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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by samrus on Saturday February 07, 2026 @09:23PM (#46930710)
What your describing is a low trust society. If you disregard the social contract like that, then people wont owe the "the world" anythign either. Collaboration and civics goes out the window. If you want to look at what kind of a shithole that libertarian nonsense leads to, then try taking a stroll in SF at night
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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by tjwebbnorfolk on Saturday February 07, 2026 @11:11PM (#46931273)
You get out of society what you put into it. If I want a seamless web of deserved trust, then of course I need to contribute to that.

I don't consider that to be saying that society "owes" me something. I regard it mutually beneficial, not some kind of debt/debtor relationship.

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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by bombcar on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:03AM (#46931449)
This is an important framing - we talk so much of "rights" but if you have a right to something, that means someone or someones have a duty to provide it.
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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by _DeadFred_ on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:19AM (#46932721)
Man I am on the wrong tech site.

Where are all the geeks that grew up on Trek and want to create a better future where society provides for it's citizens?

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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by direwolf20 on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:42AM (#46933415)
Hacker News is a system for marketing and finding new hires for Y Combinator
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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by svnt on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:47AM (#46933447)
They are here, following the prime directive.
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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by latexr on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:36AM (#46932804)
No, no it does not. If we say everyone has a right to clean air and water, no one else has a duty to provide it. Those are given to us for free by the planet. The issue is that rich assholes (and poor assholes who only think of getting rich) take that away from everyone else by polluting what is common to everyone.
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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by gspr on Sunday February 08, 2026 @03:54AM (#46932589)
> I don't consider that to be saying that society "owes" me something. I regard it mutually beneficial, not some kind of debt/debtor relationship.

You know, in phrases like "you owe it to your spouse/sibling/friend/self to...", people aren't talking about formal debt. Please try to keep that kind of meaning in mind when people say that society owes its people.

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