Billionaires are controlling people thoughts

https://reddthat.com/post/50797884

No, they do not as thats the stuff they use. The level of education ist just bad and it is only getting worse. People do not read books at all and i would be hard pressed to find someone who likes to challenge mainstream narratives.

So how i can expect from the people that are propagandized 24/7 to care about a single issue like billionaires owning the media outlets? In fact we can not, because most people are so overwhelmed by the amount of superficial information that they consume, there js no space to think about action.

In fact most comfort themselves with the idea that there is nothing one possibly can do against all the decline being clearly visible. And that is exactly where you want your population. Downtrodden and compliant. People taking action will be at best prortrayed as idealists that won’t change anything and at worst as somehow affiliated with hate or even terror(for example Palestine Action).

Whenever I try to sit down and explain some of these nuances to family members/coworkers/… they almost all default to “yeah, but what about all those foreigners though”. It’s a fucking record stuck on repeat. All pretense of logical thought has left these people, and I’ve given up on trying to kindle that spark in anyone else.
Hell yeah it’s the foreigners! A billionaire South African owns Twitter and a billionaire Australian owns Fox News!
That’s the entire point of Palantir.
And of LLM’s.
what do LLMs have to do with this? /genq
They can (and will) be used to subtly manipulate facts and feelings, and to rewrite history if left unchallenged. We’re moving towards a future where access to information will be limited, not unlike ingsoc.

We’re moving towards a future where access to information will be limited, not unlike ingsoc.

If you were born before the 90s, this is kind of how it was. The rich controlled tv, newspapers, magazines, etc. The only people who had access were the people who had access to great libraries for the old stuff. If you wanted breaking news, that was controlled.

Except it was a lot more rich people, most nowhere near as wealthy as those today. The consolidation which has been allowed since then is absurd.
True, there was a lot more diversity in what the greeds wanted said.
I’m bloody broke and own quokk.au
Are you broke because you own quokk.au or you own quokk.au because you are broke?
That’s great! The poors are running things like Lemmy which means they’re more susceptible to bribery. Only the rich can protect us from corruption!!1!! ONE!
Been a while since I saw the typed out “one” in the exclamation mark string.
It was a typo because I was so excited.
You jest, but I have heard that argument a number of times in the defense of the rich, including one time from a fucking judge when he pardoned some company owner from bribery charges, “He has money, it does not make sense that he would ask for more money”. It’s also a common argument among judges and elected deputies to justify their sky high salaries. Yay, Brazil
Oh I’m well aware. I’ve heard it so many times. I believe it when I was a kid but I laugh at it now.
The problem is that everyone is dumb enough to use these things. I’m not absolutely convinced that Lemmy is significantly better.
The internet used to be an amazing way to share information. Rich people bought it to shut that down.
And worst, all of them have surveillance fetishes
Only because they can’t legally own slaves, so they settle for the “next best thing”, which is total control over their workers
I live paycheck to paycheck and run thelemmy.club so basically Bezos tbh
Who owns Fox these days?

The company is controlled by Lachlan Murdoch via a family trust with 36% voting shares.[12][13] Rupert Murdoch is chairman emeritus, while his son Lachlan Murdoch is chairman and CEO.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation

Murdoch is the 31st richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world according to Forbes magazine.[5] Due to his extensive wealth and influence over media and politics, Murdoch has been described as an oligarch.[6][7][8]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch

Fox Corporation - Wikipedia