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Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here by lanfeust6 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:55AM (#49449252)
Their wealth is more contingent on our consumption than employment status. If that goes, then you're looking at a zero-sum society where no new wealth is generated.

Ultimately people will remain enterprising status-seekers. Rich people can already sit around with their wealth doing fuck-all excepting consuming, and they don't.

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Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here by lanfeust6 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:39PM (#49458362)
lol well the majority of the top 1% globally didn't make their fortune serving food, to other wealthy patrons no less (how's that for circular reasoning). We're in a consumer society, B2B sales is a thing but it's a side-effect of that.
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Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here by zqna on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:21PM (#49457253)
They wealthy will be buying islands (as big as Australia) get high on cocaine and do safari, shooting humans there as the ultimate fun [1]. The prey underestimates how the mind of predator works, and that's why it is a prey.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3epygq5272o

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Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here by SimianSci on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:52PM (#49468625)
Predator and prey dynamics typically cross outside of classifications like species and are not inter-species like what is suggested here.

It can be easy to mistake a parasitic relationship for a predatory one.

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Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here by lanfeust6 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:09PM (#49469742)
That would also not be an inter-species relationship.
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