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People have become generally corrupt. Voted for a President convicted of like 34 counts of fraud, investigations into fraud have disappears, people convicted of fraud have been pardoned, corporations openly bribing the government. Social media is filled with training courses on how to scam people and most of those courses are themselves a scam.
AI (and crypto before that) are just technological expressions of deep rooted corruption. And laziness... all a part of the get rich quick mentality that considers hard work to be for suckers.
Funny thing is, these things only work well because there aren't too many people doing it. The more corrupt we get, the less corruption will be worth it. Who will the scammers scam if nobody generates income to scam away? Who'll reap the benefits of dirt cheap items if everyone who wants to buy it is dead? Once there's no hardworkers, there's no fruit of hardwork to steal away..
I hate intentionally malicious people. I mean I understand if a poor family steals fruits to eat, I don't understand when someone steals to be able to buy a third or fifth luxury car.
There's no long term plan for corruption, it's just I'm gonna make mine right now.
Actually it's the opposite. You have no choice but to engage in corruption when everyone else is corrupt. You need to pay the bills so you do the corrupt thing that your company tells you to do.
Things just start falling apart. That's already happening. We have terms like "enshittification" for it, but it's essentially corruption. It's becoming less common to simply buy a decent product for a reasonable price. It used to be if a product is bad it's because the people at that company were incompetent. Now it's more of a problem that the product is designed to be bad so they can collect data and advertise to you. Political discourse isn't so much about discussing the issues, it's about figuring out a way to manipulate others so you benefit. We're all a part of it.
That's what I mean. The more corruption there is, the less corruption will reward, so you need to do more of it; It will exponentially increase.
I think their goal was to get to autonomous robots and AI and whatnot before global warming starts killing off people in the millions and damages the global economy to the point that all that money is worth a lot less, but I also think they don't understand that that kind of thing only works in a healthy, continuous society.
"They" generally referring to the ultra wealthy. Maybe they watch too many movies and think once you make an intelligent robot it just does its own maintenance.