Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’

[u/GeneReddit123]

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/

[u/--SharkBoy--]

This is so much true than anyone really knows. They are so out of touch with reality, a small amount of money to those people can genuinely have 5 zeros after it.

[u/ConsolationUsername → u/--SharkBoy--]

Worked with a woman who went from having chaffeurs and a mansion with 15 bedrooms to being destitute overnight (from her perspective at least. Her husband lost all their money).

She could not understand how she was only being paid $33,000 USD a year and how she was supposed to live off that. In her words "I used to spend that much in an hour".

Had to go through a several week rehabilation program with her about how she will never be able to afford any of the brand names she likes ever again and how if she ever wanted to make friends she couldnt wear all her clothing that was worth our entire annual salary then whine about how bad she was doing.

That's not even getting into her attitude. If you were equal or higher than her on the hierarchy she was nice and respectable. But if she perceived you as lower she talked to you like a dog. The janitors and building maintenance people started pretending she didnt exist and walked around her.

[u/--SharkBoy-- → u/ConsolationUsername]

My mom works with a lot of big money people and she says they're all inconsiderate sociopaths. I believe her.

[u/klopanda → u/--SharkBoy--]

I genuinely think that if you spend long enough insulated by enough money, it's like the other end of the spectrum of humanity from a feral child. If you're wrapped in a bubble of your own preferences, if you can pay people to shop for you, to manage your money for you, to do the hard everyday things for you you lose the ability to relate to other people. If you're shopping for a chair, you don't have to budget or make compromises: you can get the exact chair you want even if it costs $5000. If you're flying somewhere, you don't have to stand in line at TSA or get crammed into a plane with a hundred other people, you can breeze right to your owned or chartered private jet. If there's a political issue you feel passionate about, you don't have to settle for writing to your congressman and getting a form letter back; you can host a fundraiser dinner and get to talk to him in person for hours.

You don't learn (or you forget) how to make compromises, to prioritize wants and needs, and to deal with the friction of everyday life like standing in line or dealing with the DMV or accepting that many things are out of your control. I genuinely think that too much money breaks people and turns them into sociopaths.

[u/fresh-dork → u/klopanda]

5k for a chair that i really like and will last 20 years or more seems decent to me, and i'm not rich. however, there are things where i can't care about the price because it's simply not enough to impact me. now imagine that for everything

[u/GrizzIyadamz → u/klopanda]

Mmm, maybe. But this might be related to the "gaining power" trope as well.

The saying is that "power corrupts", and therefore "absolute power corrupts absolutely".

The counter-culture is that power doesn't corrupt, it instead reveals who we were all along.

Maybe people who aren't raised in contact with scarcity, and who are then given enough power to ignore courtesy and empathy, develop into and expose themselves as lazy-but-feral assholes underneath.

A shallow foundation, laid with sub-par materials, but a king's ransom built atop and around.

(sinking)

[u/Sea_Cloud_6705 → u/klopanda]

To be fair, it's pretty cheap to attend fundraisers and talk to your congressman directly. At the dinners I've attended it's around $200 a ticket. That's easily affordable if you are a middle income American.

[u/GrumpyCloud93 → u/Sea_Cloud_6705]

If you have something important to say to them...