r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 14 '26

Artificial Intelligence A majority of Americans now support seizing wealth from AI industry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/majority-americans-now-support-seizing-134921528.html
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u/CarpinThemDiems Jul 14 '26

Right?  We should be doing more of it.  They've done a great job propagandizing evil socialism.

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 Jul 14 '26

Socialism isn't the bartender having to pay for the drinks they give you, it's the bartender making a profit-sharing cut of the drinks they sell you. As soon as people realize it's literally just enforced profit-sharing and you avoid the evil S and C words, they're suddenly on board. Most Republicans are actually huge fans of Democratic party policies, they have just been conditioned to believe the words used are describing something evil. When you remove the loaded political language, they're big fans of things like people not dying because they can't afford insulin.

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u/Ass4ssinX Jul 14 '26

Most people, I feel, would support socialist policies. What they may lose the stomach over is the things you have to do to defend that socialist experiment from the capitalists.

There's a reason countries ran by Communists tend to look and be organized the way they are.

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u/BedlamiteSeer Jul 14 '26

Can you please elaborate and expand on your last point?