>>225953I think my preferred seat of power would be one of those quirky savant gazillionaires like Gaben
>erm but aren't you a socialistyeah but until America stops being capitalist you need to play the game to get anywhere. I'd like to have Elon Musk money so I could fund important shit like global warming avoidance or infrastructure and leadership programs in Africa and stuffs. Imagine if someone took the money organizations like AIPAC and the Heritage Foundation have and used it for good instead of defending imperialism and neoliberalism. I'd like to build wind farms and stuff and start companies that would do cool shit that's good for the environment and humanity, and it'd just be cool in general. The solutions for a lot of the problems we have are already there but lack funding
>Plastic is polluting the environment and ending up in the human body!There is (or was) a company in the UK that made plastic out of seaweed instead of petroleum. Biodegradable, no microplastics, safe to eat if you wanted to, iirc. Found out about it maybe a year ago and haven't heard hide or hair of them ever since.
>We're running out of gasoline!There's a process where you can synthesize I think it was literally corn and water into gasoline I heard about a while ago. Regardless of the components the point was it was gasoline you didn't need to mine for, which is obviously amazing for the environment. Sure, it's still dirty energy, but it's a piece of the problem removed. Again, heard about the company once and then never again.
I'd like to see muh heckin frutiger aero solarpunk future come to life but money makes the world go round and I don't think I have the discipline rn to see through any of my ideas. I think all of the above is kinda what Elon was going for but he eventually just turned it into his own autistic obsessions and need to be liked by people so any hope of his companies doing good shit kinda fizzled out after a while. Maybe I'll get there one day and hopefully I won't be a cynical piece of shit by then.
Then again it's kinda like why even try? I think the era of the "rockstar capitalist" is over. What new groundbreaking innovations are there to be made? AI is a bubble plain and simple. I guess you could say the point of an innovation is that nobody sees it coming and maybe I'm not knowledgeable enough about any subject to have my eureka moment, maybe I need to spec into a field more to come up with the next big thing but I truly believe the market is so captured by big corporations rn that there's not much room for new challengers. Example, video games. Video games were a thing in like the 60s or 70s, there was slow and steady progress in the 80s with the arcade market, and then boom, the 90s hit and PC gaming became a widespread thing. Doom dropped and made John Romero and Carmack and all the rest of the guys at id gazillionaires. Who was their competition? Like, IBM? Sierra? The same can be said of someone like Bill Gates. He was one of the first to his market, that being the OS, and while he was in that field, he had the eureka moment of taking basically what Mac was doing and making it more user-friendly, which was why Windows succeeded. The point is, I think we kinda hit the bottom of the well when it comes to (ethical) innovation. Of course, if I wanted to, I could probably sit down for a few weeks and come up with some new wacky way for AI to be used to spy on people, but I don't wanna do that. I wanna be one of the good ones. Idk. Just thinking out loud at this point.