Do Americans really not have any other options than John Deere? I hear constant complaints online about the company but when my parents used to farm I don't remember them ever having any of their equipment.
I remember my father used to complain more about the quad bike being hard to repair than any of the farming equipment (I seem to remember it being really hard to find new tires for it).
Would they though? I think if anything most industries and economies would be booming, more disposable income results in more people buying stuff. This results in more profitable businesses and thus more taxes are collected. More taxes being available to the government means better public services.
Even the banks would benefit, loans would be more stable since the delinquency rate would be much lower if everyone had better pay.
The only people who would lose out would be the idiot day traders who rely on uncertainty and quite a lot of luck in order to make any money. In a more stable global economy businesses would be guaranteed to make money and so there would be no cheap deals that could be made.
I keep being told by experts that AGI is inevitable. Yet all I ever see is people constantly go on about LLMs, so I don't know what to think. Are they lying, is it all just a bubble that's going to burst or is there actually some utility there that is being hidden by the LLM hype? If so, can't we just use the actual AI rather than these other things.
The problem is that we absolutely can build a sustainable society on our own. We've had the blueprints forever, the Romans worked this out centuries ago, the problem is that there's always some power seeking prick who messes it up. So we gave up trying to build a fair society and just went with feudalism and then capitalism instead.
I didn't even get the internet until I was 20 and then it was crappy dial-up that used to take 45 minutes to download a single picture.
Na, porn was in magazines and on VHS. I don't think I really got to see any of that until I was 15, but that was because it was easier to limit access back then.
I bet they're really pissed off with ubisoft right now. They basically started this whole movement by being so egregious with The Crew. Less than a month before they shut the servers down the game was still on sale for the full price that it had launched with.
Granted it was shut down because it was the most mediocre game ever made but that still isn't an excuse.
Now AI upscale it. Then blur it again. Let's see how many times we can do this before it changes the text.