Once again, mad max movies predict the future

I feel like some people in this thread are overlooking the tongue in cheek nature of this humour post and taking it weirdly personally

I actually stopped my subscription to Wired recently because the damn site never recognises me and login does not seem to support autofill or biometrics. Really pissed me off.

Anyway, the gist of this article is the companies are spending money on building AI and sacking people to save that money

Did Jesus also commit adultery with a porn star, use campaign funds to hush it up and then lie about it?

Or does the analogy not carry that far?

I kinda love how mad you are about this

The economy is no longer a measure of prosperity for regular people (if it ever was) It just indicates the rate at which mega-rich people are able to become richer.

Yeah, no shit

I know, I snorted at that. Oh, shit we’re losing money because we pursued endless growth instead of the UX for customers….quick, uhhh….AI!

I worked a job once where the manager instigated an ice breaking exercise.. you know the sort of thing… tell me two truths about yourself and one lie.

One of his truths was that “he once licked sweat of Gary glitter’s chest.”

I kind of bet he regrets that disclosure, now.

But are they also hip and rad?

As other people have pointed out, big companies target an area and set about establishing a monopoly using $$$

Then they realise “huh. There’s not so much profit here in Assfuck, Montana after all.” And make some lame excuse (theft) to pull out.

Citizens get fucked because : capitalism.

It’s funny how the solutions for the failures of capitalism often end up looking just like socialism