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DJ Synikus Makisimus

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1. Oligarchs think we don't need workers now that there's AI.
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 07:51 PM
Feb 12

The function of technology has always been to replace human skill, strength, knowledge and initiative with machines. Machines don't complain, go on strike, demand weekends off, demand lunch breaks, take sick time, etc. Software is just another machine without form.

The ultimate goal, it appears, is a society for the tiny elite that receives all the benefits of the wealth this technology produces, while the rest starve. The logical result, however, will be endless corporate wars where oligarchs line us up as soldiers to fight other unemployed schmucks to further the oligarchs' insatiable greed. It will likely be the only "employment" available if they have their way.

And MAGAts live in fealty to the oligarchs. "The rich are rich because they're smarter and better than us," they think. "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich" is another line they like to throw around. At least until they feel it personally, then they cry.

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