• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    That’s someone else’s problem. They only care about making money this quarter

    Same as if all of civilization collapses because of climate change caused by global warming. It’s someone else’s problem, they’re just making money for themselves right now. Consequences are for the government that only suckers pay taxes into.

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    If 90% of the country is unemployed they’ll work for us and we increase the UBI they pay us.

    Or we have a very abrupt reordering of things.

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    Naw, flawed argument, they steal our resources and then fund themselves by illegal and manipulative means.

    Also the economy is shifting where the top 1% are moving closer to being 50% of spending, making the argument rather void.

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      This isn’t really sustainable though. Regardless of how rich you are, you only really need 1, maybe 2 pillows. You can only get so many haircuts in a year. They do absolutely need the poors.

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    They can sell to each other and centralize luxury and technology in their circle.

    Mega corpos don’t need poor consumers.

    Edit:

    Corpos want deregulation, monopolistic/cartelic market position, unaffordability for average people for education and technology.

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      Agreed. We are already kind of there. We have enough food to feed everybody but the people who access it are those with enough money. Profitable food is what gets investments, not healthy food. And what we see more and more is that profits are not driven by feeding the best quality to the most people.

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    How come these C-Suites never consider AI for the positions it would probably be best at: their own.

    Isn’t it funny how the “human employee removal ray” is never aimed at them?

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    The top few percent spend do much more money compared to everyone else that the top companies will happily continue targeting them and making money hand over fist even if the bottom 90% can’t afford shit anymore.

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    So obvious it hurts. That’s why these morons should read Marx, who provides a clear blueprint on how capitalism works. It’s all there!

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    Heard that CEO tenure is historically lower than it’s ever been. So their response is, “sounds like the other guy’s problem…”

    Kind of seems like that’s part of the problem? But what do I know, I’m just a toddler that stole Mommy’s phone and typed this quickly before she found me and 6&__++3GFd GGG vgggvfh42467!:"hhhghgjjj!!!

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    Other corporations.

    Capitalism is cannibalisitic. left unchecked it will destroy itself, the planet and everything else with it.

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    Question:
    How is Big Oil™ going to make a profit when the world is ruined and the population are dead?

    Answer:
    Lol, don’t care. That’s someone else’s problem.

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        Because look at the age of those in charge. A majority are ancient, and they know they are dying.

        They are trying to take their riches with them, like the Pharoahs of old.

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          And the rest have golden parachutes waiting for them regardless of how good or bad they actually end up being at their job