It goes beyond that. There is inherent classism in this, because it implies that you do not question the value of wealthy people who put in relatively little actual work output due to their privileged position. Take for example the unemployed person in your example who might have literally been 100 times more productive in their career solving substantive problems than a VC who lucked out on their startup and has been cruising on a few boards for ten years.

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akomtu an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

If there is anything worse than the tyranny of greed, it is the tyranny of a machine that's trying to optimize you 24/7.

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pasquinelli an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

if we optimize the billionaire class everyone's better off, like i said. of course we can go orange catholic, but my comment was premised on how we might apply ai.

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shimman an hour ago | parent [-]

The billionaire class don't want universal childcare, they don't want medicare for all, they don't want a public jobs program, they don't want a welfare state, and they sure as fuck don't want to be told no.

I'm failing to see how caring about billionaires is suppose to help everyone else. The current American society, via neoliberal economics, is already optimized to help the billionaires (hence why they extract all the wealth and why income inequality is at its highest in the US since ever).

	▲	pasquinelli 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		read "optimize the billionaire class" as "trim the fat."