| ▲ | kjkjadksj 3 days ago |
| If only we could remind them somehow that inevitable migration, famine, and mass death is not as profitable as alternatives. |
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| ▲ | nathan_compton 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| We could "remind them" by passing laws that made them pay for externalities. |
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| ▲ | jeffbee 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Like, uniquely among all other industries? You don't think the petrochemical industry, for example, needs to pay for its larger externalities? | | |
| ▲ | nathan_compton 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I think pretty much all industries could be paying more taxes. | | |
| ▲ | jeffbee 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Big same, friend. But the kinds of people who think taxing externalities of AI would be a big victory are going to be extremely mad about $8/gal motor fuels. |
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| ▲ | _Algernon_ 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Who passes those laws? The politicians bought and paid for by the same companies? | | |
| ▲ | goku12 3 days ago | parent [-] | | That's the failure of the people. Those politicians are supposed to represent their constituents - not their highest bidder. Democracy is not a system where people choose a politician and hand them the power and authority over themselves for the next half a decade. Instead, people have to constantly and consistently boss them and hold them accountable. This is the duty of every citizen towards a democratic constitution, without which the latter is not even viable. I know what response to expect for the above. It will be contemptuously dismissed with the remark that it's just a fantasy. But I hope you're seeing the congress people running out of town halls via the backdoors in disgrace after their constituents heckled them and challenged their demagoguery. Sadly, it's a tad bit late. This should have been the response to much less provocation. Still, many of those politicians are now afraid to blindly endorse the ideas of their overlords. This concept isn't new either. This was widely experimented with during the French revolution. They had provisions to recall and replace the reps in such instances. What people need are political education and a strong allegiance to the constitution. |
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| ▲ | lwo32k 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The Vatican has survived all that including the fall of countless nations and empires. Guess how they did it? |
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| ▲ | kjkjadksj 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Unfortunately not all of us can establish a religion capable of organizing a continents worth of peasants into being alright with the status quo that keeps a boot on their neck. |
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| ▲ | micromacrofoot 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| for people continually chasing power that eventuality is actually an upside |
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| ▲ | kjkjadksj 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I’m sure many aristocrats buried without a head in France also thought their money would buy security from mob justice and insulate them from the breakdown of the social hierarchy that protected them in the first place. | | |
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