“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation. So if you think that’s a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again.”
They still have more wealth and higher quality of life than the vast majority of people ever to walk to the Earth.
Have you noticed how all of these people always need more money? It’s because the moment they get more, prices go up and they’re right back where they started. All of these happens while children go without food, water, electricity, shelter, and education. These problems will not be solved by doing the same thing we’ve been doing.
The solution isn’t to make more. It’s to spend less. When that becomes sexy, these problems will be solved overnight.