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patphil

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3. The answer to the question is that we the people don't need all these data centers.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 12:23 AM
Yesterday

The super rich, the big corporations; al those people who see themselves as superior to the rest of us are using them as a means of solidifying their control over every aspect of our lives. They won't be happy until they can use our personal information to force us to conform to whatever role in life is left over after AI takes all the jobs it can take.
There won't be a thing they don't know about you. If they decide, you can be disconnected from any part of life they want to take from you.
Personal freedom will cease to exist.
I know this sounds Orwellian, but this is the wet dream of people like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other super rich folks that can't ever have enough, regardless of how much the have. They won't be happy even when they have it all and start to cannibalize each other.
Eventually, there will be a ruling elite, an overseer class that enforces the rules the elite make, and a large lower class that does what they're told if they want to live. Even governments will only exist at their whim.

This is their dream, we can't let it become our nightmare.

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