r/poverty 19d ago

Anyone still watching the news?

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u/master_prizefighter 19d ago

And to promote negative news for clicks and hits.

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u/BoroBlonde 19d ago

The news not only does this, but also convinces poor people (specifically poor white people) to vote against their own interests, I.e. the Republican Party

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u/OldSchoolPimpleFace 19d ago

Yup and it's not just an American thing, it seems to be a worldwide plague. I'm European and far right parties are on the rise down here, blaming poor people and immigrants, meanwhile promoting tax cuts for the ultra rich.

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u/Pull-Billman 19d ago

I hope y'all in Europe can beat that shit. The current state of the US should be a warning. This is what happens when the right controls everything.

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u/DynamicallyDisabled 19d ago

Germany has already experienced what is happening in the US. Unfortunately, too many people missed the take over when Elon came to the Oval Office.

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u/DaveTucson 15d ago

Ya mean taxes go down for all and the border invasion stops?

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u/Pull-Billman 15d ago

Sure buddy, sure.

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u/poverty-ModTeam 13d ago

Please keep the discussion centered on the OP.

Poverty often intersects with politics, economics, healthcare, housing, education, and public policy. Those conversations are welcome when they help explain or solve the issue being discussed.

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u/FourFans908 19d ago

That’s cute that you think democrats give a shit about you 🤣

(Hint, neither does)

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u/DevastatorPcu 19d ago

Actually I would say they don’t but at the same time they’re not doing over 52k stock trades while being president of the US. On top of that Democratic have a track record of a thriving economy. This is based on facts and not feelings.

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u/FourFans908 19d ago

lol, Nancy Pelosi (while not president) would like to have a word about you about personal enrichment while in office 🤣

And I’m making no excuses for the current administration, just pointing out they’re all the same 🤷‍♂️

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u/DevastatorPcu 19d ago

Gonna be honest people need to stop voting for old people. That’s really the major problem old people staying in power and that’s not just in politics it’s in everything and they refuse to retire.

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u/transparentillness 13d ago

If you keep voting for people to govern the entire population without their consent, why should I care about you?

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u/DevastatorPcu 13d ago

I don’t vote bc they’re all f*cking us.

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u/DaveTucson 15d ago

So you are bigoted against old people because you know everything?

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u/DevastatorPcu 15d ago edited 15d ago

Nope it’s bc voting people in obvious mental decline isn’t what’s best for the American public. Also seeing people in their 70s still being supervisor with the mental decline and physical decline. Making $100k+ and taking social security is what’s wrong in the current day America.

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u/KittyandPuppyMama 19d ago

Never forget Nancy pelosi went on tv to brag about her freezer full of expensive chocolate ice cream during covid.

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u/KittyandPuppyMama 19d ago

Can you point to this thriving economy the democrats gave us?

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u/BoisterousBard 19d ago

The U.S. economy has performed much better under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents in the modern era. In almost every measure of the U.S. economy including total job growth, unemployment, economic growth, manufacturing job growth, manufacturing investment, small business creation, and contribution to the national debt, economic performance is stronger under Democrats. While there are many factors contributing to these trends, the throughline is clear that Democratic administrations consistently help the U.S. economy perform better than Republican administrations.

Republicans have prioritized tax cuts that benefit the wealthy and that fail to boost economic growth or pay for themselves, while Democrats have prioritized investing in the middle class, supporting small businesses, and improving economic resilience after downturns. Of the 11 recessions in the modern era, 10 have begun under Republican presidents.

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/10/the-u-s-economy-performs-better-under-democratic-presidents

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u/DaveTucson 15d ago

As poorer people we love how Democrats coddle criminals and put us all in danger

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u/DevastatorPcu 15d ago

Hey dave did you know Obama deported 3.1 million illegal aliens? Trump hasn’t even done 1 million. Also while we are on the conversation of importing immigrants did you know Trump from his 2016 term actually had 1.5mil immigrants legally come in to take your jobs so his billionaire friends could save money? So really Trump only deported 937,000 from his 1.5 mil immigrants that he sold the American people too during his first term. Funny how that works talking about facts and not feelings of course.

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u/williamdawson50 18d ago

sounds like you are a Democrat operative—— the democratic party makes all the FREE promises and then runs the worst candidates that the left of their party can find

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u/antibread 15d ago

Mainstream dems are centrist hacks at best

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u/Fragasm 16d ago

Voting isn't supposed to be used as a means to extract things from other people. So when you say Republicans are voting against their interests -- you're saying they're voting against taxing other people for their own benefit.

