Yes. Modernity made it a lot easier to create wealth out of thin air. However most of the worlds lowest class have it better in pretty much every metric than that family.

Correct; “average” and average can be different things.

Punishment? Huh, didn’t know the tax man doesn’t want me to make money.

Ai has no ficks to give to people who are not ready.

Forget ads, Microsofts “free trial” wasn’t free or a trial. You’d be charged for a product that would show up on your bank statement as free. Short answer; no one in a position of power gives a fuck.

You lot still dealing with COVID?

E: apologies if my simple question offends.

Butter dispensers at the cinema to soak their popcorn is my favourite. Like it’s fucking tomato sauce on a hotdog or something!

Automation is the big deal. Drones have cameras so humans can make a (hopefully) informed disision to strike or not. When (read; now) the drone doesn’t need a camera because it can make the call without a human in the loop, we have removed a vital bottleneck.

The only thing that stopped WWI from being total war is that when we wipped out an entire generation, we needed time to grow more troops. If autonomous weapons being manufactured autonomously by autonomously constructed factories… whoever controled the drones could of conquered the world.