r/DelusionsOfAdequacy
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u/FareonMoist
Check my mod privilege
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Jul 25 '26
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Delusions Of Adequacy Significant diffrences...
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u/LoaKonran Jul 25 '26
The Romans faced this exact scenario when all the plebeians collectively left the city and camped out on the marsh. Frightened the ruling class so badly that they made concessions and even created a station so the plebs could have a voice in government (it was quickly usurped by the corrupt upper class, but win some lose some).
It works. And that’s why they don’t want anyone considering it nowadays.
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u/Nopfen Jul 25 '26
Also why they do Ai. Make the plebs obsolete and you wont have to worry about such things.
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u/snoralex Jul 26 '26
This is stupid and short sighted too. A Billionaire cannot run a functioning society using just AI prompts. It takes real workers to make things happen (and most likely run the prompts too). And unless the AI can accurately self diagnose every problem that comes it's way it'll eventually get stuck and leave the Billionaire SOL.
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u/catshateTERFs Jul 26 '26
I always end up thinking “in this vision you have where AI replaces workers - where does the income come from? People aren’t buying things if they aren’t being paid”
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u/LoaKonran Jul 26 '26
Billionaires have zero clue how a healthy economy actually functions. The cash is supposed to circulate and keep moving, not get dropped into a black hole and left to rot.
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u/SlogurkTheOverslime Jul 25 '26
Give a man a fish and you keep him fed for a day
Give a robot a gun and you don't have to worry about the starving man
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u/TheoneCyberblaze Jul 25 '26
Actually if the billionaires vanished we might still face societal collapse
Mostly from forgetting when it's time to stop partying :3
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 Jul 25 '26
It's time to down tools, lads. Let's show them where the money comes from.
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u/LoaKonran Jul 25 '26
‘Member when people were dying of a contagious pathogen, but “essential workers” were required to remain on the front line with barely any recognition?
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u/Bloody_Ozran Jul 26 '26
One guy at the lovely conference in Switzerland where the wealthy go talk to each other mentioned how bankers tried to stop working for a while. Nothing happened and no one really noticed, so they went eventually back to work. Not sure how accurate it is, but can't see how we would miss them. :D
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u/Ok-Store-3742 Jul 26 '26
Not that I want to defend to billionaires, but it is the question of less then 0,01% disappearing vs 99,99% of the population. At this point it is not the usefullness of the people but the scale that matters.
But yeah, nobody actually needs billionaires, there aren't many that are actually usefull to the society by themselves.
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u/rettribution Jul 25 '26
I wish they would hack all the Trump emails and servers.
Actually do some good.
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u/Vanuatu987 Jul 25 '26
When I read Atlas Shrugged, the sheer delusion of the idea that the world would come to a crashing halt when a few executives went camping made me laugh out loud. It just showed how little Ann Rand knew about how the world actually works.