AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear -- Bernie Sanders WSJ OpEd

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9. I grew up listening to Alan Watts on college radio stations. And in the 60's? No wonder I'm so radical.

David Loy talks about money being a symbol, a means, and that people take the means to be an end, and since somebody will always have more, not must money, but" Money, Sex, War and Karma", a great read, subtitled "Notes for a Buddhist Revolution" , then their symbolic appetites can never be fulfilled.

Meanwhile, deregulation and regressive taxes mean that wealth concentrates massively into the hands of fewer and fewer people.

Arguably, whatever causes a more even distribution of wealth (TO ITS CREATORS AND CONSUMERS) makes for a better world. We are approaching a consumerless society, where all that's for sale is AI slop and useless infotainment.