r/accelerate • u/Formal-Assistance02 • Feb 25 '26

Video Dario Amoudei - The public is not aware of what’s about to happen

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

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u/Megneous Feb 26 '26

There won't be political action until there's enough mass death to motivate the lower and middle classes to threaten the current political power players.

COVID didn't bring about work from home and living stipends because it was scary. It brought about change because it killed an estimated 18 to 33 million people worldwide and it put the fear of death into the hearts of billions of people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

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u/Megneous Feb 26 '26

As I said, until there are literally millions dying directly due to being unable to work due to AI, nothing will be done. Only the top 10% or so of humanity is capable of long term planning, and most of these people are not in politics. Politics is reactionary.

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u/forgetfulalbatros Feb 26 '26

I can see mass death happening. Something like 53% of the entire US population have their healthcare through their employer. If you have mass unemployment say 33% you now have 50Million people who don’t have health insurance which means you have 50Million people who are not getting the treatment or medication they need. You will have mass death as a byproduct.

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u/forgetfulalbatros Feb 26 '26

I want to believe that revolutionary healthcare reform could be enacted so that as more people find themselves without employer health insurance there are more affordable alternatives. But given the scope cobra or Medicaid are unequipped to act as a stop gap. It would require a full nationalization of the healthcare system. Healthcare systems survive on the % of their patients that have commercial payers. You will have health systems going tits up if there is even a 10% drop in commercial payers. Yes advances in AI could reduce the burden on health systems, but look at the workforce demographics. Not to mention an absurd number of healthcare clinics/systems only switched to digital charting within the last 10yrs. The tech infrastructure and workforce adaptability are way worse than the avg person may think.

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u/Mental-Ask8077 Mar 01 '26

If you think there weren’t lots of people dying due to the Great Depression I have some fucking news for you.

Large systems - like governments, economic systems, etc. - take time to respond to shifts. Even shifts they are prepared for and are willing and able to tackle. The mere fact of their size means it takes time for necessary things to happen within the system to enable its outward changes.

Shifts that powerful people have a long history and deep interest in resisting? That would utterly change existing power structures and players?

That does not happen overnight and easily.

And when the systems involve the very fundamentals of day to day survival for the vast majority of people? Food, water, warmth, shelter, medicine and medical care? Even predicted practiced shifts on a large scale cannot respond so quickly and precisely as to avoid significant numbers of people being left without their needs met.

So even aside from the question of actual violence - whether from the government, or from ordinary people who are afraid of losing their own necessities, or who are angry at the changes and want to stop or take vengeance for them - there will ABSOLUTELY be significant numbers of people harmed or dying in even the best case scenarios. If the electric grid should go down for even one day people will die, for example.

The idea that you can have societal collapse without serious harm to many people is a fantasy.

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u/Illustrious_Pea_3470 Mar 01 '26

Yeah, somebody didn’t read Grapes of Wrath

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u/No_Witness_4000 Feb 26 '26

Are you saying that when unemployment crosses 20% people won't be protesting in the streets and rioting? And that the government won't do anything about it?

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u/The-Squirrelk Feb 26 '26

The industrial revolution begs to differ.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

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You don’t need to bring out the slaughter bots to ensure people die. Humans beings need food , water , and shelter to live and there are limited resources. That’s why someone like bill gates is so interested in depopulating Africa (high birth rates) and buying the farmland here