“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.”
Poverty in America is nothing compared to poverty in Africa, or most parts of the world.
Ironic how you say I’m the one speaking from a position of privilege.
On the children starving in the US, it’s usually because parents are struggling to pay rent. Rent goes up when they make more money. The system is designed to keep people barely alive so they’re in no position to change it. Just work and pay bills till you literally can’t do it anymore.
I think the US should have universal healthcare, so I’m not sure what your point on cancer is.
I’m not going to argue the person worth $9k in the US should make more money just so it can be funneled to landlords and executives. I’m going to argue landlords and executives should be making less profit so those with less money can be catered to as well. The only way they’ll make less if they’re forced to, and that involves spreading out away from the most expensive places to live. Not “making more money.” All the latter does is drive up inflation, which is what we’re seeing now.
You clearly are.
And it doesn’t matter what America should have. We are talking about America as it is now. And, based on your logic, anyone in America today with a long term or chronic disease that can’t afford to pay for it should just die. Their family has no right to complain that they can’t afford care.
They also have no right to complain, according to you, if they can’t afford electricity or plumbing.
If you can’t afford electricity, plumbing or healthcare, how is your life different from people living in poverty in Africa? What is the effective difference? Other than, according to you, having no right to complain.