are we there yet?

Whatever.

[are we there yet? @chrisdavis2000]

@SenSanders Hey Bernie, how about a jobs bill to re-train all of us white collar workers that are going to be laid off because of AI. Could be… illuminating.

[Leonarda Jonie Comedy @ILeonardaJonie]

Israel Has Been ROBBING Americans

[are we there yet? @chrisdavis2000]

@mohnader1978 @hippyygoat I’m obsessed at what Bridget Jones thought of the whole exchange.

[Monte Mader @montemader]

I’m actually sick to my stomach. Sick. #deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mo Gawdat spent years inside the machine at Google X.

Now he is saying out loud what the economists will not.

Gawdat: “The very base of capitalism, which is labor arbitrage, to hire you for a dollar and then sell what you make for two, is going to disappear.”

That is not a prediction. That is a coroner’s report on a system that has not stopped breathing yet.

Capitalism was never about innovation. It was about one equation. Buy human time cheap. Sell the output high. Pocket the spread.

Every empire. Every fortune. Every supply chain on Earth was built on that margin.

AI just closed it to zero.

A humanoid robot now costs $9,000. It does not sleep. It does not negotiate. It does not quit. It runs every hour of every day at a quality ceiling no biological worker will ever touch.

When production costs fall to nearly nothing, the entire pricing structure of the global economy falls with it.

But here is what every CEO celebrating margin expansion has not thought through for five minutes.

Gawdat: “Even if you can have all of the productivity gains in the world, by firing people consistently, nobody’s able to buy what you’re making.”

That single sentence should end every strategy meeting on the planet.

Capitalism is a closed loop. You pay workers. Workers become consumers. Consumers buy products. Revenue funds the next payroll.

Cut the worker and you do not just eliminate a cost. You eliminate the customer.

Every company racing to automate headcount out of existence is quietly engineering the death of its own demand.

They are building the most efficient production systems in human history to sell to a population that no longer has income.

50% unemployment is not a recession. It is the demand side of the economy going permanently dark.

You cannot push infinite supply into zero purchasing power. The math does not care about your earnings call.

Gawdat: “Wealth is going to have very little meaning for most of us in a few years’ time.”

This is where it turns on the people who think they are winning.

If production approaches zero cost, scarcity begins to dissolve. And scarcity is the only reason money holds value in the first place.

The billionaire class is stockpiling a currency that is quietly losing its reason to exist.

Gawdat: “So the entire capitalist model has to be rethought.”

He is right. And nobody in power is doing the rethinking.

Every board meeting about efficiency is a conversation about dismantling the very economic engine that made the board meeting possible.

The question was never whether AI could produce enough.

It was whether capitalism could survive its own success.

The machine does not just replace the worker. It erases the consumer.

And a system that can produce everything but sell nothing is not an economy.

It is a machine that perfected itself into extinction.

[are we there yet? @chrisdavis2000]

So we're on the hook with Iran while Israel uses the distraction to Gaza Lebanon. Great. Our government is either stupid as sh*t or completely compromised. Probably both.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is wiping out entire civilian homes in the village of Taybeh in South Lebanon — a village that stood for over 7,000 years.

Not a battlefield.
Not a military base.

Homes.

An ancient village erased in real time.

[are we there yet? @chrisdavis2000]

@JCFights Been there.

[are we there yet? @chrisdavis2000]

Holy shit!

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

One of the most widely shared videos worldwide 💔🇵🇸

Israel did this.

[are we there yet? @chrisdavis2000]

@MetabolicFactor apple

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

Drop everything you're doing and watch this now. RIGHT NOW.

Ari K and Schuyler Brown, I have no idea who you 2 beautiful bastards are, but you're instant legends. Hopefully someone in the comments knows and tags.

[Rania @umyaznemo]

This is America!

[are we there yet? @chrisdavis2000]

@AFpost I imagine this very scenario every day.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

If there was one clip I would want every American to listen to today it would be this one. It’s a 10 minute essential message that is long overdue.

This is not catastrophising, it’s a recognition of the societal threat it represents. This not about using ChatGPT to write a report or an email, this is about the intersection between AI and robotics and that’s the accelerant on the fire that is AI.

I have worked with it and I have seen first hand what it can do in terms of accelerating workflow and application development. It is formidable technology and we are way past the point at which the genie can be put back in the bottle.

I wrote about it at length last year and in the short intervening period since, it has advanced beyond comprehension. As Bernie points out here, the threat to jobs is existential, but what’s important to recognise is that is the jobs most at risk are not at the bottom of the economic food chain, they are middle and upper middle class jobs.

From accountants to bankers to research scientists to lawyers to programmers, a whole raft of middle and upper management roles are about to quickly become extinct.

I believe we face the threat of an economic extinction event. Just as in 1928 when the wealth gap was not dissimilar to what it is today, it took an economic depression and a World War to drive an economic reset that also reset the wealth gap.

These are dangerous times and unless we regulate this technology, society itself is facing an extinction event of its own. AI renders human labour acceptable collateral damage in this revolution. Declining population will shift from being a liability to an asset.

The oligarchs believe they have insulated themselves against the human catastrophe that will follow. They believe they are on the right side of a winner takes all strategy and they might be right, but I suspect they are more likely wrong, because the fly in the ointment they are ignoring is CHINA.

Xi is just sitting back while the West sets itself on fire. They are approaching the AI revolution in a totally different way. They will win because they don’t have to worry about the shareholder class. They don’t plan in 2 year election cycles, they plan in 10 and 25 year cycles.

While the US was obsessed with large language models, China has integrated AI into manufacturing automation which is central to their wealth engine. They don’t have to build infrastructure, they’ve already done it. They don’t need to invest in supply chain infrastructure because the Belt and Road initiative is already in place.

They own deep port and road infrastructure across Europe Africa and Latin America and have a distribution pipeline ready to go. They are electrifying their economy to remove reliance on fossil fuel imports. They are adding capacity to their energy grid faster than any nation on earth.

In 2025 alone they added 543 GW with solar accounting for almost 50%. They have now surpassed 1,000 GW in solar power and given they manufacture 92% of the world’s solar modules they have ZERO supply chain issues as they march on to cheap energy when the U.S. is running away from renewable energy.

They also added a further 80 GW of wind power. If you’re looking for a broader energy comparison, The capacity added by China since the end of 2021 already exceeds the entire power system of the United States.

The critical point here is that the top two global powers are approaching the AI revolution from two opposite angles. The Chinese are seeking to integrate it into society, at the same time the oligarchs are seeking to replace society. This is why China will win and become the number one global economy.

The world is at an inflection point and I’m afraid greed will prove to be the downfall of American imperial ambition. Will the rich survive? Of course they will, they always do. As for everyone else, I’m afraid you’re on your own unless they are stopped. My advice is to learn Chinese.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/153rEX8dVQ

[😼 @dutchessprim]

Live look at the plan for Iran

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

MAGA realizing they were scammed by Trump.

[mrredpillz jokaqarmy @JOKAQARMY1]

Its all been AIPAC of Lies. 💯

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is a winning message for Democrats and @jamestalarico deserved to win the Texas Senate primary tonight with this message.

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

Why is our media missing the story? Are they all allowing Netanyahu to dictate their reporting, just like our government lets him shape our foreign policy? We fight their wars while still not providing our people with healthcare, feeding our children, or educating our young people.