I see you are totally correct and not moving the goal post at all. Per capita suddenly matters when you just said the number of billionaires in China is decreasing over time, which does not totally contradict what you just mentioned. Very astute analysis and a chef’s kiss debating skills from you 👍🤛👌🤌 big brain moment 🧠

As for socialism, it’s a system where the working classes control the state and public ownership is the principal aspect of the economy.

If the worker controls the state, according to you, then if the state controls the economy, according to you, then nationalisation?

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Oh okay, sounds like everyone there is paranoid that their loved ones are secretly capitalists. Must have explained why from 285 billionaires in 2019, an additional 800 or so more billionaires have sprung up in China just last year. Did they eat the rich after finding out their neighbours and loved ones are capitalists, and then shat them out to produce 800 more billionaires? It sounds counterintuitive for a worker owned, socialist StAtE.

Ah yes, I’m sure the Chinese working class who totally own the state love to use AI and technology to spy on themselves.

Gotcha, if capitalist countries already spy on their own citizens through technology and AI, then I am certain China won’t be doing the same since they are on the opposite political spectrum.

I don’t condone, but I understand.

The state is not outside class struggle, it’s a product of it and serves a definite class.

Ironic.

The ml has a reputation of not being tolerant.

Most people would not have known about what Zuck in the earlier years of Facebook. Heck, even to this day, either most people still don’t know or don’t care. Facebook is still extremely popular in developing countries because the site is free regardless of whether or not you have a mobile internet data. But they don’t realise they are being manipulated by the social media to give them free information and to vote a certain way in elections that is against their own interest.

The cameras on poles are meant for public spaces and security. Meta glasses are for whatever the fuck the wearer will intend the recordings for for private use.

Hindsight is 20/20 but only few, if any, expected how big of a giant piece of shit Facebook will become and especially its founder. Most people thought it is just another fad, and expected it will go the way of most other social media sites at the time such as Friendster, Bebo and MySpace.

*still gets beaten up

the USA goverment will.

Are you telling me that the US government outsourcing surveillance and insider trading with tech oligarchs, isn’t already?

Presumably, the bill will mean reining the potential harm of AI. Also, this means the American people will get direct dividends. A first step towards universal basic income. It’s not different to Alaskans getting dividends from oil revenues in their state.

Exactly. One would think that .ml will like the idea of owning at least 50% of AI companies. It’s funny that none on the left haven’t applied, let alone evolve, Marxist ideas to try to own AI. If workplaces should be owned by workers because labour is what fuels workplace, then if knowledge from everyone is what drives AI, it is only logical that the people should also own AI.

They’re playing god.

Why the hell not? AI companies wantonly stole our data after all. I seriously think that we should update Marxist theories with respect to AI and knowledge economy. The old Marxist theory on labour is becoming obsolete in the face of deindustrialisation, the boom and bust of knowledge economy, and the coming age of AI.

It’s escapism versus reality. I didn’t think The Matrix is far more nuanced than I initially realised.

Poor Finland, stuck between a rock and a hard place this time.

My opinion is that social media algorithm polarised and poisoned everyone’s minds. We have become corralled into our own different sets of reality. So, we only see what we want to see and not see what others see.

If you collect and learn all languages that ever existed, then perhaps you would gain a better understanding of the world. I’m not a linguist, but I am fascinated with the fact that languages each have their own unique quirks and words untranslatable to another language. These quirks and words which are only unique to a language reflects the value of the culture speaking that language. For example, Austronesian languages are gender neutral. There is no “he” or “she” pronouns. That reflects the largely gender egalitarian value of Austronesians. The Japanese have another word for a shade of blue, which most other people won’t easily recognise except the Japanese. Some African greetings say “I see you”, which is not only a salutation, but is recognising the person being greeted as an individual.