I agree with everything you said apart from the last bit. “even rich people can be idiots” implies that they are less likely to be idiots than your average Joe.

You’re assuming that jobs are allocated to people/AI based on merit or competence or some other logical metric.

Just like the correlation between the cost of a product and it’s quality, these used to be true, but have become increasingly decoupled or even inversely correlated as marketing and sales tactics (or more simply, propoganda) have become more and more effective.

Edit : my bad, I didn’t read your entire comment properly. Yeah, I think companies that hire people and only use AI sparingly will survive better. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see the majority of the global economy to collapse beforehand though

Yeah that’s true

Yeah it is insane how many of them have no higher education, or conversely simply got a PhD and have never worked in industry before

I mean, yes, but not nearly as much

Don’t worry buddy, I get it. I feel the same way about USA

This is an incredibly frustrating part of my work with startups. I do economic assessments for climate tech, and if it doesn’t work on paper then you can be damn sure it won’t magically start working in the real world. There are millions of reasons a startup might fail and very few that even give a chance for success (big VC success, not just normal profitablity or survival).

In summary I agree it’s a massive lottery, but it drives me crazy how much investment goes to lottery tickets that don’t even have a legitimate chance of success.

I mean, you COULD just have a massive membrane area. They won’t, cause that’d be crazy, but you could.

I have no problems with anything you say - as a vegetarian, Id also like to be able to distinguish between products and ensure Im getting plant based stuff.

However, you should keep in mind that this is not the actual intention of the meat industry pushing for this. Theyre just trying to fuck with the competition.

Accidentally eating a vegetable, you poor thing!