Why is everyone acting like nothing's happening?

It's obvious that in the next few years we'll have extreme unemployment rates.Things have already been really bad for a while, the media just refuses to acknowledge reality so everyone thinks they're just individually suffering. My former employer tried to replace some dumb automation I was maintaining with AI and now they're back to doing everything manually, i literally now have first hand experience with people trying and failing to actually leverage this soykaf in a way that is threatening. But I guess it doesnt matter, the global economy won't resist the ongoing war on Iran, so we will see AI fuarrrking burst into soykaf, take the stocks with it and jobs will not come back anyway. It's joever, this is the kill yourself economy. Once the true pricing of AI is revealed, it’s not going to be something most organisations can afford to utilise. The megacorporations like Amazon will probably fire everyone to replace them with AI, but I can’t see every mom and pop business that nevertheless currently survives against automated conglomerates going all in on AI. "Just learn trades" won't work - guess what, everyone's going to be doing that. I think a anyone should be prepared to become indefinitely unemployed, with a very high degree of propability, in the very near (5-10 years) future. How are you preparing?

>>98718 the automation of labor long predates the rise of AI, which is simply one of the more superficial manifestations of capital's negation of life (c.f. debord's augmented survival). as this process continues to accelerate material wealth will continue to concentrate, but given the current geopolitical situation it is probable that capital is going to suffer a pretty major reorganization these coming decades. nevertheless this phenomenon is neither new nor is it predicated on any formal system of power. we have built a machine far more complex than any of us is willing to admit, and to answer the title question, everyone's acting like nothing's happening because nothing is happening. this machine is proceeding in its operation very smoothly, eliminating every point of failure at every level of its operation as it presents itself. the media is also one of the more superficial manifestations of this organism, and indeed one of its more important self-regulation organs, whose purpose is to continually affirm its founding predications and express its genetic material, which is then carried out by its moving parts, whether human or otherwise.

a lot of economist are being really dumb about the whole "just go blue collar" thing. It's about 3-4 years needed experience for a white collar person to regain most of their salary in the trades assuming everything goes well. It's not an emergency safety net, and just starting out you won't make much more than you do in fast food. realistically a lot of people are just going to end up somewhere in the war economy or on the street

If everyone is broke how will big corps stay in business, will they sell to LLMs, and government bailouts can only keep them afloat as long as there are people paying taxes. Maybe a slave class will keep things running for a while but I think even the immigrants will go home when things get that bleak

Just hold silver and monero and learning bartering and social defence

Nobody cares anymore, and most people never did in the first place. Also the media is owned by people like epstein of course they say nothing but lies.

>why is everyone acting like nothing's happening? the actual solutions to the charade involve taking power away from those who have been profiting off the charade. >AI the last gasp of capitalist exploitation. They'll bet the whole fuarrrking farm on that working, because if it doesn't, they will not be able to make the number go up any more.

i've always been broke and unemployable so i'm already prepared, i'll do random odd jobs and trade/scavenge/steal/make stuff to sell like i've always done. i don't have children and i live a simple life so i don't need much to live. i'm excited to see the economy collapse and everyone being out of work and miserable, i've been waiting for this for years, it will be a lot of fun to watch. what i might do is get into moonshining, get a 50 lb bag of animal feed corn and some yeast and build a big still and when everyone is broke and miserable and can't even afford to get drunk on storebought booze with all the inflated prices and sales taxes i can sell them jars of cheap corn liquor to cheer them up. and if some no-account carpetbagger from the government comes out here to try and bust up my still he'll get a .30-30 in the hind end.

>>98739 >muh capitalism They're tyrants. Feudalism never ended. Why make it complicated? It only creates confusion and never helps anyone.

lain, that's exactly why I have never forced myself to make relationships and kids. Not because I "don't want to", but rather, because I somehow realized the world would get even more automated than it already was. >>98730 >end up somewhere in the war economy >war economy Sad!

