• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Imagine how improved things would be if that $700 billion was spent improving the lives of regular people. Or, what if it was just used to pay the debt through taxes? Medicare for all? They clearly had the money to sqander.

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        2 hours ago

        There enlies a great response to people who insist we cannot resist progress (AI) and it’s totally inevitable. If they believe in that progress so much, they can choose from any previous innovation that didn’t bring the thing they say AI will bring.

        • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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          7 hours ago

          And rolling back things like marital rape laws. And perhaps we were a little hasty allowing women to have their own checking accounts (IN 1974). Etc…

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          7 hours ago

          To then discover people are so glued to their phone filled to the brim with anger inducing engagement, they don’t have any energy left over to meet people or even do the deed.