Always remember, folks…this kind of income inequality is a choice.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind
Submitted 3 weeks ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to workreform@lemmy.world
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Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We keep choosing to let it happen. I don’t understand people and the billionaire worship.
Dryad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“A Bug’s Life” was a pretty good movie.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Haven’t we already established that the middle class has joined the working class? There’s only two now.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 3 weeks ago
The use of the term “middle class” as “not poor” is relatively recent, and likely as a result of the efforts to divide the working class.
The working class is anyone who relies on wages for their survival. Middle class has meant several things, including the new and powerful class that led the French Revolution (middle between the aristocracy and peasants). In Marxism it refers to small business owners who are still beholden to large business owners, professionals (like, professions: doctor, lawyer, engineer) or middle managers. They either profit from the wage earners or earn a salary to oversee them.
Some people do not agree with the inclusion of middle management or professionals because they still depend on their wages (salary) to survive.
The idea that a unionized auto worked would be called middle class is silly, according to these older definitions.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Petite-bourgeoisie was a word before middle class
KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
In the UK we use middle class to mean something much closer to its Marxist definition. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, managers, and small business owners would generally be considered middle class (basically if you can afford to shop at M&S or Waitrose). The term middle class in the UK also can encompass people who should be included in the term upper/ruling class, such as CEOs, but due to our weird historic class system in the UK I think there is a higher threshold for being considered upper class here.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Thank GOD we took Taxpayer funds AWAY from Teachers so we can Give it to the ONE Man SPYING ON YOU SO ICE CAN MURDER YOUR CHILDREN instead! THIS is how we Make America Great!
-LITERALLY Every Republican you Know!
architect@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
No every Republican i know is more like:
Durrrrrrr have you seen commercial with dog? Black people run the Walmarts that’s why it’s bad hurrrrr
golinux@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
There is this very small number of these tech bros and CEOs who at least try to appear “normal” and “relatable” with various levels of success. This guy though is literally begging for somebody to meet him in a dark alley with a baseball bat.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Which tech bros attempt to appear normal? Lol
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, there are a whole lot of quiet ones. Normal? No.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
DandomRude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What he fails to mention, however, is that the product of the company of which he is CEO is by no means intended to protect a country’s citizens, but rather to prevent them from defending themselves against unscrupulous, anti-social monsters like him.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
I predict his ass will find out how well people eat cake once they have nothing to lose.
fodor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
What’s ironic is that he’s making a sales pitch for society outlawing his job. He’s telling us that he’s not worthy of being a member of our society as clearly as he can, but he doesn’t even realize it.
Because look if AI is going to make everyone’s life go to hell then all we need to do is change our governments and change the laws and get rid of those evil pieces of s*** who destroyed our society. In the end it really is that simple. Which doesn’t make it easy.
But actually it’s all a bubble so it’s not going to happen anyway.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Absolute psycho who has no business doing anything at all. Fuck you Karp.
Atropos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What a freaky fish guy.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In the future billionaires shouldn’t exist. Current billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to exist.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’s “sounding the alarm,” but not offering to do anything about it. Just sounds like someone who is having the earliest revelation that he doesn’t want to become dinner.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
And he’ll do anything to fix the situation, except stop getting richer. That’s non negotiable.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“bummer guys, it really is terrible, right? 🤷🏼♂️”
VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I mean… he’s not wrong… just an asshole.
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
That was his and all the other surveillance state bros' plan.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This tracks. I fish and a Karp is a bottom feeder.
kandoh@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
These guys see a bad economy as desirable. They want 10% unemployment and 0% interest rates.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unless he dies. Then his money isn’t worth a damn, at least to him
green_goglin@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Narrator: “He died penniless”
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Won’t someone please think of and defend the innocent billionaire?
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
As long as I have enough money to buy ammo, it’ll all work itself out in the end.
FE80@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Taika Waititi should play the next Bond villain.
newton@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
There 4.000.000.000.000 people to Mutch on this planet , now choose ?
switcheroo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How much do you need you sick ass parasite???
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
What he needs is to be in prison.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Enough to fill the black void in his soul.
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He doesn’t need it; but enough is never enough