Because this seems to be almost like an argument about why people need to die needlessly because of lack of healthcare insurance because private health insurance employs some people in jobs.
I remember every politician that has essentially said: Some of you have to die prematurely of undiagnosed treatable cancer because we can’t have universal healthcare or even a public option because private health insurance provides jobs. And holy shit, Democratic Party candidates are still waffling on this and think they’re very clever.
This is really quite real to me because I live in northeastern Pennsylvania, NEPA if you live here, Pennsyltucky if you discount us all in Appalachia. So I spent 5 years after the Great Recession uninsured and unable to see doctors. Literally specialists refused to see me on the basis that I was uninsured, even after my husband offered to pay cash up front. And now they’re planning various AI and crypto data centers in my region, and I can’t even find out if my trickle down economics lie adherent Democrat elected representatives have signed nondisclosure agreements with the tech industry developers.
I’m really angry about all this. And I’ve spent my whole adult life politically angry.
If the AI is a bubble, and I’m just as convinced as Ed Zitron that it is, then threatening that not keeping it going is going to crash The Economy, so that I need to eat this too. I’ve had it. I’m done with politicians who continually try to tell us that basically we need to worship like a false god. And the idea that I should just start sucking it up in anticipation of eating the next rug pull is a bridge too far.
This is some bullshit and any politician who is not campaigning vigorously against AI slop, against data centers, against cryptocurrency is proving that they intend to continue to treat ordinary people like me like shit on their shoes.