The most honest thing you can say about violence is that nobody wants it, but the conditions that produce it are being engineered with extraordinary efficiency by people who have apparently never opened a history book.

  • megopie@beehaw.org
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    15 hours ago

    at a certain point all you can do is laugh. Like, there is so much being left on the table, so many legitimately useful applications, but they only seem to care about chat bots and robots, because their conception of useful and powerful isn’t a better product, but how they can substitute capital expenditure for labor.

    Managing people is hard, developing new products is hard, implementing new technology is hard. Selling vapor wear to other business? Easy. Taking in a bunch of investment on outlandish promises and then selling the company before you have to deliver? Easy. Making usage numbers go up by forcing something infront of users? Easy.