'I think those people are dead wrong': Jeff Bezos slams AI naysayers, plays down job fears for young workers, and defends billionaires and Trump
https://www.techradar.com/pro/i-think-those-people-are-dead-wrong-jeff-bezos-slams-ai-naysayers-plays-down-job-fears-for-young-workers-and-defends-billionaires-and-trumpOpen linkView original on reddthat.com498
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Unrelatable dickhead expresses an opinion, promptly ignored.
More like makes me fantasize about using his chrome dome to set an Amazon data center on fire like burning ants with a magnifying glass
Sadly the inescapable physical truth of convex vs concave lensing still relentlessly holds its tenacious grip on reality, despite the billions of dollars these folks have accumulated they have still, thus far, been unable to alter that particular aspect of reality.
The only solution I can offer for Jeff Bezos is to begin forming his skull inwards somewhat so that any captured light can reach a proper focusing point. As as astronomer with some experience with such reflective optical surfaces, I'd be happy to begin the grinding and polishing process for you at any time, I'll just need you to hold him still while I work. It's a very precise process.
I assume his head is mostly thick skull surrounding empty space anyway, so I think there should be little harm done.
just make the light source more concave than his head is convex!
maybe. or just use a [REDACTED]
A high power laser? That feels like it might work. Perhaps we should start experimenting on Jeff Bezos's head to see what works best.
A high power something yeah
That's what the oligarchs want...
He has your money, and if you want it now vote JG Wentworth 2028.
Because unless we take our money back, they're just gonna fucking keep it.
Edit:
Because people might not know that commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX0fIi3H-es
Point being that's the only thing we should say to oligarchs, if we say nothing they win
So every time you see a billionaire, say "bitch, where's my money".
Don't let them talk about anything besides they have our money.
We're past the point of redistribution. We need to take it out of their hides as well.
Please nobody ignore him. Everyone needs to hear this -and be enraged.
Nothing will change until they fear for their lives.
Just wanted to throw down the reminder that health insurance companies, for a brief moment, didn't deny nearly as many claims.
Sometimes violence is the answer.
IMO capital punishment is only violence if it's done to the working class. If a judge and jury, after due process, sentences a billionaire to death that is justice.
Fear isn't enough. The whole billionaire class should be culled from society.
Nothing will change until we end their lives.
Borrowed $250k ($550k in today's money) from his family to start Amazon, has so much money now that money has ceased to have meaning. This asshole has never lived a normal life and yet he thinks he knows what kind of problems people are facing today.
That's not a bad thing. Families should do it more often: pool their money and start a business. The return rates are higher.
They are absolutely not higher, for every Jeff Bozos there's hundreds of John Does, who never made it.
The system is not your friend.
But the corporations are, who take the saved money? They pay the bare minimum. The only way to beat the system is to make own decisions.
Statements like these always remind me of the quote: "For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices." - Audre Lorde
IMO using the system in a way that abuses the system only perpetuates another system of abuse.
What does that mean? I can read it in too many directions.
That's what currently is happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
More competition is needed, more market economy, to make the system fair again. It's not abusing the system to start a business.
No, it's just using the system as it is intended. But most businesses fail.
We need to abolish the system.
That's ok. It's possible to invest in more than one company.
And do what?
Strange how a man who stands to make billions more from this, thinks all those opposed to it are wrong.
Guessing it’s due to his vast and deep knowledge of the subject, after long and careful scientific and sociologic research.
"Billionaire with vested interest in AI &Trump says there's no problems with billionares, AI & Trump"
Why the fuck even ask him?
Because people for some reason think greedy people have some authority outside of their own greed. Hint: they don't!
Why is the billionaire owned media interviewing billionaires about things that affect billionaires? We may never know
Fair point lol
Imagine that! All the billionaires defending each other. Go figure!
It’s like they have some sort of solidarity. One based on their class. Seems like an idea that could greatly benefit them.
Shit. That's brilliant. I wish it would work for the rest of us. If only we outnumbered them... Lol.
Hey, in civilised countries we look at the super-rich with contempt and disgust
We don't aspire to be amongst their number like 'Muricans tend to
And yet they hate each other, because they covet each other's wealth
They're so envious, when they have no need to be
It's an illness
The only cure is the guillotine
Yes. Lol. Not like anyone else will for much longer.
Being completely wrong on all topics is an accomplishment on its own.
What sorts of salads and sides would go well with him?
I'd feed him to my dog
But while he's still alive
(my dog is about as harmless as it gets, he's old, missing many teeth and just wants to sleep and cuddle, but still...)
I'd wager that Bezos tastes bitter, sour and otherwise unpleasant
Don't do that to your poor dog. Let's just treat Jeff like government cheese, stored in slices in a cave, because nobody wants to eat it.
It takes dedication and really going the extra mile to be so diabolically shitty.
its
These billionaire ghouls just don't know when to stfu
I honestly cannot imagine being THAT rich, being able to do anything, and still being such a massive piece of shit
You don't get to be that rich without being a massive piece of shit.
