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They're trying to pivot to world domination.

Total enslavement of humanity, automated by their tech companies.

I'm not kidding. -_-

By that point the earth will be so polluted they will make profits by selling us clean air/02 in canisters, clean water, food an housing. Those of us that can't afford it will just die.

Capitalism is a rabid dog, that only managed to serve the middle class well in the past because it was kept muzzled and on a tight leash.

Successive, and successful attempts to ‘unleash the beast’ have left us bit, and apologies for mixing metaphors here, but there is probably no way left, to get the genie back into the bottle:

Undoing 50+ years of damage would take time, especially when faced with resistance from those that stand to benefit most from the current broken system (think the Top 1% of the 1%), and that is time that we simply do not seem to have.

The executives sell the corporate plane piece by piece while still in the air, then jump out in a golden parachute while the remains of the company nose dive to a fiery end.

Falling rate of profit by karl marx predicted this. Self destructive nature of capitalism

A socialist revolution is the only solution and it will come.

They don't have a plan. It's pigs at the trough.

These "people" in charge of corporations genuinely forgot that the workers they underpay are the consumers who they on rely to give them money.

You pay me $10 to punch you in the face. I pay you $10 to kick me in the balls. We just increased our country's GDP by $20.

Answer. They don't fucking have a plan. At all.

So poor people will become disposable?

Kill off all of the poors they no longer need and live in a utopia being served by robots.

I heard recently this summary:

The US economy depends on two things:

• Steady growth in available jobs
• The bet on AI eventually pay off and replace all jobs with AI.

The idea is just to get there first. If you make it one quarter before your competition then you get a a really good quarter.

Long terms plans don't matter to CEOs. Long term stability is not rewarded by capitalism.

It is all a con. There is no endgame. They aren't thinking that far ahead. And when the reality hits them it will land on them like a cartoon piano. They'll never see it coming.

Not just that, even as a company I would be seriously anxious when I know my business can be fully run by AI. That means that others can replicate your business very easily, which generates lots of competition, resulting in a race to the bottom. Which might even be good for consumers somehow.

Oh, you have no idea. If you don’t have a job (or 5), then you’re going to prison for being a vagrant. Or they do some dystopian shit where you are in the equivalent work labor camp, where you are provided basic life necessities in exchange for paying off your debt by working based on your skills. No skills? Manual labor in farms or construction.

People really have no idea what we’re complacently walking into. If you’re not rich, and I mean a few million american dollarooos or trump bucks… say next 10 years…? You’re fucked.

Have you ever met Capitalism™ ? The guy doesn't really do long term plans

My 401k has gotten up into the 5 digit range a couple times, but emergencies have required me to to drain it. Retirement is a dream I rarely harbor.

I'm working until the day I die. My mother fancies herself retired and rots away in a house she imagines she owns, but it has been property of the bank since before I was born in the 80s. A mortgage that was essentially renting with extra steps.

I'm just whining now, so I'll stop.

You forgot they're also whining about declining birth rate, and begging people to have more kids.

Nobody is thinking beyond next quarter.

the short-term plan is to slurp up all the stuff while they can. The long term plan is that there is no place for plebs in the automated future. The unwritten prologue to their sci-fi adventure is us commoners being abandoned to starve on a poisoned and resource-depleted mud ball as the intrepid billionaires go off to explore the cosmos with their robot pals.

People tend to forget how cheap gasoline is and how abundant glass bottles and rags are.

Corporate welfare of course

The closest thing to an endgame in capitalism is slavery.

Sell to other billionaires ad nauseum. Let the rest of humanity starve. The usual kings and peasants model