AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It

Re:AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come ... by Ray20 on Sunday April 12, 2026 @12:24PM (#47741529)

> Ownership of the economy is split roughly 30/30/30 between the top 10%/1%/.1%

This is simply not true and a cheap attempt at manipulation.

> If you picture "the owners" by

A practically useless characteristic. A more relevant would be to look at "the spender". Possessions is simply what hasn't yet been spent and poorly reflects the controlled resources.

> for passive income

Frankly, mentioning passive income in this context isn't even idiotic, it's a clinical diagnosis. Or, more likely, a cheap attempt at manipulation.

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Re:AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come ... by smallmancontrov on Sunday April 12, 2026 @01:46PM (#47742392)

It's simply true.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSN40176

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSN09149

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBS99T999259

There's more to say, of course. The role of housing, the role of the government, using DCFs for apples-to-apples comparisons of assets, jobs, social services, and the incentives thereof, behavioral economics, and so on. If you reflexively recoil at the notion that assets have returns, however, you aren't even at the starting line.

> mentioning passive income in this context isn't even idiotic, it's a clinical diagnosis

We could use the IRS term if you prefer: "unearned income"

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