• ATPA9@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    I still don’t understand their end goal. If everyone exept for them is poor and dying who are they going to sell their stuff to? What will they exploit the people for if they can sell nothing because only they can afford it? Are they banking on becomming the new china and sell everything to the rest of the world? Wouldn’t killing half of your population bite that plan in the ass as a fuck ton of manpower is gone? And if they want to use machines as a replacement wouldn’t removing all the smart people be extremely unhelpful?

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      It is not hard to understand if you think that money is just a number, practically is just used to obtain power and influence, and they’re using it for that. Once everyone is a slave, what do you need to sell

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      They goal is to get rich, they are mostly old, thinking I’m death in 10 years and fuck the next generations. If the country crashed, well then I can continue living in a Mansion in Dubai with an coctail in the hand. Plunder policy.

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      We’re moving towards an economy of low volume luxury good vs mass produced goods for the average person. Basically the floor will just keep rising until less and less people can afford things. The people who still can afford things will be getting nicer and more expensive stuff as time goes on.

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      It’s probable that they’re betting on technological innovation to bring about a post-scarcity economy where profit and capital are irrelevant. And relatively speaking, that could a good thing.

      The issue is instead of taking a reasonable utilitarian approach, these people would rather lean on things like:

      unmitigated greed

      racism

      a romanticization of historical imperialism

      the social construct within the Western capitalist mindset to incessantly seek new frontiers of exploitation

      and the insidious belief that other people don’t deserve to participate in such a society; either because of their beliefs or because of immutable characteristics that deem them unworthy or otherwise burdensome to the system.

      IMO, the tragedy is that while the rich want to bet on consolidating enough capital to shoot themselves out into space, the statistical likelihood that they will find anything within reach that even remotely resembles the beauty and habitability of our planet is very low. Too bad they will kill all of us first before realizing that.

      Something something, when we cut down the last tree and poison the last river…

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      I still don’t understand their end goal. If everyone exept for them is poor and dying who are they going to sell their stuff to?

      I’m increasingly believing that they don’t actually care about anyone other then themselves.

      Their only goals are self-serving greed.

      And the methods they intend to use to serve that narrow goal are extremely short sighted and lacking any peripheral vision.