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by TacticalCoder 17 days ago
I don't know about that but finding excuses for the scum of this earth is certainly not a solution.

Take Europe for example: nobody dies of hunger in Europe. And yet there are plenty of thieves. People stealing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of EUR aren't doing it to "feed their families".

Think of the situation today. Think of the victims today. Instead of thinking of tomorrow's hypothetical situation where supposedly all the honest fathers out of work would join the crime syndicate, think of today's victims.

Projecting your own insecurity about the future to excuse scummy behavior by the scum of this earth is of no help.

There are people, right now, who have a roof. Who have a family. And who are fucking scums stealing the hard earned money of others because they choosed the easy life of crime.

Zero tolerance for such motherfuckers. I care about the victims and you should too.
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technothrasher 17 days ago
> Take Europe for example: nobody dies of hunger in Europe.

Nobody? France, as the most extreme example, has a rate of 1.52 per 100K. That's about a thousand people a year. That is certainly a small percentage of the population, but it isn't "nobody".

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutrit...

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ceejayoz 17 days ago
> That's about a thousand people a year.

Eh, maybe.

Some of those may be hospice-style scenarios, where starvation is technically the cause of death at times. https://www.ccjm.org/content/ccjom/70/6/548.full.pdf

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revolvingthrow 17 days ago
Not sure I understand the argument.

Obviously there are people who help themselves to others' money if given the chance no matter the circumstances. But if the circumstances change so that people DO start going hungry or homeless, which is a rather obvious side effect of AI-but-not-AGI maximalism brightly espoused by our overlords sama and amodei of the "I can’t wait to make half the knowledge workers worldwide obsolete" variety, the scale of the problem will obviously get worse, as well as the type of people you can get involved if you’re in the international scam market.

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rightbyte 17 days ago
> scum of the earth

> fucking scums

> Zero tolerance for such motherfuckers

Who watches the watchers etc.

We will just end up with some jingoist dude that will go after us instead.

Slow reforms to regulate the banking industry with this "identity theft" nonsense...

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