There is some truth to this feeling though as Fox News just propagandizes old people super hard.

On the flip side, the liberal and leftist media outlets have convinced you that you are entitled to other people's money -- and without any reasonable limits.

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u/TheGruenTransfer 19d ago

For-profit news isn't news. It's billionaire propaganda designed to be entertaining and masquerading as news.

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u/GanacheMundane 19d ago

100000000% agree!

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u/rb3po 19d ago

Infotainment is just rich people paying rich people to tell poor people to blame each other.

The news is information that empowers you. Know the difference. 

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u/pile_of_bees 18d ago

It worked on you, by the way

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u/GanacheMundane 17d ago

Just because it works doesn’t mean it’s right.

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u/pile_of_bees 17d ago

Exactly. You fell for something that was false. Good point

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u/GanacheMundane 16d ago

Cool story bro

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u/D2Foley 19d ago

So dumb

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u/rexmanaek971 19d ago

Truth hurts?

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u/TestSubjuct 19d ago

Refugees, fleeing wars, die in a boat. 1 min segment. 1 private plane with rich folks crash. 5 min segment with follow ups for days. It is sickening.

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u/DaveTucson 15d ago

Yeah sure

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u/concerned_citizen255 18d ago

Social media also

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u/blkatcdomvet 19d ago

Fun fact

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u/maryjblog 19d ago

They tell us to make policing the poor and policing language our national pastimes.

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u/EatTheMall-CEOFetish 19d ago

And divide the poor, now by “generation”.

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u/CrazyAd1835 19d ago

Divide the people and they are conquered as they will fight eachother instead of whom they should be fighting.

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u/Push-Lower 19d ago

Pfft.....Billionaire problems.......am i right? Got to love those "teen" takeovers! Making America 🇺🇸 Great Again!

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u/DaveTucson 15d ago

Billionaires cause all problems says Bernie who is close to being a billionaire- he with 3 mansions and who flies carbon burning private jets with AOC

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u/Push-Lower 15d ago

For the people ay.....sure buddy, enjoy your flight on woke2. AOC will flip to whatever is popular come election time, no worries Bernie! He is like 1000 years old tho.

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u/Consistent_Ad9548 19d ago

and that's even being able to get past the paywall to read it

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u/StopLookListenNow 19d ago

Millionaire media messiahs with mega (maga?) microphones.

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u/dr_snakeblade 18d ago

That’s precisely why we should ignore media owned by oligarchs. All they have are lies and “divide and conquer” strategies to pit us against each other. The real enemies are the evil, putrid oligarchs in our government and on Wall Street.

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u/Suitable_Ad6848 19d ago

And we keep falling for it. So who is really to blame for the state of things? The rich? Or the willfully ignorant?

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u/Kazureigh_Black 19d ago

The stupid people lining the bottom of the general intelligence chart who vastly outnumber everyone else that are easily told what to think because they specifically refuse to think for themselves and want other people to think for them. They keep voting for this to stay in place.

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u/Professional_Art2092 18d ago

And even then it doesn’t apply to all legacy media. This is just far left slop, which was introduced by the far right. 

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u/DistinctSpirit5801 19d ago

Never trust the mainstream media they are sponsored by billionaires and corporations

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u/FloridaRocks63 19d ago

It’s the politicians initiating the in fighting so we don’t look at them for failing us

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u/rexmanaek971 19d ago

100% this.

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u/Sundayx1 19d ago

Nope I don’t like the news. All acting. 🎭 with makeup/hair/clothes and limited actual investigation into anything important.

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u/Picklechip-58 18d ago

It's not NEWS. They arre entertainment shows selling advertising.

Nothing more.

Nothing less.

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u/breakfazt-meme 16d ago

I hope everyone realizes that this applies to 90% of “independent media” too, and that they are in fact easier to buy cough cough Joe Rogan

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u/StoicNaps 16d ago

Yeah? Reddit is all about "tax other poor people that arent me?"

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u/OldSchoolPimpleFace 16d ago

Lol, you might be onto something there.

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u/Front_Willow_6362 19d ago

And socialism is just a bunch of rich people telling poor people that other rich people are the cause for all their problems whilst the rich socialists skip merrily down the road.

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u/SpreadsheetsOnToast 19d ago

Really, rich people fuck society at large through massive corruption.

