• positiveWHAT@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I think the intention is to get the profits of automation to the people when more jobs are inevitably automated.

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      9 hours ago

      It is, but unintended consequences.

      With this, then we couldn’t afford Sam Altman to experience failure because he will drag folks down with him. So the companies invested become too big to fall, and the still private leadership gets to run things however they wish knowing the government will cover for any mistakes.

      It’s bad enough as the government will panic about retirement accounts when they falter, this exacerbates it.

      It’s a risky form of private-public partnership, with a lot of ways the company can privatize rewards but socialize the risk.

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        4 hours ago

        it actually creates symetry for risk/reward, but it does incentivize giving skynet contracts with argument that people get 50% of the proceeds from skynet abuse.

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          18 minutes ago

          Doesn’t really create symmetry for risk/reward, because, for example, the corporate leadership decides how much to pay out to investors versus how much they spend including a lot of their own compensation.

          So they can carve out the reward as they see fit, but if things go bad they can lean on the public investment as leverage to get bailouts.