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    We don’t need citizens to be on their best behavior, we need millionaires and billionaires to be on their best behavior.

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        Actually there are good millionaires & billionaires (I’m being serious)

        It’s just that, they’re no longer Millionaires & Billionaires anymore (Or Alive)

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrappings of a cigarette Packet – [Big Brother was] everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed – no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
      – George Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-Four

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        And even those few cubic centimeters will only be yours as long as we don’t have the tech yet to access that. Once that tech is available, it’s an inevitability that that too will be theirs

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      Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.

      — Brian Cantrill

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        Oracle, the official company of “Look, we’re developer friendly now, our stuff is open source and free to use! Oh, right, you’ve activated my trap card, now pay 10k per every employee of your company because you used our proprietary JDK mwhahahahaha”

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    Larry Ellison says that North Korea and China are great countries to live in

    You first, and then we’ll lock the door behind you, you mother fucker

    Pardon my French, but these scum of the earth should rot in hell as far as I am concerned. They are a literal cancer for this world

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        Желание, Ржавый, Семнадцать, Рассвет, Печь, Девять, Добросердечный, Возвращение на родину, Один, Товарный вагон.

        Edit: I’m Finnish, not russian, lol. Fuck 'em. I just thought we’d do it correctly if we’re going to go that way.

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          Google translate got me the below but I would not know how accurate this is.

          Тоска. Ржавый. Семнадцать. Рассвет. Печь. Девять. Доброжелательный. Возвращение домой. Один. Грузовой вагон.

          Toska. Rzhavyy. Semnadtsat’. Rassvet. Pech’. Devyat’. Dobrozhelatel’nyy. Vozvrashcheniye domoy. Odin. Gruzovoy vagon.

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    Sure, it could, but should it? No of course not, a safe “utopian” society through force is dystopian and still unsafe (just now the danger is sanctioned, don’t run afoul of Lord AI) in reality.

    I’ll take the possibility of getting shot by some dickhead over AI overlords watching my every move any day of the week.

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    There’s a different solution that can ensure billionaires will be on their best behavior.

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      Right, because billionaires will just fall over and concede - they won’t have their government lapdogs impose draconian security and lockdown mentality on our whole society. Yes indeed, the action movie fantasy that makes you feel badass is a sure-fire winner.

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    Leave it to the associopathic billionaires to take a look at 1984 and decide to use it as an instruction book.