My concept of utopia is a world without billionaires
Elon Musk predicted that AI and robots would eventually allow work to become optional for human beings, that money would become “irrelevant” and poverty would cease to exist.
I mean first off, we’ll need “AI” to actually mean something other than marketing bullshit. Actual AI (what’s being called ‘AGI’ nowadays, but that’ll be bastardized the same way ‘AI’ was) doesn’t exist outside of science fiction. If that day ever comes (my money’s on humans being extinct before we get there), then yeah that’s gonna be a humanity changer in par with discovering fire or electricity.
Second, we’ll need the folks who run that tech to actually be benevolent, and the odds of a billionaire becoming benevolent are even lower than real AI becoming a reality.
Third, poverty could cease to exist RIGHT NOW if people like Elon Musk got the guillotine treatment they deserve. No AI necessary.
Third, poverty could cease to exist RIGHT NOW if people like Elon Musk got the guillotine treatment they deserve
Never forget that elmo ran his mouth about using his money to solve world hunger, and when the UN organization in charge of hunger came back with a detailed plan… nothing. Poof. The little shit tucked tail and ran.
Oh no we’re never forgetting that, or the fact that shortly after he used even MORE money than what the UN proposed to buy Twitter instead
Can we please stop paying attention to what this Nazi saluting man baby is saying?
Does that mean healthcare, housing and nutrition will all become basic human rights as well?
They have been selling us the promise of leisurely utopia since the industrial revolution. The only way we get shorter work weeks is by sacrificing capitalists
Elon musk: The empty promises nazi.
Elon, you have the capacity to end world hunger, fix all American schooling problems, and dozens of other things, and still be a billionaire. If you were capable of even the slightest hint of empathy, you could create a near-utopia tomorrow.
None of our billionaires are seeking a Star Trek, united federation of planets (countries) utopia, where money is obsolete.
They’re all looking more towards the empire dystopia of Star Wars.
Their version of Utopia is more like the movie Elysium. A separate paradise for them, the Dregs for the rest of humanity.
That, too.
Infuriatingly, dystopian science fiction is supposed to be warnings about the excesses of capitalist feudalism, except techbros start to use those as goddamn instruction books.
Somehow they imagine themselves the hero, but they’re the contributors to the dystopia they create. Like the evil dictators that somehow can’t understand how twisted the world is they created.
How is that a bad thing? It’s exactly what we all should be working towards.
It’s not, he’s just lying to coax more investment
Sounds pretty good to me, too
If done right and well, it most certainly could. But we aren’t doing either.
It’s the old tech shill’s shell game.
“This is what we could have!” (Note: could have. Not what they’re working toward.)
Television was once hailed as a boon for education. How long did that last?
The Internet was once hailed as a means of learning about each other. Now it’s a source of ever-increasing vociferous division.
All of this is purest fantasy because the people pitching it are shit humans who don’t want the future they sell to us.
In the heart of the empire, same as it ever was. I mbin “boosted” your comment, because it’s the same old pipe dream they’ve always sold us that we keep buying, with just enough “good” hits to keep us coming back, as I elsewhere.
What? Are you seriously gonna say that television and Internet weren’t a massive boon for society regarding education/knowledge sharing and social exchange? You’ve such a negative outlook on life if you honestly believe that.
I remember when people would tell you things and you just had to say OK cause your only refute was to hop on over to the library and find a book as a source.
And pre-Internet, when would you ever communicate with someone outside of your little town? Sure sign up for a penpal or some shit like that, but the ability for me where I am on the shitter to write this comment to you is INSANE in the broad spectrum of the human race.
Stop being such a doomer
Yes, I’m going to say that television and the Internet weren’t a massive boon for society.
Television (and streaming video later on) when it started off perhaps had potential to change things for the better. Now look at it. “Reality” shows, politically divisive opinion pieces masquerading as news, and in general just a pile of crud until you get into the individual paid channels … which benefit only those who can afford the increasingly expensive fees.
Benefitting the rich? Yeah, that’s new and unexplored territory for sure!
As for the Internet, again, when it was first unleashed on the public it was a GREAT place. Now it’s one walled garden after another with the only real concern the delivery of ads as often and as plentiful as possible. Its potential has been wasted. But hey, at least the warp speed spread of disinformation that it enables with such panache didn’t result in the ever-accelerating failure of democracies around the world!
People like this are described by Charles Dickens … rich, wealthy, entitled aholes that talk about “The surplus population”
So you want a world without money Felon? Ok, start handing it out.
Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism when ??
More like Elysium…
