Post #4577468 · Elektrine

2026-05-29 13:42 UTC

@laveur@meow.social @atkelar@meow.social The "C" doesn't require you to strive to be the top of the financial world. That's just the current, unsustainable focus. Capitalism kind of requires a healthy consumer base for long-term sustainability, and replacing everyone with AI is not exactly conducive to that. A lot of business decisions are currently focused on just making the next quarterly report look good and not the long term. I don't know how you change that attitude. Not hiring sociopaths for CEOs would be a good starter, but why are they getting placed in these positions in the first place?

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@atkelar@meow.social 2026-05-29 15:26

@alopex@furries.club @laveur@meow.social The problem is in the "uncontrolled" and "unlimited" part of capitalism. It *is* cheaper and more cost effective to treat people like furniture (why else would it be called "human resources") - as long as "the finance sector" is basically "regulating itself", there's no real hope IMHO. The baseline idea that a corporation is *primarily* responsibel to their shareholders is insane; It should be: customer, emplyoees, shareholders, CEO. in descending order of responsibility... And that translates to "provided service", "salery and benefits", "return of investment" and "bonus" accordingly. But since they have defined it backwards, the customers and employees will always end up as a mere "who cares" footnote in the annual reports. And AI is a perfect tool for that. It doesn't care for neither to begin with and you can claim monetary benefit from stuff that nobody understands and that therefore also doesn't even need to be real. It's the money making machine for a few big players, nothing more.

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