If you want to sell a product or a religion you have to SHOW the product, not just tell us to buy it. Churches quote the New Testament and then viciously reject lonely and poor people. In 2020 the Democrats talked “resistance” and then lethally assisted Trump’s torture chamber, continuing it for two years after Trump got bored. Politicians talk justice and then refuse to punish criminals.
Here’s a perfect example of telling without showing in the anti-AI movement. Corbin Trent is calling attention to the parallel between offshoring blue-collar industry and offhumaning white-collar work. It’s a strong parallel.
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Detroit went from 1.8 million people to roughly 630,000. The city lost more than a million people. Entire neighborhoods abandoned. The crack epidemic turned whole sections into a war zone. 80,000 buildings left empty. In St. Louis, where the factories closed and the mills went quiet, whole neighborhoods now resemble what the Alliance for American Manufacturing called “a bombed-out war zone, with few vestiges of their former glory.” In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. The birthplace of the American middle class went bankrupt.
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True. I saw the same thing in Oklahoma. From 1920 to 1970, Ponca and Enid had a strong middle class thanks to petroleum. Even the Depression wasn’t bad there. After 1980, the bankers and environmental genocidists killed the refineries and moved the offices and research labs to Houston.
After making this strong point, Trent tells us that the same devastation is coming for white-collar jobs.
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I know how fast this is moving because I’m living it. I’m starting a PAC called A Fight Worth Having. I was quoted $65,000 a year by a company called Snapstream to record and monitor four TV stations at once. I decided to see if I could do it with AI and four cable accounts. Turns out I could. The same thing happened when I needed an email system, a research hub, a social media monitoring operation. AI is building things for hundreds of dollars that would have cost hundreds of thousands. That’s not a prediction. That was Tuesday.
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Trent isn’t just a random complainer like me, he has money and influence. He’s able to hire people and he was ready to hire people. Instead, he blew up his whole argument by CHOOSING to hire the machine instead of people. He’s telling us to fight Altman while he’s working for Altman.
Fuck off, dude.
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