I will be studying electrical engineering, out of the love for creating things and understanding the world. Ai will never take that away from me. I fear having to use ai in order to stay competitive in the workplace and seriously hope this whole soykaf blows up before that. But i already see it happening. My fuarrrkass coworkers keep talking about ai and try to create bots that trade for them. Its so pathetic. I hope there's some other lains at the uni I'll be going to. And I hope i can quit my job at this bank I did an apprenticeship at to work somewhere where I actually create stuff, not just Sysadmin BS with suppliers who cannot handle their soykaf. At least I barely get any work assigned to me. Stoned homeoffice Fridays my beloved <3

>>98745 it seems like i'm the only one who does not use AI in my course for literally everything from documents to snippets of code to search to psychological help, but i study CS so i digress. But my guess is that EE is the same. I think they even use it to chat the times i had to ask stuff. I think google is just releasing some more integration with phone apps so that people will just shut their brain off and be spied on permanently.

also shoutout 3rd world elite, i like their stuff. They made OP's picrel: https://www.thirdworldelite.com/home ironically mainly active on instagram

>>98745 gonna be starting EE soon too, and now it's all about AI soykaf lol, it has infected absolutely everything. whatever, I doubt I will need to larp that much about it, I didn't need to when I was in IT vocational school beause none of the people there actually have any idea what words mean anymore.

>>98741 >feudalism never ended it totally did, though. A feudal lord has specific bonds with his vassals, he couldn't just hire and fire them at will. In most places he was both your employer and the law. Peasants were often required to dress in a way that people could know their social class just by looking, and they would be required to bow before the feet of their social superiors. The economy was overwhelmingly agrarian and almost all skilled trades were tightly controlled by guilds. Does this sound anything like the modern day? Feudalism is quite fully dead and gone in most of the world and replaced with capitalism, which in fact is not very complicated at all. We all understand it well enough, because we live in it. Why try to obfuscate the issue by calling it something else?

>>98718 I don't mean to be that guy or anything like that, but if the person you're talking to happens to live in a nation such as India then their statement makes a bit more sense. Yes, traditional feudalism is in fact dead, that right there isn't debatable, but elements from feudalisn can unfortunately still be found in certain parts of India's society through the caste system. I'll name a few similarities between the caste system and that of feudalism to start off with, divided into hereditary castes (jati) and Divided into hereditary classes (nobility, vassals, serfs). Caste System: Rooted in Hindu religious beliefs, where caste reflects one's past actions (karma) Feudalism: Intertwined with the authority of the church, particularly in medieval Europe. Hereditary Nature: Both systems are characterized by a clear hierarchy where individuals inherit their social status. Each system creates significant barriers that dictate social interactions, jobs, and even marital prospects based on birth. Cultural Reinforcement: Social customs and laws reinforce the status of each class or caste, making it difficult for individuals to change their social standing. Again, this is a sad reality for some people who live in the nation of India. Feudalism in it's traditional form is officially dead and will stay dead, but there are elements of her ugly face that can still be seen.

>>98752 The thing is not everything free means you are the product ie. linux and you are not obligated to enter real info into these systems hence poisoning

>>98758 Who are these capitalists then? Are they not the equivalent of feudal lords? So what, they put on different clothes and all of a sudden everything's different? That's merely theater.

>>98766 There is definitely a difference. McDonald's CEO does not have a private army and the president isn't paying him to use that army for his own war for example. A worker is not owned by the land and is not tied for life to the land he lives on. At least in theory anyone can become a business owner but the serfs could not become land owners. Capitalism definitely came out of feudalism but they are still vastly different simply because industrial society is so different. What I would compare the current corporatization of the west that came about mostly after big tech is something that is coming closer to what we saw in the former eastern block. The former eastern block was an economical system in which the ruling class used all their means including violence to build a complete monopoly over everything. And I cannot help but feel like the west is slowly moving towards that goal where we will have one huge monopoly ruling over everything

>>98718 IA is meant to optimize the surveillance mesh. You are not even a product anymore. That is an outdated anti-capitalist critique. Which was always weak anyway. You are the target and the resource. Because you are the enemy. Your government hates you and doesn't trust you. It is a relay of global power, one among many. IoT rapes your intimacy by spying on you. You pay for your own slavery and destruction.

