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>>davidb+(OP)
- Corporate-owned proprietary AIs? Check.

- Monitoring of power consumption for illegal computer usage? Check.

- Superintelligent AIs under tight supervision? Check.

- Bootlegged neural nets passed around on torrenting networks? Check.

- Poverty and homelessness running rampant? Check.

Folks, we're officially living in a cyberpunk dystopia.

>>genera+H4
The current poverty rate in the US is around 11% today vs ~24% in 1960, and the poverty rate for children has dropped even further. There's also been about a 6% decrease in homelessness in the US in the past decade[1].

[1] https://www.security.org/resources/homeless-statistics/

>>ch4s3+m6
It's cliche but metrics aren't the truth. Being in perpetual debt and living a hollow life is a much smaller improvement over being homeless than these percentages imply IMO. I'd be more interested in historical data wrt to overall well being rather than employment/arbitrarily defined poverty lines

EDIT:

To those who are illiterate, notice that I said 'small improvement' rather than 'downright worse'

>>mxkopy+N8
With the rapid rise of fentanyl and closure of asylums, I would argue a bit of debt and having shelter is a significant improvement over homelessness.

>>jb12+2a
I am shocked that someone is arguing that homelessness is better than working and being in debt while housed.

>>ch4s3+Ug
You don't need to be shocked, because nobody said this.

>>stavro+4W
The OP edited their comment to make it less… unusual in its perspective.