Exactly. Average asshole gets a billion, they get a financial advisor, let their money turn into generational wealth with investments, and donate to charity while living in a big mansion.
The billionaires we have are more of mentally sick wannabe dragons, the horde will never be big enough to satisfy them.
Hell, that will happen at tens of millions. The magnitude of a billion is crazy.
Even if they are more driven to keep going, others turn to more philanthropic pursuits. Well before a billion the number becomes more like a high score rather than giving any quality of life improvements, so what's the point of getting more? Most will want to mean more to the world than just some high score. So accumulated wealth starts getting directed away for all but sociopaths that relish the high score in and of itself.
Or what? What are you(plural) gunna do about it? They keep getting away with it so what is this “when” you speak of and what’s going to happen?
Even small children and animals learn very quickly that empty threats are far more cringey than scary and begin ignoring them almost immediately. These are grown people who’ve lived their whole lives without consequences and you think they give a shit?
I don't think they can afford to, if they're betting on this technology. They have to use their public influence to convince as many (important) people as possible for as long as possible to squeeze as much money as possible. After all, if these successful CEOs say it's good, other CEOs may be swayed as well, and they're the suckers that'll end up deciding to spend the fruit of other people's labour on infrastructure and tokens.
These people literally have fuck you money, they can afford a fuck-up like the AI bubble popping tens of times over if not endlessly with their countless legal loopholes. Their attitudes are based purely on having never faced repercussions for their societal parasitism and an insatiable desire for "more".
Financially, sure. Emotionally, their sense of self-worth and their image is defined by their financial success. To have bet on a losing horse would sting. Hence, they need it to succeed.
Oh sure they have to influence, but I would expect them to do so a bit more on the down low. If they have a whiff of self awareness, they know this will just do more harm than good to their interests.
Exactly. They have so much money they could fuck off somewhere and live the rest of their lives and their families in sumptous luxury without even having made a dent in their fortune. Yet they continue to stick around and work hard at ruining everything for the rest of us, just so that they can add extra billions to their billions.
People like this bastard should be hanging
from multiple ropes in multiple pieces.
okay maybe i'm going a bit far haha
Never enough.pieces
A pillory would be a good start. Then all the Amazon drivers can line up and dump their piss bottles in his face.
I don't think we should hang him but I do think we should hang his companies.
It would be more satisfying to me to see him have to start from the bottom.
Why not both
Hang him then bury him in the ground so he can start from the bottom?
Don’t give him a second chance wtf.
Dude deserves the Mussolini treatment and nothing short of it.
Too humane. They should suffer for many, many years isolated in a filthy jail cell first
Fair enough.
Personally I think culling the entire Epstein class and dragging their corpses until every major cities' municipal boundary can be seen from space would send a more effective message.
Dip them in liquid nitrogen and christen their yachts before we scuttle them.
Hang them by their feet from a crane and see how many it takes to demolish a data center.
(Gee I wonder why I got banned from reddit)
Billionaires became billionaires by ruining the life of dozens of thousands of people each. They should have plenty of time to regret that before their end, that's my take
Fair enough.
I personally don't think anyone with the capacity to become a billionaire still has a conscience with which to regret or introspect.
Meanwhile based on my reading of history, exiling/imprisoning oligarchs works in their favour in the long run.
Too dangerous. They have lots of sycophants who would lay down their lives for them. As long as they live they are a threat.
And he loves it! In another article (possibly about the same interview) he praised Trump for being so much more assertive in his second term.
edit: oh, you meant actual Mussolini, not Mango Mussolini 😳
I'm calling for him to be summary executed and his corpse dragged through the streets and strung up on live stream in Time Square
Well what did you expect, him to come out and say "yes, billionaires are detrimental to society"?
The police investigated themselves and found nothing wrong.
WT-absolute-F? I think he got oxygen-deprived in space.
well, in the USA this is probably true, all the money would be diverted into more military spending or tax breaks for stupid filthy rich people
which is why we need tax money being spent on the communal level. not the federal level. it's the fed gov that spends it on the military, it's the municipality that spends it on schools.
The US does, for schools, which deepens social inequality.
Fair enough, LOL. Just love that it's "oh I pay TONS of taxes, but asking me to pay more in taxes won't help anything."
Also, education is locally funded. So yeah, no shit your federal taxes aren't going to go to a teacher in Queens you fucking chode
He promised!
Seriously though, does he think that a) only Bezos of all multibillionaires gets taxed double and b) that wouldn't go along with social policy?
What a dumb wacko, high on sniffing his own farts. Probably partly due to a fawning interviewer.
These creatures can't even figure out how to cosplay as fully formed human beings.
I am starting to downvote these posts. I know what an asshole like Bezos would say if asked, then a good-for-nothing tech press guy asks AND you give him a platform on Lemmy.
There is no valuable analysis or any collateral reporting that makes this other than self-inflicted propaganda.
I agree with your sentiment but I like these posts for a strategic reason: Bezos intends for his statements to bolster support, but his strategy is falling flat. Support for AI is either level or declining, and anger over its harm is growing. Bezos reveals the extent to which he is out-of-touch. I think his statements actually inflame opposition to AI: his propaganda is motivating his opponents while leaving his supporters indifferent. When I upvote Bezos quotes, I am thinking to myself, 'hey everybody, get a load of this asshole!' I am definitely not upvoting him because I think his claims have merit or that they will convert people to support AI.
