Votes don’t equate to real power. Huge amounts of money and resources, like we see everyday in the news, are what move the needle. The only counter to that is mobilized political outrage. Overwhelming numbers of people making the economy sputter until demands are met. Otherwise, we can expect more of what we have now.
But yeah, a higher min wage is a good step forward.
Since no one believes in unions and they’ve been legislatively kneecapped, social pressure to pay them tends to fall on the consumer. It’s not ideal, but such is the economy we live in.
Have you tried blaming someone with power?
Doing well? They’re getting by like the rest of us. Why would they do that job if they weren’t being paid for it?
A lot of people in the comments are remarking on the tip culture in America. Friendly reminder that it’s not the culture that necessitates tipping here. We have a tipping economy when it comes to a lot of service work. $2.13 is the minimum wage for servers in the states. This is less than what could rightfully be called a starvation wage, so tipping is a social necessity. You might think that’s crazy and we should change it, and you would be correct.
Oh cool, sounds lovely.
They’re not irreconcilable when you read them, lol. I’m saying you have a choice between two options, but one is guaranteed not to work (trying to get rid of AI).
I don’t know how to seize AI, but I imagine you’d have to break the law to some extent. Maybe get comfortable with that, for starters.
If you want to try to get rid of it, I can’t stop you. I’m unaware of an example of that ever working, though. I think it’s better to seize that tech from the people who would likely use it to make people’s lives worse.
One of the biggest misconceptions is that internet discussion is political action.
Wish in one hand…
American justice isn’t a guarantee, and until political action comes back into style we can’t expect good outcomes.
None of those things were new technology. The assembly line didn’t go away when people were angry about being laid off.
If you’re talking about a specific product of AI (“art” for example), you might want to make that clearer. If you’re talking about AI in general, you’re treating this one thing like it’s a reason to try turning back the clock.
The rational thing to do would be getting politically involved to get AI out of corporate ownership.
I used mainstream sm forever, but there came a breaking point for my mental health. Those platforms are made to keep people glued to them and I got tired of the dependency and the lost of focus/memory.
His support for invading Iraq was pretty bad.
😂😂😂 This is sleight of hand, yall. Don’t follow any of this.
Is this meant to suggest that reactionaries aren’t work-shy as hell? That would be a lie. They all want some bullshit media career as much as any liberal.
Is “dying” the right word? They’re struggling, but I won’t be surprised if this administration or the next bails Meta out, since fb and insta are essentially public services for a lot of people, as much as I hate that. The smart thing for the fed government to do is to nationalize Meta’s platforms.
Am I supposed to be mad about this? The only jobs available to most of them basically constitute slavery.
So sick of hearing about CK. How could anyone listen to him? He was always talking out the side of his neck.
Ol’ one-titty Yumi.