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Ask HN: Are You Hopeful for the Future?

A Hacker News user expresses despair about the future, claiming AI owners are exploiting workers and that AI surveillance is expanding, while politicians aligned with tech interests fail to act. The post warns of job automation, loss of healthcare, and starvation as inevitable outcomes.

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How hopeful are you for the future? For me, everything seems bleak. The AI owners and their parasitic nature show no sign of stopping — they're grinding working people to dust, relegating us to a state of penury. AI spy glasses and cameras are multiplying in every inch of this land, collecting anything and everything to identify you, whether to sell you something or to feed some policing action.

Politicians, kept loyal by their share of the loot these AI parasites are stealing from working people, aren't interested in doing anything about it — their interests and the parasites' are perfectly in sync. Jobs aside, there's also this ambient dread haunting the atmosphere, slithering through the camp like a snake at night. Your job will be automated, you will lose your healthcare, and eventually you'll be left to your fate to starve — that's the only advertisement I hear. What is your state?

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868277](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868277)

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