I am immediately aware of how uncomfortable this makes people…so, I try not to do it very often.

Don’t forget duct tape.

Because most of their big money donors are also on the list.

White privilege.

Why would losing money, “consolidate power for the GOP”? The only people that matter to the GOP are the ones that stand to lose money. Their interests come first. The peasants will do as they’re told, regardless.

Why would they take a loss, when they can just make their customers pay for it instead?

Because the point isn’t to actually “fix” anything.

No. Unfortunately, they don’t. But, they SHOULD!

If AI can replace so many people that there aren’t jobs for them all, wouldn’t that also mean AI is producing enough to sustain those people, jobs or not?

Unfortunately, that isn’t what’s happening. AI isn’t “producing” anything that people need to survive. It’s just replacing people. We aren’t seeing any net gains to society that would be able to support so many people no longer being needed in the workforce.

If they were training AI to produce food, build housing or anything that people actually need more of right now, I would say you are absolutely correct to assume that people would be just fine with this transition. But that’s not what they’re using AI for.

Optimistically, AI could and definitely should be used for those things…and the logical conclusion would be to implement a form of UBI so that we can all benefit from this. But do you honestly see that happening?

I don’t. And I think that’s what OP is also seeing. We aren’t ready, as a species, to make that transition yet. There isn’t even the slightest intention on behalf of our current leadership, of providing for an entire population of jobless people. They will ultimately be left to fend for themselves. And as it stands right now, society isn’t equipped to function with that kind of excess population.

It’s not necessary about their “value” to society. People need to eat in order to survive. That means having a way of supporting themselves. Having no way of supporting themselves means a lot of people are going to die.

I’d say that’s a net negative to society.

And the problem runs deeper than “retraining” or “upskilling”. With the emergence of technologies that replace human workers…there will simply be a massive excess of unemployed workers hitting the market. Period. Skills or not. Where are they going to work, when there are now ten people applying for every available job?

This is why you can’t have rational conversations with Americans.

A flashlight still lights up the whole room, even if it’s just pointed at one wall. It’s not like half the room is totally dark, while the other half is totally bright.

Orbital habitats with rotational gravity.

Don’t forget that it’d be nighttime after a certain distance, because light can only travel so far distance before it disappears.

Fake nails.

Cheese.

As usual, this doesn’t actually make any sense. I genuinely wonder if Trump understands anything people around him are even talking about…or if all of his interactions with others, are just a series of Charlie Brown adults "mwa-mwa"ing at him while he struggles to pay attention.

“Outside” works. So does “the sky”. “It” can also represent “today”, or “right now”.