Ayuuuuuuuup. Movable feast is a great term for it. Even once formerly ostracized groups get permitted into the in-group, their membership is strictly conditional on serving the interests of those closer into the center of the Whiteness construct. Stop being useful, watch how fast the old hate rears its ugly head again.
JohnBierce
joined 2 years ago
Fucking giant water and power guzzling data centers, ugh.
I haven't seen any numbers on how much Sora cost to train, nor how much it costs to run- I can't help but believe it's painfully high.
How delightfully ineffective
(Seriously, what has Effective Altruism ever accomplished beyond buying castles?)
As someone who made decent money off that site back in the day, fuck Steemit. Realizing that my earnings came from Korean folks losing their life savings turned me against crypto for life.
Such a shock.
I absolutely get the "I'd be a good billionaire" fantasy, it's something I've indulged in every now and then- but for me, it's really more a personal agency fantasy, just one of many ways I like to imagine having the power to single-handedly make the world better. But... in the end, they ARE fantasies, are just cathartic games for me to play when I'm feeling particularly overwhelmed by the world's bullshit. (And they usually involve giving the money away, hah.) No one should actually have that much individual power. Definitely not me, lol.
It's the people who defend the exploitative systems that make billionaires possible, for the sake of that fantasy, who really irk me. They've genuinely convinced themselves, on some level, that it's possible to, as you said, keep the billions without being a leech on society. That there's somehow a chance they could really be that billionaire personally, or even that they're actually temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
But the laughter it brings us?
Priceless.
I've spent way too many pages of my books making fun of utilitarians to stop now lol.
Even Peven Stinker, friend and defender of Jeffrey Epstein, is coming out against EA? Wow.
Goddamnit I wish I'd intended that pun
Seconding, Mismeasure of Man is fantastic.