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Fiendish Thingy

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17. Can they clean houses or pick strawberries?

Reply to Stargazer99 (Reply #14)

Thu Oct 9, 2025, 01:41 PM

Oct 9

Can they have babies?

Who makes the robots? Other robots?

Billionaires wealth would soon evaporate if they could only buy and sell to each other, which is the premise of the OP- that they want to kill the rest of us off.

Who would build and run their yachts?

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It strikes me that the wealthy want to kill off the majority of the poor and middleclass [View all] Stargazer99 Oct 9 OP

AI is not "human looking robots" Fiendish Thingy Oct 9 #1

What a relief! CivicGrief Oct 9 #2

Check the Japanese sites there are human female robots that can function like women Stargazer99 Oct 9 #14

Can they clean houses or pick strawberries? Fiendish Thingy Oct 9 #17

There are billions of human beings living outside the US of A. Justice matters. Oct 9 #18

And we will just sit there and accept our fate? Nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 9 #26

No one accused them of having foresight. CivicGrief Oct 9 #24

They're not all as dumb as Trump and Musk. Nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 9 #27

Didn't one of them say the rest of us are like NPC's to them? durablend Oct 9 #3

I am Skeptical of That as a Cold-blooded Reality. Perhaps Many of Them Will Be Able to Sustain The Roux Comes First Oct 9 #4

They don't want nickels and dimes. Irish_Dem Oct 9 #8

Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale) said the same from a post here a few days ago underpants Oct 9 #5

The Objectivists have called the working Class and Poor "Useless Eaters" for decades. haele Oct 9 #6

Fascist miller advocates for a return of slavery from within the WH. Justice matters. Oct 9 #19

I totally agree crazylikafox Oct 9 #7

The mega rich AI, Cryptocurrency, IT, oligarchs, & fossil fuel shits view us as useless eaters .... Trump is just Botany Oct 9 #25

Destroy Social Security, Medicare, and all healthcare. Irish_Dem Oct 9 #9

Most wealthy need our lowly spending on food, utilities, housing, entertainment, healthcare, etc., to stay wealthy. Silent Type Oct 9 #10

Perhaps that is where cryptocurrency comes into the equation AZJonnie Oct 9 #11

Actually Avalon Sparks Oct 9 #22

Parents never read to them "The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg." eShirl Oct 9 #12

Not anybody wealthy that I ever met. DFW Oct 9 #13

The US population amounts to about what, 4 percent of the world's? Justice matters. Oct 9 #21

Hmmmm Avalon Sparks Oct 9 #23

Some, the Accelerationist movement. Thiel, Musk, and others. blm Oct 9 #15

The comfort of the rich depends on an ample supply of the poor. Voltaire Ping Tung Oct 9 #16

So how will they make their money if they kill all the people they've been leaching off? Gimpyknee Oct 9 #20

They have trillions of dollars durablend Oct 9 #28

That's never stopped them. They always want more. Gimpyknee Oct 9 #29