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I saw this post on reddit.

Figure had a livestream of their robots sorting packages 24/7 for 8 days straight. These aren't staged demos anymore.
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I can see why you’re so into robotics and AI. I can, I really can. As an IT professional myself, I use AI regularly. Not really into robotics, though. I mean, you’ve got reduced cost, reduced labor expenses, reduced accidents, just basically reduced costs across the board.

Somebody once said, “By 2030, you’ll own nothing and be happy.”

But, and I agree, it’s a little bit hyperbolic, that means that we’re gonna have UBI, or Universal Basic Income.

What this means is that we’re gonna start to see a unionization effort, spring up out of nowhere. And, I mean, nowhere. One day, you’ll be happy, playing along with all your neat little robots, and wondering how to build the next model of your AI. And the next, you’re gonna see a huge, and I mean huge, unionizing effort, amongst Americans.

It won’t even compare with the largest unionizing effort. It should dwarf that by a factor of 10? 20, I’m guessing?

And their demands will be simple… Give us jobs or increase our UBI. And this won’t be a measly few hundred dollars. We’re talking thousands of dollars for each and every employee that has been put on the bread line.

As it currently stands, I understand that companies get UBI. It’s what saved the banks, in 2008. It’s what saved several airlines from going out of business. It’s what saved each and every one of your asses. The American taxpayer.

So, I hope you’re ready, because you’re right. Change is coming. I just hope that you’re prepared for what comes next, after you get through playing with all your toys.

Because once you push people too far, their only option left to us is unionizing. If not for the sake of one particular job sector, then for the good of humanity.

On the subject of pyrrhic victories, I just wanted to explain to you what a pyrrhic victory looks like. We’re all living through a pyrrhic victory now, with the Trump regime. Trump has won.

Why do you think I’m such a big fan of The Civil Rights Lawyer channel? Lackluster?

I mean, let’s just see what the executive branch of our, yours and mine, government is up to.

If you think this is an isolated case, you’re incorrect. Maybe the circumstances are isolated, but the egregious wanton disregard for our rights isn’t.

I’ve got the solution to these AI issues and power.

Make them start building green energy plants, ones that are more than large enough to handle the data center at full load. Plug it into the grid.

Making power isn’t cheap, nor is it easy. This says that it would cost them around 2-3 billion dollars. Make it retroactive. Fuck, I don’t give a shit. As soon as some of these rich fucks start seeing chinks in their armor, this shit will slow down tremendously.

And thanks for the free power!

When I take a look at other countries, Canada, Germany, Japan even… And I take a look at their constitutions, they all have bookends on them.

Then when I take a look at our country, USA, it’s just a hodgepodge mess of white men, trying their best and putting together a 3/4 completed document.

Take the Freedom of Religion. Doesn’t this deserve to have a bookend on it?

Let’s quote the first Amendment :

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Don’t you think that there should be another Amendment, stating that “Congress shall make no law based upon religion.” A bookend, perhaps?

Hell, it would solidify the first Amendment.

“We don’t care what you believe, but don’t come here and try and justify yourself just because Allah, or Buddah, or God tells you that it’s so.”

This has been stress tested so fucking hard, as of late. We are on the verge of having another crusade into Greenland. We’ve already crusaded into Venezuela.

I mean, everybody that thinks that the founding fathers were geniuses, y’all are correct. But not as much of geniuses who wrote the 2nd and 3rd and subsequent drafts. Ya know, people who had generational knowledge? People who said, “Yah, but…” on the smaller things?

I mean, I am feeling more holy than any of these “Christian Nationalists”. And I’m an atheist. We are now living in a society whereby the people who don’t believe that god has any place in our common good, is now more holy than the people that do believe in god.

That’s how far down the rabbit hole some of these people have gone. There are people that will believe whatever crackpot theory about god is out there, all because it “sounds” true.

Talk about disgusting.

They should be fired, number one.

Number two, we have wrapped ourselves in so much “cApItAlISm”, that we now believe the “FrEe MaRkEt WiLl SaVe Us AlL!@@!#!”

That, in and of itself, has wrapped itself in conservatism.

And this belief, has wrapped our entire nation.

Sleep tight.