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5. I was told by a very wealthy wealth manager that there were too many people on the earth.
Fri May 22, 2026, 09:14 AM
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He conveyed this in the same hushed tone Mr. McGuire delivered advice to Benjamin Braddock... "plastics." Feeding the masses and curing cancer will just remove population inhibitors. The oligarchs in charge will cure their own cancer - thank you, not yours. The same assholes that are breathlessly pushing AI were perfectly fine with Trump killing USAID which was actually preventing death. There are emails to Epstein by at least one academic opining that climate change should take care of human population growth. Unlike the Chinese open source AI models, ours are built wastefully (on purpose) to consume more "tokens." What US AI will do is usher in a surveillance state like you never imagined. Unless you are rich or a useful slave there will no place for you here. MRNA vaccines hold tremendous promise - but that didn't stop Trump et al. from defunding federal funding for it. So, in case I haven't made it clear, the super rich tech bros driving this shit don't give a flying fuck about your better world - except for themselves. If I have a cockroach problem do I leave food out for them? The plan ain't what you think it is.

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