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1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll::For years, scholars and science fiction writers have warned about the possibility of workers being replaced by machines. Now after the world of artificial intelligence took a giant leap forward in 2023, it appears we are one step closer to that becoming a reality. Executives of some of the largest and most powerful companies in […]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Let’s completely liquidate billionaires to pay for UBI. There’s literally only a few of them

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

completely liquidate billionaires

I'm imagining a new series of "Will it blend?"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Blenders are so 2000s, the kids are into hydraulic presses now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

That's so two-thousand-and-late.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Lets blend them. The needs of the many

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'll be humming that theme song for the next week. That's one of those earworms that have been in rotation in my brain since I first heard it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Like with a blender? Sounds fun!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There’s literally only a few of them

There were 735 billionaires in the US as of 2023. We're being exploited far more than we all realize.

You're right though. The top 7 billionaires are worth a combined 1 trillion.