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The 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.is)
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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile they can't figure out why not enough ~~consumers~~ ~~wage slaves~~ children are born

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Don't worry. They'll "solve" the problem with abortion bans.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Don't even get them started on the right to vote.

[–] itistime@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Interviewer: Margaret Atwood, what are your thoughts on the trend in the US?

Atwood: I’m Canadian

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People have already "solved" that problem by simply giving up on sex. We are headed into Japan territory.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Without immigration, our population would collapse. Our birthrate is 1.64 per woman. Japan's is 1.2. The replacement rate is 2. It's just too damn expensive to have kids, put a roof over our heads, and retire. Meanwhile the fed just funnels more money to the rich. No wonder the workers can't maintain the population: we're starving and the government is giving all the food to the rich.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago

To then discover people are so glued to their phone filled to the brim with anger inducing engagement, they don't have any energy left over to meet people or even do the deed.