You didn't gave a fuarrrk when it happened in the fields. You didn't gave a fuarrrk when it happened in the factories. I won't give a fuarrrk that it happen to you.

>>98813 stfu peasant and go grow more soybeans. you got a civilization to feed.

>>98813 fuarrrk you, I didn't exist when any of that soykaf happened and neither did you. This blame-shifting holier-than-thou soykaf is and always has been an attempt by cowardly, worthless people to give them a little bit of smug superiority while the world burns around them. If you don't care, fine, because if you're making a fuss about other people not being woke enough you're just a helpless crybaby anyway. But shut the fuarrrk up about it.

>>98815 the soyslop isn't going to brew itself, slag. stop being a whiney glitterboy and cook the slop.

>>98814 >>98819 fuarrrk you too, with your lame jokes and your fake laugh. Nihilists are all either stupid or sniveling rats that will bow at the slightest whiff of adversity, while calling themselves smart and above it all.

>>98821 what are you talking about?

>>98718 >the media just refuses to acknowledge reality so everyone thinks (...) well they are being paid to do that, so... they are complicit traitors make lists, names, addresses, faces, just saying, when the system collapses it is paramount that these collaborators must be promoted (in) a way that allows for no mix-ups be aware that especially those who know they are guilty of complicity are avoiding public presence for exactly that reason. this is and always was a massive problem regarding traitors, they rarely work not from the shadows, what this means is that the battlefield is decided, so you can not work agains tthem when you work from the light, or they will destroy you first. that is why the institutions, must be brought down first, traitors will always be traitors, but if the hosts are removed they will have to scatter and search new hosts. so what is actually what they parasite from, it is a incorporeal construct, a corrupted machine crafted from words, sentences that are being given validity by humans, laws that declare a state of business or affairs, humans who see this and think things like, "yes i am going to join here because if i don't somebody else will". not even taking into account people who are perfidiously driven towards collaboration out of the severity of their lifes circumstances/environmental parameters. a machine that pollutes the environment of life around it, everywhere it gains access to, irradiates the foundations of life, deteriorates the market, increases pressure, demoralizes people, scares people, destroys businesses, livelihoods, all with the use of information, words, networks... uncontrolled media uncontrolled corporations uncontrolled industries uncontrolled states is what has brought us to this state who controls these ? naturally the will of the people, the natural order of the will of the mass, what are the media corporations therefordoing ? in the business of INFLUENCING the opinion, the WILL, of the masses. this needs a corrective corporations have no self awareness, they are no conscious beings, it is not "the media" that thinks "today i am going to do X Y or Z, or that would be immoral because it harms people, no. there is no "the media" that dies of a gsw and suddenly the sky turns blue and birds start to sing again. it is people, hundreds, thousands of people that are responsible by complicity, by actively working for what is objectively posion for the civilization in its current state. there are no countermeasures in place, no brakes, that prevent that humans with bad intentions, intentionally, gain access to the power to reshape the rules these golems, that are these (in)corporations, are controlled with. always. this needs to change. good things, good automaton corporations the rulesets that make it happen, must be preserved, the rest must be culled. this does not happen, instead the market rules allow the most ruthless to prevail and further increase suffering. this must stop

