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highplainsdem

(60,102 posts) Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:40 PM Dec 11

Critic-journalist-screenwriter Jeff Ewing on the TIME cover

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Critic-journalist-screenwriter Jeff Ewing on the TIME cover (Original Post) highplainsdem Dec 11 OP

Well, I started to write a reply saying basically that, before I realized his comment was squeezed in at the top. eppur_se_muova Dec 11 #1

Tech bros burn up investment money and steal intellectual property. Robber barons who also con artists. highplainsdem Dec 11 #3

Offensive senseandsensibility Dec 11 #2

Spot on, though lostnfound Dec 12 #4

eppur_se_muova

(41,019 posts)

1. Well, I started to write a reply saying basically that, before I realized his comment was squeezed in at the top.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:55 PM

Dec 11

Blue collar workers burn up their health and their lives; tech bros burn up other people's investment money, including retirement funds.

highplainsdem

(60,102 posts)

3. Tech bros burn up investment money and steal intellectual property. Robber barons who also con artists.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 07:29 PM

Dec 11

senseandsensibility

(24,259 posts)

2. Offensive

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:58 PM

Dec 11

is right.

lostnfound

(17,415 posts)

4. Spot on, though

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Dec 12, 2025, 01:32 AM

Dec 12

There’s a new economy, being built, which feels awful and probably is absolutely devastating to the human condition for the next 20 years. Because all this power accumulated in the hands of megalomaniacs is finishing off what remained of our democracy.

It’s possible though that people living 40 years from now will harness a life style made lazy and rich by ubiquitous automation and AI. It is all a huge gamble, that no one voted on.

Human history has been full of things that were huge gambles, that no one voted on.

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