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The technocrats always fail. They can cause incredible destruction on the way, but they always fail. There is a reason the archetypal villain is the mastermind and not the hero.

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Having worked in IT for 40 years I can tell you that the people that do the technical work since the "remote control" technology was created, were let go from well paying, satisfying jobs to scramble and instead, work sweatshop level hours for some giant bemouth. (Working at Twitter is not the norm)

EVERY time there's a way to use technology to reduce the labor cost and or swallow up a competitor is has been done.

Finally I can assure you that today's level of competence of technology, barring the "claims" of ChatGPT (all I hear are claims...it makes business plans AND codes the work for the week and the code "works". I'm calling BS) ---- is JUNK.

Unreliable junk.

PS how about the "quality" of todays alleged "Customer Support" from a company? We've gone from actual humans that answer the phone to uncooperative press 1 for this 2 for that (no Zero for operator) and then you're on the phone with someone in another country or not...but they're all reading from scripts. Big companies, IRS, you name it. The "auto answer" phone system was the worst thing ever.

Meanwhile people in the midwestern states resorted to Meth Labs due to no work...a book was written on this.

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