Indeed. Can we trade the invaders for dancing bots? What a world…

Well put

Billionaires like Larry Ellison and Elon Musk borrow huge sums of money to support their lifestyle, pledging their stock as collateral. This borrowing is entirely tax-free and comes at good rates. In addition, in recent years the growth in stock value more than compensatesfor any interest that might accrue. To pay the interest and pay back the loans, [they simply borrow again](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272725002178?vi).

Feature set seems like an improvement, honestly. In particular:

Game Center is also disabled.

Bs. This is a marketing campaign at best.

‘Trimmed’

Would be nice to stop using such sanitized language to describe how horrible and unjustifiable these actions are from unfathomably wealthy & tax evading corporations.

Assuming it actually becomes valuable/profitable at some point.

100%. Stock will go up cuz we’ll pay the price. Execs will all get bonuses for their brilliant strategy.

Once upon a time, we could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume and have our own staplers. Alas, no longer.

And indefinite?

Word salad is what ‘generative’ ai does best.

This is an example of billionaires’ solidarity with each other. Got to keep their shitty investment afloat!

It’s the opposite. They are cowards. Any move to do the right thing makes you a target for oh dear leader (who is also a pedophile). So they ignore it because it’s more profitable to avoid falling out with the administration. The only value a corporation has is greed.