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by drzaiusapelord 4370 days ago
>Imagine it's 1940 or 1950 and someone starts asking "Who is going to own the computers?"

You can manipulate bits and bytes at home, great, but these robots are industrial producers that make things, are subject to regulations, etc. This isn't a question of who is going to own a dishwashing robot. Its a question of who is going to own the means of production.

The funny thing is that your answer is antiquated. What computer do I really own? My android phone that is controlled by google, managed by a telecom carrier, and all of my data at google. Or all the servers I work with that are VM's at some cloud provider? We're not landlords anymore. We're renters.

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> We're not landlords anymore. We're renters.

This is why I like Plex instead of Netflix. Netflix has more movies after all, for a subscription.