>>98799 >You pay for your own slavery and destruction. that is the business principle in so many places these days, and it must be actively countered. the solution to that is not a answer but a question to which the answer is yes it is one of the wef prime wagers that man gave away in exchange for no worries the monopoly of violence the right to execute force against oppressors the trade off of this in exchange for the promise of alleged safety from bodily harm, protected by the new sovereign, the incorporeal entity that sends its executive forces when the situation is dire. but what if it fails because it is rotten ? hollowed out from the inside ? starting to protect the predators instead of the pacifists ? well you can only hope that pacifism itself has not turned into poison of the mind and body this can go on only for so long the corporation does not concern itself with the suffering and hardship of the individual, it has no emotion, it does not bleed, it is immortal unless it is killed.

i like to focus on the bright side of things. one thing i am looking forward to when things get really bad is there's going to be so much crime and so many people in jails that they won't have room to jail people for petty crimes because they need to make room for all the murderers and whatnot, so going to jail won't really be a big deal anymore, you'll most likely be right back out on the street in no time and you won't even have to worry about it hurting your chances of getting a job because there are no jobs anyway. life will basically be like trailer park boys where you and your friends just live in squalor and nobody has a job and you just hang out all day getting drunk and high and eating chicken fingers and stealing everything that isn't nailed down and dreaming up crazy scams and illegal soykaf to do for cash and you eventually go to jail for a little while and then you get out and pick up right where you left off.

nothing is happening. you're just delusional.

>>99116 this literally happened in San Francisco during the covid lockdowns, it sucked ass and everyone hated it.

>>99840 stop living in a soykaf city. because you're delusional

>>99841 I don't live in SF...

>>99116 for most people here what really happens is since lainons generally have a little bit of money but not enough to live in the secure areas all your soykaf just gets broken into and stolen over and over. you go to work but can't buy anything nice since there's no point until you leave the area. that being said i'm still 70% with you because god i don't want to go to work tomorrow

>>98737 Most of our current system is owned by people like epstein, in fact. The AI bubble was created by epstein collaborators. We're letting them take this pitiful, strained, victory lap over all of us, but really they should all be hanged. It is within our power to do so. It would be easy. A bot or a soulless husk will disagree with me, but it would be very easy for the people to make it happen and hang them all.

>>98718 >"Just learn trades" won't work - guess what, everyone's going to be doing that. I think a anyone should be prepared to become indefinitely unemployed, with a very high degree of probability, in the very near (5-10 years) future. Good, that will drive down labour cost and I won't have to pay a soykafty plumber or a shoddy electrician more than a doctor to do work on my home when I could do it myself with better quality outcomes, I just don't have the space to store all the tools. Also AI is being used solely to justify the use of AI. People don't like it, but if they didn't use it, how could we justify new data centers? How could we justify using it to "optimize everything" 99% of the tasks AI gets used for is something a rudimentary search or computer program could have accomplished.

>>98718 because the majority still keeps moving (try standing still in the middle of a moving herd) and none of the 'powers' that people look to for their social input tell them things are going south, so people just keep dancing to the tune because LOL THEY'RE fuarrrkING STUPID

>>102116 Pretty much. Luckily you can still prepare for the coming crisis. As much good as that will do you. Is it better to be wiped out by the stampede, or stand strong for a short while? I know what I'll pick, but I'm tough like that. And who knows really... >>98740 >if some no-account carpetbagger from the government comes out here to try and bust up my still he'll get a .30-30 in the hind end. Just like the good ole days.

>>102070 >Most of our current system is owned by people like epstein >but it would be very easy for the people to make it happen and hang them all How? Even most protests are literal pysops funded by billionaires. America is a nation of 300+ million and yet the fact that people still can not take power away from just a few hundred shows you that the system has failed. Even the Luigi event pretty much a blimp which only got a tiny small fry. So many more people die when they are threats to the elite rather than idk just taking them out. I have yet to recall a modern billionarie ever having to pay consequences for their actions ever. The message seems to be that if you have enough power and status you can rape children and get away with it for decades because nobody will fight back... And the government will lie about what happened and people can't do anything about it.

