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    1. Propping up our entire economy and retirement savings

    It’s not “propping up the economy”. The stock market is not the economy. If anything, AI is dragging the actual economy down further.

    designed to replace workers without a safety net

    It’s not really capable of that except in a few tasks. For programmers, a lot of companies have overhired over Covid and have been looking for excuses to downsize without looking bad to investors, especially with the economy in recession. AI is mainly a convenient excuse for that









  • If it wasn’t, then buying a single copy would legally allow you to sell an infinite amount of copies.

    Because that’s what actually owning software means.

    This. Is. A. FUCKING. Lie.

    If I buy and own a physical copy of a book. I am not then entitled to set up a printing press and sell my own word-for-word copies of said book. Same applies to ownership of digital goods.

    If I go to GOG and buy a DRM free game (aka I would then own that copy) I still wouldn’t have the legal right to distribute copies to other people.

    That’s because copyright laws exist, and they apply to both situations I described. Shame on you for mindlessly repeating industry lies.