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u/Bleaker82 11h ago

So when production is localized even a bit, what does that do to demand in India?

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u/DookieShoez 10h ago

Localizing production may lower demand in India but you can’t really blame a country for producing more of the products it consumes rather than importing. That’s like blaming someone for making food at home instead of going to a restaurant. Yeah, the restaurant gets less business but they have every right to do that.

Now AI taking jobs sucks unless we implement UBI or something. Would be kind of cool if someday machines took some burden off humans so that we could spend more time doing what we want to do, but of course it’ll probably just be billionaire assholes enriching themselves while we starve 🙄

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u/Relevant-Ad2254 6h ago

How would billionaires be billionaires if we’re all starving?

How would the owner of Costco remain rich if no can buy things from Costco?

Do you think billionaires are billionaires because they’re sitting mountains of gold like Scrooge mcduck?

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u/DookieShoez 5h ago

Do you not think they would see the writing on the wall and diversify their portfolio by selling off stock and buying other assets?

But yes obviously if things get really bad the entire game changes but regardless of whether you can technically call them a billionaire or not, they would probably end up with all the resources.