Post AWFN6nvzqbi3HSvKCm by ubiquity75@dair-community.social
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 (DIR) Post #AWFN6nvzqbi3HSvKCm by ubiquity75@dair-community.social
       2023-05-31T18:51:53Z
       
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       During the height of COVID, rental assistance, job assistance, food assistance and more were given to those in need. Student loan payments were paused. The US did not collapse due to these policies. In fact, consumer spending went up.So, given that these things are possible and even economically favorable, one can only conclude that ending them benefits some small but powerful portion of the populace who wants to keep the rest of us under control and in relative, if not full-on, poverty.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWFN6onWdaWlxTy4dk by ubiquity75@dair-community.social
       2023-05-31T18:52:31Z
       
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       The fact that the US government charges interest on student loans is already so offensive and immoral that I don’t even know where to begin.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWFN6pSIC18Zzv2dBQ by ubiquity75@dair-community.social
       2023-06-01T12:06:10Z
       
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       And I keep being asked about job “losses” due to automation, e.g., generative AI, and all I can say is, these are not people being replaced by AI as such, but their work moving to a different place along the same production chain, then cheapened through a process of deskilling that provides the capitalist class with further excuse to underpay and undervalue. But there is no “generative AI” without human labor, so look to find where it is.