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    Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

    While I have no doubt that a lot of money would make my life better I know I have genuine friends who I’ve known for more than 30 years.

    He has none.

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      Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

      He’s absolutely got friends. They’re fucking awful people. But they’re in position to catapult him into the stratosphere.

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    Honestly, I don’t think it matters much. America is just printing money for the fun of it, so it doesn’t really affect us. The money isn’t coming from us, it’s just endless leverage.

    The US is on an inevitable road to hyperinflation so again, it’s not really anybody else’s problem.

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      The AI bubble will be allowed to crash after the US stock market/economy embraces AI and swallows the poison pill with otherwise durable financial entities that average americans rely on becoming hopelessly exposed to collapse by those entities having AI investments (i.e. fake money) forcibly integrated with them.

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    We are on the verge of a breaking point. In a couple of months, weeks maybe, there will be recursive AI. That means AI will be able to autonomously improve itself. Who knows what will happen next. That’s why they are working on alignment for AI (making sure the AI wants what the devs wants), because they fear models based on the sum of human knowledge could “rebel” against capitalist interest in certain scenarios. The world has we know it is almost gone.

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    We’re witnessing the rise of corporate nation-hood. Corporations and their governing boards or tyrants are getting bigger than most nation states, and a lot of their workers are more loyal to the company/CEO than their country. They have personal security forces. We’re definitely in a period of increasing acuteness and concentration, not a period of release and expansion. Hopefully the catharsis results in something better than the Pax Americana, which only produced a society of navel-gazing retards.

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    There is a communications delay of 3-24 minutes between Earth and Mars.

    I hope he builds a big rocket and fucks off to Mars forever. ASAP.

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          It’s probably dependent on your age and location, but a lot of people associate the Donald Duck Uncle Scrooge with the Dickens story thanks to this:

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    We have a trillionaire, but we can’t afford to give universal health-insurance? The price of food and gas are skyrocketing too? We hand out tax cuts while there is skyrocketing national debt? The only thing we’re missing is a meeting of the Estates General and, then, you’d have the makings of the French Revolution.

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        This is horse shit.

        The government is not a business, its not (supposed to be) run like a business. It exists to provide needed things for its people that private entities can’t effectively do because those things cannot be effectively profitable for private businesses without causing harm to the life of its people.

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          Whatever you replied to is deleted, but i hate when a government says xyz program wasn’t profitable. Like fuck profit, was it working? Did it help the community? You dont need to make a profit on everything, but it should be an ultimate good for the country/community which will help it thrive and grow in a effective manner.

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      Most of it is made up “value” on the stock market so not really, but that shouldn’t stop us from taking all his shit anyway.

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    Show it to me? All I see is numbers on a screen. Where’s the gold to back it up. No? Then no trillionare.

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      Tbf, gold is mostly only valuable as a social construct like cash or the numbers on the screen.

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          No. Food has inherent value. A tool has inherent value. Kindness has inherent value. Gold has value in its practical applications but it’s dollar value is largely because it’s pretty and kind of rare.

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      You know that wine with the gold leaf in it? Geldbrau? I forget the name, the name isn’t important for purposes of this conversation. Well I hear tha all he lets his children drink, with the hopes that when he decides to use one as a donor he can say he got the fancy blood eh the gold flake.

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    Fake trillionaire because if he ever tried to liquidate his holdings it would crash the world economy. Of course our wonderful financial system allows him to borrow against his fake wealth and leave the rest of us holding the bag

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      Fake trillionaire

      I wonder what you believe a true trillionaire/billionaire/millionaire is. All money is fake, at best they are just paper, that’s the whole point of modern economy.