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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by andrekandre on Saturday January 25, 2025 @06:46PM (#42826162) 

  > If you lock in wealth inequality at today's levels (or make them worse) and then use repressive means to prevent any form of push-back, the state becomes brittle.
well, not only the state, but how does capitalism survive that, who can buy anything (be a consumer) except for the essentials in that scenario, where do investments/growth go towards?
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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by ben_w on Saturday January 25, 2025 @07:05PM (#42826298)
It doesn't need to. We had oligarchs before capitalism.
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