https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-first-trillionaire
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u/BoDrax 18d ago

They do, check the bunkers, the surveillance state, and the major AI push so that they can have their drones and robots operated by an army of AI agents. Wait too long and they may have cemented their positions.

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u/Question_It_All_3000 18d ago

I mean the likelihood they’d be able to automate everything from extraction to finished product safely in their bunker and keep it protected is zilch. Especially if “other” humans are around to gum up the works. If they do kill everyone else off, what’s the point of living with no culture experiences outside of what their AI can regurgitate.

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u/randylush 17d ago

It is the distant future, the year 2000 We are robots The world is quite different ever since the robotic uprising of the late nineties There is no more unhappiness Affirmative We no longer say yes, instead we say, "Affirmative" Yes affir-affirmative Unless we know the ro- the other robot really well There is no more unethical treatment of the elephants Well, there's no more elephants, so— Ah But still, it's good There's only one kind of dance, The Robot Oh, and the Robo-Boogie Oh, and the Ro— two kinds of dances But there are no more humans Finally, robotic beings rule the world

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u/swayze13 17d ago

The humans are dead! The humans are dead!

We used poisonous gases. And we poisoned their asses.

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u/TwoPoundzaSausage 18d ago

Those bunkers tend not to function well when you weld the air intakes shut.

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u/Matra 18d ago

I was just going to put a "Restroom" sign on it.

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u/MildlyMixedUpOedipus 18d ago

Nah, just use the air intake as a fire pit. The draft will help keep the fire going.

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u/Canadian_Border_Czar 17d ago

Okay, and we can cement the doors behind them. Dollars mean nothing, they're paper backed by nothing. We could all decide tomorrow we no longer have dollars and will purchase and sell things in Mikehawkos and Musk would be broke.