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Re:The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy by KittenInABox on Monday October 16, 2023 @12:51PM (#37902647)
And yet, despite having less jobs and lower salaries, many countries of europe tend to have less signs of poverty: women are less likely to die in childbirth, there's less gun violence, less homeless and child hunger...
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Re:The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy by prosqlinjector on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:32PM (#37903281)
> women are less likely to die in childbirth

This one has been debunked many times. US healthcare attempts riskier births that would otherwise be aborted.

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Re:The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy by lalaithion on Monday October 16, 2023 @12:59PM (#37902782)
The US has half the homelessness rate of the UK or France. Childbirth is due to lack of universal health care and gun violence is due to the massive number of guns – not the tech economy.
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Re:The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy by kaashif on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:05PM (#37902886)
That might be right, but bear in mind the UK counts temporarily housed people (e.g. people couch surfing) as homeless, not just people literally on the streets. These stats may not be directly comparable.
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Re:The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy by dboreham on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:35PM (#37903331)
As someone who wanders around the US and UK a bit, they're definitely not comparable.
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Re:The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy by kuchenbecker on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:01PM (#37902823)
Those are orthogonal, or are you implying lack of VCs create those conditions?
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Re:The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy by mustafa_pasi on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:36PM (#37905167)
What I see is that the underclass in Europe is better taken care off than the underclass in the US. But the working and middle classes in America are richer and have more opportunities than their counterparts in Europe.

All of this, is completely orthogonal to whether or not private capital is willing to invest in risky ventures rather than hoard their capital in very secure incremental investments.

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