I’m pretty glad I didn’t opt for one of these. I kept thinking about buying on to replace my Nvidia Shield and didn’t pull the trigger.

They assume they can keep the class war going forever and ever. After all, it’s worked so far.

Nah. You still need poors. For everything that the robots can’t do.

The short answer is that the wrong people are seeing decreased birth rates.

Religious and poor? To them that equals easily led under-educated, and easily controlled. They need this subset of the population in order to continue to extract wealth.

Wealth from the private prison system, wealth from the military industrial complex, wealth from the predominantly labor supported industries that prop up energy, housing, transportation, and other blue collar jobs. To them, more poor babies means more essentially slave or low wage labor.

The only value poor people have to the rich elite is to do the labor, make the money (so that the wealthy can take the lions share), and spend what little money they have left so that the wealthy can take most of what’s left by selling baubles.

And everyone else’s. People don’t go elsewhere because the creators they like are on YouTube. Speaking as someone with Peertube and Nebula.