Allah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoThe AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.archive.isexternal-linkmessage-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down14
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkThe AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.archive.isAllah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square42linkfedilink
minus-squareSunflier@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-210 days agoImagine how improved things would be if that $700 billion was spent improving the lives of regular people. Or, what if it was just used to pay the debt through taxes? Medicare for all? They clearly had the money and sqandered it.
minus-squarevodka@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days agoSurely it’ll trickle down this time?
minus-squareSunflier@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoAny second now. Maybe just one more tax cut for the rich just to be safe. /s
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-212 days agoMeanwhile they can’t figure out why not enough consumers wage slaves children are born
minus-squareSunflier@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoDon’t worry. They’ll “solve” the problem with abortion bans.
minus-squarepotoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoAnd rolling back things like marital rape laws. And perhaps we were a little hasty allowing women to have their own checking accounts (IN 1974). Etc…
minus-squareSunflier@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoDon’t even get them started on the right to vote.
Imagine how improved things would be if that $700 billion was spent improving the lives of regular people. Or, what if it was just used to pay the debt through taxes? Medicare for all? They clearly had the money and sqandered it.
Surely it’ll trickle down this time?
Any second now. Maybe just one more tax cut for the rich just to be safe.
/s
Meanwhile they can’t figure out why not enough
consumerswage slaveschildren are bornDon’t worry. They’ll “solve” the problem with abortion bans.
And rolling back things like marital rape laws. And perhaps we were a little hasty allowing women to have their own checking accounts (IN 1974). Etc…
Don’t even get them started on the right to vote.