It’s nice to know that hundreds of millions of our tax dollars have been spent buying these services from tech ghouls like Peter Thiel for such ‘fantastic’ results....

The popularity of good ‘ol fashion book burnings is about forcibly rewriting history. You kind of had to burn books to get rid of all the things written in them that didn’t agree with ‘your version of events’ and/or that you didn’t want the public to know. Digital media, on the other hand, can be rewritten on a whim…

It’s called capitalism. Wealthy business owners aren’t pushing AI to replace themselves. They’re pushing AI to increase *THEIR* portfolios by replacing everyone else. They *OWN* or are major shareholders in these AI systems, ie ‘capital.’ You and other employees don’t own any real capital, never will, and were never…

If you understand capitalism, then you understand this is exactly in line with capitalist dogma, especially for the wealthy — sharing the wealth means that other people should share their wealth. Not ‘you.’ You’re a special flower, and you earned your wealth with all your ‘hard work’ exploiting and abusing employees...…

Yeah, the notion that we’d somehow turn a corner and figure our shit out in a century or two is wildly naive (sorry to burst your bubble, but Star Trek isn’t happening). Given the speed of evolution, that’s nowhere near enough time for humanity to outgrow the detrimental base instincts that are now actively harming…

And that frugality will, naturally, apply to himself, right? Right???

[CEO translator engaged]

Yes, please tell us more about how you don’t know how any of this works without telling us you don’t know how any of this works....

/eyeroll

She’s just the tip of the iceberg (or spear, depending on your perspective) of America’s Generation Stupid.

On the contrary — it’s not that games prices are too low, it’s that executive pay bloat is too high. And Mr Capcom president, there’s an ‘easy’ fix...fire your stupid ***, especially after throwing out such an idiotic take on a situation *YOU* had a hand in creating in the first place.

Death by a thousand cuts doesn’t happen instantly...but let’s not use logic or anything.

All you’re doing is trying to surf the inflation wave. Sooner or later, no matter where you move, the price is going to catch up with you. Because that’s how the capitalism market works — when a given market is fully saturated to the maximum allowable profit margins (regardless of how many or how badly people suffer…

This all sounds good in theory but in practice it ignores the 100-ton elephant in the room: capitalism’s insatiable pursuit of ever-increasing profit margins. AI’s impact on profits is simply too significant to be ignored. That’s why so many businesses are investing in AI and why AI firms are so quickly pushing their…

Agreed. With as much as the union members have lost over their strike, three years is barely enough time to recoup, only to be right back at this again. Which is probably the point: kill the WGA slowly through attrition, grinding them down through the repeated and exhausting strikes it takes to keep the AMPTP from…

Don’t worry. They’ll just move the goalposts of what qualifies as ‘climate change’ again. Also, they’ll continue to poison the public’s perception of the term ‘climate change’ just like they did with global warming.

The board can overrule the CEO’s decisions. They can also fire him. The company president can overrule or fire the CEO. None of that happened. Because they all wanted the same thing. And firing the CEO would change nothing about that or what Unity’s leadership wants to do with Unity or the developers who use it. It’s…

The CEO is just the tip of the iceberg of all the people who need to go. Removing Ricc the Dick would barely make a dent in the decision process that created this mess.

Nobody cares at this point. Nothing short of walking back Unity’s *ENTIRE* upper management — execs, board of directors, etc — will undo the damage. It’s their fault. They thought it was a good idea. Which means the people responsible for this fiasco are still around, still in a position to make another equally stupid…

Because when price gouging doesn’t work, there’s always the enshitification option....