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      Corporations are there to maximize profits. Not defending them, that’s just what they are.

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        And this is why profits above a certain threshold need to be taxed to oblivion.

        Massive profit cannot be the single goal.

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          Taxation is a bandaid solution. Strong taxation is also not realistic as long as the nation is dependant on the economic growth of their domnestic companies.

          You can’t build a sustainable economy based on a system which has the competition of free agents at its base.

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        Remember when basically all CEOs were espousing how their company was working to make the world a better place? No one even pretends anymore

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    How is that AI related at all and not just an if statement and a couple statistical regressions to find an economically optimal battery percentage to price multiplier?

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      Any time software makes a decision it is apparently considered AI now because that makes for a divisive headline

      if (battery < 15) { cost *= 1.20; }

      LOOK I WROTE AN AI ALL BY MYSELF

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        I’ll pay you 1 billion dollars to integrate that AI into my novel cloud connected toilet paper dispenser!

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      If they build a model which uses charge level as an input to predict the price they’re willing to pay, that would be using AI.

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        It is weird how that makes it worse. Not just we knew there was a possibility you could be desperate so we raised the price, but more <whispers>we know exactly how desperate you are…

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      We had “enterprise” lessons of sort. One of the topics was “brand message to make the world a better place”. I was 15yo back then, but even as a stupid kid I saw it as enormous bullshit