Why are you so accepting of rich people stealing from you? People like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates only became mega wealthy because of government funding they recieved. I too could be uber wealthy like Elon if the government freely gave me billions of taxpayer money with no strings attached. This is not a joke or hyperbole; our government has given Elon over $30 billion that he’s pissed away investing in AI anime chatbots and silencing dozens of his baby mamas.

Doesn’t that upset you? Doesn’t it make you angry that your hard earned money is funding the drug addiction and lavish lifestyle of some halfwit from South Africa who hasn’t worked a day in his life? Why is your focus on lecturing people with full time jobs wanting to afford a fulfilling life instead the Epstein-class who is stealing everyone’s money to fuel their disgusting lifestyles? Why is your response to being stolen from, “just work harder so you have enough money after the theft”?

My point is that you make it seem like being unable to afford nice things is mostly a result of personal choices. In reality, the reason people struggle to afford nice things is because rich people are picking our pockets. The solution here is not to join the ranks of the fat cats, but instead to stop the absurd levels of thievery they are doing. This is not a personal problem that can be solved with personal responsibility, but a systemic problem that requires a systemic solution.

If you need an easily comparable situation, I think it is important for people to recycle and limit their waste production. No matter how conscientious I am, Elon Musk is going to overpollute our planet on the scale of a small country with the broad approval of our government. This is also a problem that requires a systemic solution because Elon Musk is only capable of creating so much pollution since he is supported by the systems our government runs on.

In the 80’s, a man could afford to raise a secret second family on his factory job while both of his wives stayed home raising 2.5 kids. Humanity has become waaaaay more productive since that time, yet dual income households can barely raise one child, if they are lucky. It’s not that people have become lazier or anything; we’re making more but recieving less for our labor. The people in charge have been siphoning more and more of the wealth we create while telling us the reason we can’t afford nice things is because of bad decisions we make. Places like Walmart claim prices go up because of inventory theft, yet they keep hitting record breaking profits because the wage theft they engage in brings in way more money than they lose from inventory theft. It sure seems like these fat cats are forcing us to pay for their immoral decisions at the cost of us being able to afford nice things.

AI isn’t real, but it’s gonna ruin society anyway. There is absolutely zero possibility for genAI to develop intelligence because it’s just a probablistic chatbot. It doesn’t know anything; it’s just rolling dice to guess what word to spit out each time. A high school student who copies his friend’s calculus homework will eventually learn a little calculus. A chatbot will never learn any calculus. Claiming these genAI models will develop intelligence with better compute technology is like claiming a puppet will develop intelligence with better string technology.