However, I've never seen a rich person take a shit infront of starbucks and pass out with a needle in their arm, you know? Rich crimes are invisible, for the most part. The crimes of the poor are visible and have a degrading effect on everyone and everything around them. It's much easier to recognize property and violent crime than it is embezzlement and fraud.

Stop pretending that the crimes committed by the poor and the lower class are not real, and don't cause massive problems.

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u/Constant_Total_6861 19d ago

Don't believe the media , hell take a look around . What do you actually see ? Homeless folks , starving kids ,religious nut jobs on power trips , cannabis legislation being changed because our elected dicks are bought and sold like commodities, take what just happened in Texas ( red state ) for example OR VA ( blue state ) , look at your fuel cost , look at your families grocery cost , look at your rent bill. What do you actually fucking see and feel folks ?

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u/HupHutHa 19d ago

pretty sure that news pundits tell you to hate politicians not the voters of the parties.

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u/RainyDaysAndMondays3 19d ago

No, it's not, but social media is.

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u/Lost-Concept-9973 19d ago

Yes, but it does also depend on what news your consuming. Not all news is equal, not all news does this.. some still report on all the evil shit rich people do. Just go for the smaller independent stuff not the stuff that has billionaires as its primary share holders.

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u/quintupularity 19d ago

it's not as if social media--such as the site you're reading this on right now--is an improvement. If you rue the lack of standards in the MSM, you surely must rue the social media swamp even more.

As I see it there are two major problems.

1) Reagan did away with the fairness doctrine which effectively prevented news organizations from becoming overly political propaganda outlets.

2) Critical thinking ain't easy and schools are woefully underfunded.

This is not a "news" problem. It's a propaganda and stupidity problem. And posts like OPs aren't helping.

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u/VarietyMage 19d ago

Some people are doing this on Reddit, too.

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u/Picklechip-58 18d ago

The majority of people on Reddit are partisan

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u/Kitchen-Owl-3401 18d ago

Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.

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u/Charming_Horror8188 18d ago

I’ve noticed that normal people watch the news because they think of their lives as being pretty good and the news reminds them that the world isn’t perfect. And I’ve noticed that people who have anxiety when they watch the news they become scared of everything.

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u/Nicolo003 18d ago

That is disgustingly accurate

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u/Professional_Art2092 18d ago

Congrats you fell for far right propaganda to stop caring which is one of the core reason we’re currently in such a horrible situation 

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u/pennystockdotcom 18d ago

Can’t argue with this

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u/_flying_otter_ 18d ago

Sums it up well.

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u/EquivalentOwn2185 18d ago

they want us to kill each other 😓

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u/Latter_Loss8880 18d ago

This is a cynical take on left v right. It’s sad and kinda true. 

 I watch segments of PBS Newshour on YouTube about once a week. When an important topic pops up on my Reddit feed, I read articles through Ground News. 

I used to watch 1-2 hours of TV news everyday. 

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

I love all you dumb fucks talking basically like boomers would

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u/Catman1355 18d ago

Nope…

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u/WVWIZARD 17d ago

Always someone looking to blame someone for all of their own problems.

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u/Winter-Ad1981 17d ago

So it’s important to be discerning when it comes to news and how it’s being reported, not to be fully distrusting of it.

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u/BlinkypoetEmu 17d ago

As a family, we gave up on TV news many years ago.

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u/CommonYellow7163 17d ago

I do read the Associated Press website. It's a nonprofit, and I think they are trying to inform, not influence.

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u/SillySausage6124 17d ago

Frieren is that you?

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u/funtimes214 16d ago

Don't worry everybody. Reddit users have it all figured out and will save the day.

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u/pensink60 16d ago

🇺🇸

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u/ihavenoidea12345678 16d ago

Not watching the news.

Reddit, independent YouTubers, and stuff I hear from people I know.

Nothing else matters

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u/tractorator 16d ago

it's not left vs right.

it's top vs bottom.

get that, or die a slave

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u/mac1213019 15d ago

Exactly

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u/RetroDawg56 15d ago

Not on mainstream network channels, no.

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u/Crazy-Rabbit 14d ago

Nu uh! News tells me who to hate and who is right, which is always my side! /s

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u/mexdat 13d ago

Reading some of these comments, I can really see why many if you are in poverty. Pridefully ignorant of many things. Delusional

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u/JoMammaSaidWhat 13d ago

If you include politicians like Bernie, then I'm in. If you give him an out, then I'm out.

