This has been said before but please understand that the trillion dollar problem AI was invented to “solve” is wages. Corporates are using the AI scare to depress wages. It doesn’t have to work right or be productive to reduce workers bargaining power for higher wages. The threat of job loss will keep people silent on poor working conditions and poor pay packets. It is a win win for corporations.
Slavery is the goal. It always has been. You all have no idea how close to slavery we are. How close we’ve always been. Yes, this whole time. They have believed for one hundred years that the slave economy was the best one and have been constantly trying to get it back. They are so close.
A lot of Americans have never seen these oppressors sacrifice their own money to keep a group in their place. They’re not used to it. It doesn’t make sense. Please read some Black American history. If you want a shortcut to the gist, go read Louisiana history. Please believe they will salt a good amount of their own earth if it means you never have real freedom. You all have no idea how nasty it can get.
Those detained immigrants and citizens will not be deported, they will be rented to corporations for pennies; enslaved.
The remaining workers here will be scared into accepting less because the alternative is destitution.
So many people thought we were exaggerating before. But without actual prison reform, the door was left wide open for them to extend that hurt you the rest of us. Everything is always a slippery slope back to slavery. I would love it if people stopped acting like it was an absurd possibility. The way slavery persists and shapeshifts is dangerous. There has never been a point in modern history where it didn’t exist somewhere/right tf here. Currently human trafficking is affecting us in ways a lot of ys cannot fathom. Many of us, mainly women and children are missing. I’m not asking you to run around with your hair on fire. Just—treat it like the threat it is.