You’re unemployed in 2025? Tough shit. But we’ll definitely give all the unemployed people of the future free money. Because of robots or something. We’re still working out the details.
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I think I would prefer to have a Wall-E
aug 25, 2025, 8:11 am • 1 0 • view
It will be in 2035, after we make a colony on mars in 2029, 2030 at the latest
aug 25, 2025, 5:48 am • 7 0 • view
Well someone has to be food.
aug 25, 2025, 11:33 am • 6 0 • view
aug 25, 2025, 2:03 pm • 3 0 • view
So everyone will be rich in 2 weeks or something?
aug 25, 2025, 9:20 am • 2 0 • view
It's like everyone forgot the lessons learned from the robot uprising of 2132.
aug 25, 2025, 6:39 am • 2 0 • view
Brought to you by: Trust us, bro.
aug 25, 2025, 12:51 pm • 14 1 • view
Elon didn't even want to pay Twitter employees severance, i'm not holding out for him being in favor of universal high income
aug 25, 2025, 5:54 am • 20 0 • view
Reminder: Nothing Muskratfucker has promised have ever come to fruition.
aug 25, 2025, 6:14 am • 4 0 • view
:: while rolling on pile of gold like Scrooge McDuck :: "Still working on it!"
aug 25, 2025, 7:15 am • 3 0 • view
You might have to queue for it on Mars.
aug 25, 2025, 5:48 am • 4 0 • view
Plan involves culling most of the world's population
aug 25, 2025, 6:51 am • 5 0 • view
It's not even saying he personally will give money to sustain all those people put out of work by robots. He is saying that somehow, magically, everyone will be rich once the robots are in charge.
aug 25, 2025, 6:08 am • 5 0 • view
Sounds sorta like Communism.
aug 25, 2025, 11:02 am • 1 0 • view
I find it interesting that Nvidia's CEO is approaching the futuristic promises of AI and robotics differently from Musk. Jensen Huang isn't promising free money and a leisure society. In fact, he's saying you'll probably be *busier* in the future.
aug 30, 2025, 12:10 am • 63 10 • view
Well yeah because everything’s gonna be bullshit so we’ll be spending all our time doing the work ourselves and convincing ceos that cost savings gimmick actually sucks
aug 30, 2025, 12:38 am • 2 0 • view
I think he means enslaved.
aug 30, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 12:33 am • 26 0 • view
That sounds terrible, and he should be imprisoned to protect us from his terrible plans.
aug 30, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view
That fucking sucks
aug 30, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
Jensen can eat all dick for his own special set of reasons
aug 30, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
Tech Bro dry humps Slavery and there was much rejoicing in the NYTs.
aug 30, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
Someone has to correct all the AI mistakes
aug 30, 2025, 12:17 am • 11 0 • view
I want the poorest to be able to afford food, shelter, and health care. If it can't do that, what's the point?
aug 30, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
Fucking save me from the “people will be more efficient and do more work as a result” tech overlord fantasies.
aug 30, 2025, 2:29 am • 1 0 • view
Busy correcting all of AI's mistakes.
aug 30, 2025, 12:13 am • 9 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
"After all their idle sophistry, there is, thank God! no means of adding to the wealth of a nation but by adding to the facilities of living: so that wealth is liberty – liberty to seek recreation – liberty to enjoy life – liberty to improve the mind: it is DISPOSABLE TIME, and nothing more."
aug 30, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
God. I’m gonna start smoking again. 🙄
aug 30, 2025, 12:16 am • 0 0 • view
we’ll be busy bc @edzitron.com will need so much help podding and writing about this if it spreads
aug 30, 2025, 12:12 am • 2 0 • view
Sam Altman pivoted hilariously when his privately-funded UBI study came back with the expected results (It's great! Do more!). He said, computation is what's valuable, and it's already a medium of exchange among AI companies, so instead of UBI we'll give people Universal Basic Compute!
aug 30, 2025, 12:20 am • 3 0 • view
Well, once they've done away with vaccines and affordable healthcare the population will be so much smaller, so there won't be so many unemployed people, right?
aug 25, 2025, 6:50 am • 11 0 • view
"But until that day comes, if you don't work you're a lazy burden on society who deserves to starve on the streets (but not any streets near where I live and work)"
aug 25, 2025, 9:21 am • 4 0 • view
It's a trap. These are people who refuse to pay for labor. Why would they pay for *no* labor?
aug 25, 2025, 5:48 am • 197 5 • view
I believe they will, but only when it will be impossible to maintain capitalism without UBI, and not a second early. Furthermore, UBI is the a non solution. The only leverage of the working class is to withheld labor.
aug 25, 2025, 10:22 am • 11 0 • view
UBI is a key solution because of the increased leverage it gives to all workers. jacobin.com/2015/12/erik...
aug 25, 2025, 1:02 pm • 20 2 • view
Exactly when they can't force us to remain employed to live they have to improve standards for their employees same reason they fight against universal healthcare
aug 25, 2025, 2:20 pm • 5 0 • view
UBI lets people withhold their wage slavery in exchange for letting them do with their labor as they choose.
aug 25, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
If this tool will be nullified there will be no real opposition to their rule. The real solution is to nationalize the robots
aug 25, 2025, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
Do you think the management class knows how to assemble, program, and repair the robots?
aug 25, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
You're living in the 19th century. Labor is less and less important in production and pretty soon there will be essentially no need for employees, only partners, independent contractors, etc. UBI is part of the solution. Merit based extended income programs are another part.
aug 25, 2025, 10:32 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe. But if there are no poor people, how will you know you are rich?
aug 25, 2025, 11:36 am • 0 0 • view
I don't care about the rich. My goal isn't to eliminate the rich, but to eliminate poverty, eliminate the need to struggle just to survive. If everyone's basic needs are met, then if some have more abundance then so be it.
aug 25, 2025, 11:38 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t mean for you. I meant that this is the only real incentive for Elon to keep peasants alive at all.
aug 25, 2025, 11:42 am • 1 0 • view
I disagree. If everyone has a basic foundation it doesn't eliminate the ability to say that someone else is rich. What eliminating poverty does is eliminate the excuse for government. It is not the "private sector" that needs poverty. It is the "public sector" that does.
aug 25, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
“There will be no need for employees, only partners, independent contractors” DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELF!!?!? I guess there will still be a need for employees, just not ones that you’ll pay benefits or pension. This is why every goddamn worker must unionize.
aug 25, 2025, 10:53 am • 12 2 • view
Real talk, they’re more likely to leave the working class to die once they believe that they have made us obsolete. Look at what’s already happening to coders now that AI is convincing enough to think it can do their job, even after decades of being the lifeblood of big tech.
aug 26, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view