Jason Calacanis on America’s AI Backlash: “They’re Sharpening the Guillotines”
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Why do they want to stop data centers so
much? Why are Americans so opposed to AI
right now? And the perception of AI was
already pre-baked with science fiction,
of course. So, we needed to work to get
past the Skynet Terminator vision. But
Dario told everybody, we're going to
lose our jobs. Elon said, you're not
going to have to work. It was a more
world positive view, but he did say
that. Saying that kind of stuff
to people who have to work for a living
and who have no savings and who are
watching administration after
administration not be able to tame
inflation, whether they're Democrats or
Republicans, and then watching the
minimum wage just stay the way it is and
barely move while the stock market hits
records, and then all of us all of us
being tech executives get super rich,
and you wonder why
people now are embracing socialism and
why you have Abbott and Shapiro saying,
you know what? I have to be
anti-capitalistic.
I have to be a D-cell. I have to
decelerate. It's because they were
supposed to see some relief, and they
haven't. And then what do people do who
do not feel they have any power? They
look to find power. And if you look at
what's happened, they are sharpening the
guillotines. And I you know, that
metaphor should wake people up. We need
to wake up and look at why are people so
upset? It's because they can't survive.
They're having a hard time with the
affordability, with their wages. And
what two things can they do? They can
vote for socialists, and they can
actually stop data centers. And that's
what this is about.
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This video examines the underlying socioeconomic frustrations driving the recent public backlash against AI and data centers. It suggests that deep-seated economic inequality, stagnant wages, and a lack of belief in the system are causing people to adopt anti-capitalistic sentiments and actively oppose technological infrastructure.
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