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At some point capitalism lost the ability to give us new things that we need and started giving us new things we don't need, and now it's giving us new things we never needed and don't even really want.
Nobody needs all this generative AI crap. We were doing fine with online search functions and the ability to write and make art for ourselves. Only the most shallow and vapid of individuals find any appeal in the idea of talking to a chatbot like a companion, consuming "art" generated by a computer program, or letting the technology of some plutocratic megacorporation do their thinking, researching and expressing for them.
The economy is now balancing on a giant bubble of a fledgeling industry that is already underperforming expectations and hitting points of diminishing returns on multiple fronts, all while being really bad for the environment. And it doesn't improve anyone's life in any meaningful way.
Nobody asked for this.