The AI Future

[usonian]

3. I have always seen technology as liberating, and it gave me a good career.

But money is power. Just as oil companies bought every solar company they could in the 60's and beyond, basically to shove it in the closet, don't think that big interests won't drain this one dry, and leave only scraps to the little guy.

It has made the job market absolutely impossible with chicanery on both sides of the HR door.

Every new thingy is opportunity for small players to make a small living. I did.

I USED the technology but did not play in the battlefield. I built home computers before there were home computers. If I tried to compete, anyone not named Apple, IBM (Lenovo) or Dell or a couple of others, isn't any more.

I worked for Sun Microsystems, and the mighty company was bought by Oracle and is living in Larry Ellison's basement, or ADU, I guess. Freakin awesome technology. It was. Larry just beat out Elon for the filthy richest person on the planet.

The wealthy are going to snuff out anything that challenges their 90% or more dominance rapidly, or make it irrelevant.

Look at the billion dollar deals and M&A going on daily.

Income inequality will change only when we change it politically.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/13244015

In short, a peaceful revolution.