• Etterra
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    108
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    5 days ago

    some poor company’s AI

    Fuck you, those bastards have billions of dollars and zero ethics. Let them eat a great big bucket of salt.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      29
      ·
      5 days ago

      Random philosophical question - If Sam Altman is billions in debt, is he richer, or poorer than us? I know it’s a silly, mostly rhetorical question, but for whatever reason my brain found the idea interesting

      • FosterMolasses@leminal.space
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        54
        ·
        5 days ago

        Elementary, my dear Watson.

        If he faces the consequences for his actions, he is poor. If he has people to do that for him, he is rich.

        Wealth is measured in power and sway in capitalist society, not cash. If you can write a check to a lobbyist to get them to change a bill for you that you never voted on or participated in congress to enact, you are rich.

      • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        19
        ·
        4 days ago

        When you owe hundreds of dollars you have a problem.

        When you owe millions of dollars your creditors have a problem.

        When you owe billions of dollars, society has a problem.

      • flandish@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        5 days ago

        his relationship to capital makes him a different class and therefore able to exploit the working class. bottom line is, if he’s cash poor it doesn’t matter; he’s a piece of trash.

      • Etterra
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 days ago

        I know he’s a bigger asshole than most of us.

        • REDACTED@infosec.pub
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          5 days ago

          I mean, my net worth is above million. Doesn’t mean I have a million or I’m not into debt, or that I can easily afford the rent.

          • dustyData@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            8
            ·
            5 days ago

            Magnitude matters in a system designed to reward rich people. You can’t afford rent, so you will have to settle for sleeping in your car. Altman can’t afford a $100MM house, so he will have to settle for sleeping in a $20MM house.

            Poverty in the end is about lack of access to better conditions of living. Some people are running away from war zones with nothing but the clothes they have on. They are broke, but they’re not “can’t live in the metropolitan area of NY and has to settle for the suburbs” kind of broke.

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 days ago

        Richer, the answer is richer. You can’t become billions of dollars in debt without spending someone else’s money, right? Otherwise what even is the debt?