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[–] Kaliax@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Excellent points. Are there any mechanisms that could reasonably push back that do not involve starvation and violence? I genuinely hope there are and that we find and use them.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Are there any mechanisms that could reasonably push back that do not involve starvation and violence?

If we could get the vast majority of Americans to participate in an economic or general strike, that might. Truly, I wish we could get every American to opt out of Black Friday this year and just buy nothing, because that would turn the heads of people in power and demonstrate our collective power in a positive way.

But I'm not naive enough to think anything short of unimaginable calamity will change the trajectory we're on. I'm actually keeping a portion of my portfolio in liquid cash on the possibility that the AI bubble bursting causes a dot-com-adjacent drop in the markets.