I feel like the fact that Bezos himself is out here arguing means that he's losing.
He isn't losing though. Him and his fellow oligarchs have never been so rich and influential.
I know. But he's trying to do damage control. He's aware of how he's perceived, and he's worried.
Or he just believes he's so important and special that everyone needs to hear his special genius thoughts.
So for you it is masturbation. Got it.
Thank you! Im really irritated by the amount and ratio of upvotes this post has.
Hey a rich out of touch asshole who has nothing in common with his fellow man has an opinion about something!
I bet he knows what he's talking about!
Oh, so the cartoonishly evil CEO said the evil rogues gallery of CEOs isn't evil? It's also so funny how he could say "no, young worker's jobs aren't in that much danger." Then mark fuckerberg goes on stage saying how many people he's replaced with ai. Wholly shit its impossible.
Luigi
One thing that's become very clear is that all these billionaires are not smart people. Most of them were born on 3rd base or just got lucky.
But their are not wise or worth listening to.
In fact most of them are just shitty dumb pieces of shit psychopaths
The psychopath (at the bare minimum sociopath) part is important. You can't get there without dehumanising your workers.
Ooh also don't forget the wealthy connections you can make from being a pedophile.
Make the guillotine great again
Mark my words, Jeff is positioning himself to eventually run for president.
He does check all the boxes for the American electorate
✅ Self interested - “A success story!”
✅ Blames poor people for their poverty - “Why don’t you just work harder?”
✅ Avoids paying taxes - “When I’m a billionaire, I won’t want to pay either!”
✅ Does not understand that revenue from tax dollars should be used to support social programs and government services that are not specifically profit generating (food programs, emergency preparedness, environmental conservation, mail to remote areas, etc) - “The government should be run like a business”
It’s the next cosplay for the billionaire class
Money hoarding worker abuser said what?
If you didn't hear it's in the headline (/j)
If I were making tons of cash on AI speculation I would say that, too. Doesn't make it accurate. Facts tell a different story.
He's already wrong. If only he were dead.
Then who'd be dead wrong?
He especially shouldn't mention the word guillotine.
Don't care didn't ask, let me know when it's time to string him up like Mussolini
It's time.
Damm we got slammed
BOMBSHELL reporting right there
alien bezos saying humans should stop resisting AI.
He took his plastic wife's advice and got botox and now he can't move his fucking mouth correctly.
Alex Jones lookin ass
Hate how this greedy ghouls are constantly amplified by news organizations as "experts" and "thought leaders".
Unsurprising reaction from a supervillain.
Maybe just villain. There's really nothing super or special about the guy.
That mofo crushed physical retail almost completely, killed off a lot of malls and mom-and-pop stores and even Sears and JC Penney (coincidentally the pioneers of mail-order shopping). Nearly all websites are hosted on AWS servers. Owns UA/MGM and therefore has some ironic control of the James Bond films and franchise.
Literally opposite-world opinions
I completely removed myself from Amazon since a few years and I couldn't be happier. Everyone should do this.
Fuck what he says, why the fuck does he look like the bastard child between Santa Claus and Lex Luthor?!
Cuz he's a lizard wearing a mask. Like I've never been into that conspiracy theory... but Hoooo lyyyyy shiiiiit does he look like a fuckin lizard in a mask!
I’d imagine this applies even more to billionaires who make the average person’s salary every minute.
Yeah that's pretty much the trifecta of doing everything people hate.
I think he is right about tech workers working on a higher level, using a bulldozer instead of a shovel, but thats going to be a good thing for the company, not the worker.
He sees the company as the main driver in the economy and if it's good for the company, it's good for the country. If it sucks for workers, it's a sacrifice he is willing to make...
Boosting productivity is very bad for the stressed worker who gets a new performance baseline that is 10 times what it was before. We already see this happening.
He is right about this too, because he knows the taxes in America is not going to those people. America has so much money but they spend it on weapons instead of their country.
So he is not lying in this interview. He is saying the truth which is why things are so sad. Him paying more taxes would just give more money to the weapons industry. He is existing inside a country where the presidents doesn't care about ordinary people at all. Same as Russia.
I think Jeff loves AI to death
Not yet he doesn't but maybe if we all work together
Let them eat cake.
Or instead, and I'm going out on a limb here, the rich.
The ruling class is allowed to inflict infinite violence upon you, but the moderators here do not allow for you to suggest the ruling class shouldn't have a monopoly on violence.
It is typical liberal behavior, enforcing the status quo for no reason other than civility.
Ask guy for thoughts about critics against thing he's profiting from.
He responds with "they're wrong."
Did he remove the wonk from his eye?
Lucky photo probably
does anybody have any numbers on how many taxes he actually pays? (with sources pls)
Of course he does. In their future we don't exist as citizens but as chattel
He looks like an old version of markiplier from that angle