>>102124 All it would take is for a large mass of people to drop this bullshīt act that they are all too powerless to do anything, and then we all get together and do something, the crushing power of a mass of humans, faster than bureaucracy can respond. I should not have said it would be easy, it would not be easy. It would be simple, but hard. Kind of like sticking to a diet and losing weight. Simple, but hard. And we all know how westerners feel about dieting. At a certain point, if people do not decide to take the simple but hard path, they are all complicit in the abuse. I think people are just waiting for a starting gun, for someone with authority to tell them what to do in order to finally hang the epsteiners. They do not realize that they are ultimately waiting for an order from the epsteiners themselves, and it will never come. I will continue to speak out until I am either silenced by force, or the epstein class have all been hanged. People may one day mass and move at once to accomplish this goal. We will see.

>>102143 >the crushing power of a mass of humans Can be destroyed with a few well placed machine guns. You have to be smart about asymmetric warfare, that's the hard part.

The problem is that people are individualists. Too few if any are willing to die for a small contribution toward solving this situation. There would have to be a large cultural shift. Those in power have power because of those under them who use violence to enforce their wills. If those who actually engage in the violence on their behalf all died, there would be nothing left to protect them and their ways. Life isn't GTA. There are not infinite police officers. If there was a widespread cultural shift toward cops being kill on sight, things would change. If everyone decided they were willing to die just to bag a cop or two, this whole matter could be overcome.

>>102158 >destroyed with a few well placed machine guns. You can't just mow down all of your cattle and expect to keep harvesting year over year. Plus the optics of doing so would guarantee further resistance and sympathy funding for militias. >>102162 I agree the issue is no one is willing to die for such a cause. Not even that no one is willing to die, I certainly am willing, but no one is willing to die right now for no reason. Until there is a clear goal and a tangible means of achieving said goal, people would rather not die in vain. The internet is getting flooded with bots and feds, which makes forming that clear goal next to impossible here. Public, real life spaces have this weird energy to them that makes it similarly difficult to discuss these things. It's like a psychic field of sorts, you never talk about real soykaf in public for long. Perhaps it's the idea that anyone can record you at any time and get you mocked or fired. The panopticon. But maybe it's just our young generation being pussified, unable to withstand enough discomfort to discuss real issues off the cuff. This crusade might not even need to lead to violence in general, we could come up with a mostly peaceful path that still leads to justice for epstein crimes. Mostly peaceful, I still want the major players to hang of course...

>>102174 >You can't just mow down all of your cattle and expect to keep harvesting year over year. At some point the cattle wise up and stop trying to rebel. That, plus you restrict their information about the event. This is the basic authoritarian playbook. See the Tienanmen Square Massacre.

>>102174 It's difficult to get a small group of people to agree on >what's wrong >how things should be >how to get there >how to fund it >who should be in charge >how to prevent infiltration >how to handle conflict within the group and all sorts of other things. Trying to organize a whole nation just isn't happening. You need to have a program that is simple and compatible with an ocean of people who have all sorts of different beliefs and goals. Just kill cops is the best such program. I don't care what you believe, the cops stand between you and enforcing your will. Nazi, commie, ancap, some other special snowflake, all of them need the cops to die in the short term. Let everyone unify in that one goal now and then worry about warring for power after. The only reason I don't go shoot a cop in the head today is because I don't believe anyone else will. This is why we need a cultural shift. A good propaganda campaign repeatedly and widely calling for distributed and isolated ambushes on a particular day at a particular time could do it. There would need to be time for people to hype each other up and gain confidence in each other. If you had long been hearing people talking soykaf about how many cops they'll kill on day of the barbecue, then it wouldn't be so tough of a sell to join the revelry. As a bonus, as long as everyone does their duty and doesn't bitch out, no one who survives has to fear prison.

>>98758 >>98766 >>98770 Capitalism eats the world it depends on. For all its flaws, I don't recall Feudalism doing this.