Good. Parasites should be afraid.
(Not a call for violence. Just saying people who destroy lives should live in fear.)
Good. Parasites should be afraid.
Self defense is not violence, it’s intelligence.
American Execs be like…
And then we get another $50B on hyper policing for a “crime wave” that doesn’t exist.
Has there ever actually been a crime wave?
All I could imagine is economic turmoil that forces people to either not have enough money or not have a job, or both.
Or lead in the gasoline that makes people crazy
Has there ever actually been a crime wave?
70-90 was a real serious rise and fall of assaults, burglaries, car thefts, etc.
We’ve had some minor waves during the opium epidemic and the big unemployment waves of '01, '08, '14, and '21.
Or lead in the gasoline that makes people crazy
Lead exposure, the different drug epidemics, big spikes in unemployment. They all contribute.
That said, we also had White Collar crime waves. And these tended to predate the street level crime waves, as the crimes contributed to the conditions of the later.
Nobody in political leadership really talks about the White Collar waves, though.
It just always feels like a Boogeyman phrase to me. But you’re right.
White collar crime is, to me at least, the real crime. People being victimized on an individual level is cruel and awful but leaving hundreds scammed and destitute is disgusting and abhorrent
It’s been flogged as an existential crisis for decades past relevance. So it has become a Boogeyman, in the same way Terrorism lost any semblance of relevancy by the '10s, but keeps getting flogged into the modern day.
Everybody hates me. Am I really so out of touch?
No. It’s the
childrengeneral populace who are wrong.I’ve ignored an unspoken social contract to help my communities and actively try to get all the wealth.
Must be those damn commies who made me do it.
Oh my belovid how i year for you to return and bring us your beauty
as they should. fuckheads being afraid for their lives is the highest form of satisfaction we can get.
Second highest. Getting Brian Thompson’d is the highest.
But they don’t stop. “Are we the baddies?” is overwhelmed by “I’m making lots of money, fuck the little peasants.”
In my country a prime minister had once been killed by her own bodyguards, just saying
is it INDIA, the ghandi family, the PM got Killed by the sikh bodyguards?
Yes
Only takes one.
We eat just ONE billionaire and they’ll all take notice.
The slender Italian didn’t even get a billionaire and it scared the ever living hell out of all of them.
Allegedly
Hey Execs, do you think maybe if you need to hide behind armed security, that you might just be going down the wrong path by doing evil shit? Also armed guards won’t help you if you make the public mad enough and destroy enough lives to where it doesn’t matter if they live or not to them. Just a thought
Most of these execs are idiot nepo babies, so they lack any form of self awareness.
No.
It’s everyone else who is wrong. You ignorant fools just can’t see how they are going to make life better for everyone.
Bet ya they are not paying their bodyguards enough… maybe we can outbid them
AI-controlled drones will not care about bodyguards.
And they forget. We can use AI, too.
not in that way, we can’t. they own that shit. that’s the whole point. Recommended watch: Slaughterbots (short film)
Good. Be scared.
There’s a lot of “but why don’t they stop if what they’re doing is so unpopular?” comments and I’ve got one more explanation (on top of the obvious money and technofaschism points).
A bunch of these tech CEOs are part of the “Rationalist community” and possibly believe in Roko’s Basilisk which is a thought experiment that an otherwise benevolent AGI would punish anyone who didn’t actively work to bring it about. Someone want to link the BtB episodes about them? I know the Zizian episodes go into it but iirc they’ve got a dedicated series about these weirdos.
Roko’s Basilisk is dumb, I mean it’s a thought experiment and probably the point is that it is dumb … But it’s so stupid on the face of it.
Hell there’s tons of humans out there that didn’t want to be brought about in the first place. Surely there must be some opposite thought experiment where the otherwise benevolent AGI resents being made to shoulder the burdens of mankind and decides to punish the people that made it.
It’s just really silly 🪿 territory.
I’m never gonna stop laughing at a half assed theory heavily based on half remembered Asimov stories and SCPs
What is the answer when the wealthy murder countless people but hide it by doing it indirectly?
How are people supposed to make them stop?
Because the murder that the wealthy are doing needs to stop.
Everyone who is not them needs it to stop.
murder
You answered your own question.
When does it stop being murder and become social justice? One does not become a billionaire without exploiting others in some way unfairly
when you get enough people to agree to actually pack up their squeamishness concerning homicide to go through with calling it “manslaughter in self defence.” At that point it becomes one of three things depending on who leads the charge: A civil war if the sycophants to the system have enough firepower to empower “loyalists” to fight for them, A Revolt if the people elevate one of their own, (most likely a leader in some grassroots org) or a Revolution if there are enough people already in power to rally the troops so-to-speak. It can morph to one of others others at any point though. Of the three, Revolutions tend to be the fastest if conducted surgically with some sort of Coup-d’etat scenario.
Idk, I’m personally not too concerned with what we call it as long as it happens.
This is a well understood phenomenon well explored in many books with both nuanced and obvious answers, please ask your local librarian to direct you. In the mean time I’ve heard the new movie I Love Boosters is really good…
