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Fiendish Thingy

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17. Can they clean houses or pick strawberries?

Reply to Stargazer99 (Reply #14)

Thu Oct 9, 2025, 01:41 PM

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Can they have babies?

Who makes the robots? Other robots?

Billionaires wealth would soon evaporate if they could only buy and sell to each other, which is the premise of the OP- that they want to kill the rest of us off.

Who would build and run their yachts?

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It strikes me that the wealthy want to kill off the majority of the poor and middleclass [View all] Stargazer99 Thursday OP

AI is not "human looking robots" Fiendish Thingy Thursday #1

What a relief! CivicGrief Thursday #2

Check the Japanese sites there are human female robots that can function like women Stargazer99 Thursday #14

Can they clean houses or pick strawberries? Fiendish Thingy Thursday #17

There are billions of human beings living outside the US of A. Justice matters. Thursday #18

And we will just sit there and accept our fate? Nt Fiendish Thingy Thursday #26

No one accused them of having foresight. CivicGrief Thursday #24

They're not all as dumb as Trump and Musk. Nt Fiendish Thingy Thursday #27

Didn't one of them say the rest of us are like NPC's to them? durablend Thursday #3

I am Skeptical of That as a Cold-blooded Reality. Perhaps Many of Them Will Be Able to Sustain The Roux Comes First Thursday #4

They don't want nickels and dimes. Irish_Dem Thursday #8

Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale) said the same from a post here a few days ago underpants Thursday #5

The Objectivists have called the working Class and Poor "Useless Eaters" for decades. haele Thursday #6

Fascist miller advocates for a return of slavery from within the WH. Justice matters. Thursday #19

I totally agree crazylikafox Thursday #7

The mega rich AI, Cryptocurrency, IT, oligarchs, & fossil fuel shits view us as useless eaters .... Trump is just Botany Thursday #25

Destroy Social Security, Medicare, and all healthcare. Irish_Dem Thursday #9

Most wealthy need our lowly spending on food, utilities, housing, entertainment, healthcare, etc., to stay wealthy. Silent Type Thursday #10

Perhaps that is where cryptocurrency comes into the equation AZJonnie Thursday #11

Actually Avalon Sparks Thursday #22

Parents never read to them "The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg." eShirl Thursday #12

Not anybody wealthy that I ever met. DFW Thursday #13

The US population amounts to about what, 4 percent of the world's? Justice matters. Thursday #21

Hmmmm Avalon Sparks Thursday #23

Some, the Accelerationist movement. Thiel, Musk, and others. blm Thursday #15

The comfort of the rich depends on an ample supply of the poor. Voltaire Ping Tung Thursday #16

So how will they make their money if they kill all the people they've been leaching off? Gimpyknee Thursday #20

They have trillions of dollars durablend Thursday #28

That's never stopped them. They always want more. Gimpyknee Thursday #29