Worse, we are becoming a burden.
replyThe Thiels of the world are already past wanting an obedient consumer.
They don't need us for the utopia they imagine for themselves.
It was a terrible scattered movie, but they want Elysium.
replyNo, Elysium still had all the desperate poor people. That's not the end goal.
replyThey want to scan your soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v5HLLkgo5A
replyThey want the future setting of Unanimity in Cloud Atlas. Even that might be too much of an underclass.
replyCan even go to the bodega on foot anonymously, too many of my neighbors have ring cameras pointed at the street.
replyFlock is being rejected in a number of cities, thanks to citizens.
replyI am quite confident that there will eventually in any of those cities be some kind of major mass casualty type event that will be attributed to that rejection. I don’t hope for it and am sorry for all of humanity for what we are allowing to seemingly inevitably come about, but here we are; like cattle being herded to the feed lot. “But they’re saying they’ll feed you”, you will hear, “they don’t mean you ill. You should stop being a conspiracy theorists. This food is good.”
replyWe’ll see how it goes, but we also have suits like this that push back on that narrative as if you’re going to say your tech protects against a certain kind of tragedy, and that tragedy actually happens and you didn’t protect against it, maybe you bear some liability.
replyhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/school-shooting-...
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replyEvery step of the way enabled by useful idiots who think that because each incremental step applies more/cheaper government violence to some class of petty deviants they don't like that it is worth doing even if the overall trajectory created by the sum total of the steps is bad. Selfish jerks.
reply> We should also abolish cash while we're at it.
replyWhy do you think all the rich people (and by extension the oligarchy running this country) are pushing Crypto?
I don’t think pointing that out will get very far. People didn’t notice when “democracy” was pushed by the same people, in direct contradiction to the Constitution. “Democracy” was the lynchpin to neutralize the Constitution and usher in oligarchic control again, just like digital/programmable currency will complete the pivot of slavery into a total and global system. Why only enslave a few people when you can enslave all people with smoke and mirrors that will make them cheer on their own deception with amusement.
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