cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1261690/a-majority-of-americans-now-support-seizing-wealth-from-ai-industry
While 89% back mandatory safety disclosures, nearly 70% support requiring AI firms to transfer 50% of their stock to a public fund
It doesn’t have wealth. It has debt.
Add to social security so we can retire earlier than 120.
Fuck this.
Fuck. This.
The last thing I want is forcing my money into an OpenAI/Anthropic investment at the peak of their bubble. Don’t listen to any of this, its all part of the con, to keep their scheme going and leave the public holding the bag.
Make them pay proper taxes and force this race to burn money (to “win” at AI and take it all, supposedly) at everyone else’s expense into the league of millions, not billions.
Transferring half of Grok to a public wealth fund will just create a government-powered incentive to keep developing Grok until it’s actually profitable for Elon Musk.
Look if we start taking money back from obvious scams that are ripping us off, where do we stop? Vulture Capitalist firms? BlackRock? All landlords?
Hey now, don’t threaten me with a good time!
Vulture Capitalist firms? BlackRock? All landlords?
Go on…
ISPs, Pharmaceuticals, hospitals, railways…
That’s the neat part, we don’t!
Like that money is actually going to end up in the pockets of average Americans.
When Big Oil came to fuck Alaska they did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund it ain’t much, but it’s better than 0.
That was done by the State of Alaska, not the Federal government.
I imagine that even if something like this was established, I imagine that a huge chunk of each dollar would disappear into the bureaucracy.
Also, given the financial issues, it may not be the cash cow everyone thinks.
One aspect of capitalism that many people don’t get is that capital is only capital and not just money, because you can force people to work for you, that’s why UBI or paying people based on stock values will never be enough to get your average person out of wage slavery.
that’s why UBI … will never be enough to get your average person out of wage slavery.
Care to elaborate on that one?