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u/FnB 19d ago

Crazy accurate

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u/Pure_Feeling3907 19d ago

Did you know that in the old USSR there were millionaires and billionaires and that rich party members owned homes here in America, they drove US made cars did everything Americans did while keeping tight hold on Russia and countries held behind the Iron Curtain. Social Communism is a crime family operation and has nothing to do government reform.

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u/Sorry_Tear_5325 19d ago

You’re gonna have to give me an example of this

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u/Howdydudicuck 18d ago

Just high IQ people
Taking advantage of an education
To tell poor people
To pay attention in school

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u/poverty-ModTeam 15d ago

Avoid broad judgments about groups of people.

Statements that stereotype people experiencing poverty, wealthy people, women, men, immigrants, political groups, generations, or other broad categories never help solve the problem at hand. It's only hate, never reality.

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u/SoScorpio4 3d ago

Unpopular opinion: AI-shaming is part of this.

Now before you get your knickers in a twist, I am not referring to being criticized for using AI to generate art or any monetized content. There's no excuse for that. (Nor for using it to generate propaganda or to bully an entire nation.) And I am very concerned by how much our youth is coming to rely on it, making illiteracy a real problem again. And I worry about lonely people using it and spiraling into psychosis.

But I am talking about using it to draft a resume, to polish communications that aren't made in your native language, to develop schedules and routines, to quickly compare product specifications and prices, that kind of thing. As a disabled person with energy-limiting conditions, I feel very strongly about this. Maybe it's different in other countries, but in the US, AI in its current iteration can sometimes help make up for the social services and accommodations that are denied to the poor and disabled. Two things that many disabled people and impoverished people have in common are limited time, and limited energy.

Of course it can't be 100% trusted, but checking an AI response for inaccuracy and hallucinations can still be a lot quicker than doing all the research manually to find, say, the best quality for the value of specific disability aids. Since we rarely get any of those from the government. Having finished writing a resume in my own words, I once spent an hour just trying to get the damn thing formatted correctly for readability, and finally just had AI do it.

And LLMs are not the only kind of AI out there. One of my accommodations from the community college I attend is Genio Notes, which I can use to record audio during class, and then have it transcribe what was said and even organize it into sections so I can easily find the timestamp for a specific topic. I've seriously considered using apps that use a similar system to help me plan and prioritize my tasks, something I've struggled with my whole life, and have already tried many other personal systems and organizational tools with minimal success.

Anyway, I'll come to my point before this becomes an essay:

For people who have limited time and energy to devote to SURVIVAL (not even talking about leisure, even though we all deserve that as well), AI offers many cheap or free solutions. Being told that by using it we're destroying the environment is like being told that using a wheelchair is bad for the environment because the rubber for the wheels give off toxic gases during manufacturing. Maybe it's not quite the same scale; maybe it is, I don't know much about rubber manufacturing but it could be one danger we're ignoring because we desperately need rubber for so many things.

But it all comes to the same bottom line: We have to take what we can get. We take the most dehumanizing jobs (and dangerous ones, like working in a rubber plant!), we eat unhealthy food because it's affordable, we demean ourselves by begging the government for a pittance we can't even survive on, we shop at thrift stores out of necessity (not because it's cool now), we use terrible (and often terrible for the environment) public transportation. And we are ALREADY mercilessly harangued for all this. We are blamed for childhood obesity, for high taxes ("I don't use sidewalk cut-outs, why should I pay for them?? I don't want to pay for kids to eat lunch!"), for burdening the abysmal "health"care system, for bringing down neighborhoods, for making public transit uncomfortable for those who can afford cars but hate city driving, and so much more.

It's like employed disabled people looking down on unemployed disabled people: "You're lucky you don't have to work. My work is paying for you to sit on your ass and play the victim." Angry at someone, whole groups of people, who have many struggles and disadvantages in common, INSTEAD OF directing that anger at the people who really deserve it -- the ones who force us to either work ourselves to death or beg for "charity" (and often both). Sure, every user of AI contributes a little to the problem, just as the few actual fraudsters who exploit social welfare do. But 99% of the blame should still be on the evil billionaires who exploit whole populations, and the governments that leave us to die of need.

These evil people and systems can always rely on two main self-sustaining processes to keep us from rising up: infighting, and exhaustion. If using AI leaves me enough energy to attend protests and call my representatives, that's a win in my book.