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scuff3d 8 hours ago

Give it a hundred years or so and we're gonna have robots wandering around who about 10% of the time go totally insane and kill anyone around them. But we'll all just shrug and go about our day, because they generate so much revenue for the corporate overlords. What are a few lives when stockholder value is on the line.

philipallstar 7 hours ago | parent [-]

It's governments that tend to declare war and kill people.

scuff3d 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Millions of people die every year from tobacco, and tobacco companies fought for decades to deny their product causes cancer. In the 20th century alone it's estimated something like 100 million people died world wide thanks to smoking.

That's just one example off the top of my head. There are countless others involving corporations killing people either directly or indirectly in the pursuit of profits. And that's before you start looking at human rights violations, ecological damage, overthrowing of sovereign governments around the world...