You all are making good points. The overall picture seems to be that our economy is dependent on greedy corporations that make us disposable. Not sustainable in the long run, because us people are the economy unless they decide to stop counting us somehow. It is times like these that make me say that the Amish are right.
At least they are really intentional about what goes into their economic and societal system, especially with technology. They also have the benefit of observing the effect of technology on their neighbors. The Amish have no problem using a computer for taxes, but they refuse to use cars. If they would have adopted the car, they would be literally farther apart and make themselves more isolated from each other like we are. On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 7:38 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > AI can be a REALLY powerful tool, but it is not the savior to make all > things technology great. But for research and monotonous tasks and > prototyping, it has shown to be a huge timesaver in the hands of > someone who knows the underlying process/data they are working on. > > And businesses are already seeing how AI is not actually helping but > hurting their workflow and reverting at least partially from AI-centric > work. > > My concern is the random dumping of PII into the AI databases without > understanding how to secure that data. The MCP servers connect > infrastructure to an AI without understanding how to secure that access and > the data they just fed to the AI. > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 9:14 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2026-03-09 15:40, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> > Here’s my current take on things: >> >> Interesting take on things!! All of our problems come down to greed. >> >> So Phoenix has a pending water shortage... add tech layoffs,,, add >> return to office... Yikes!! >> >> >> >> > I think the French Revolution is a great indication of what might well >> > happen — the billionaires will get the guilllitine and their wealth >> > will be distributed to everybody they have been stealing from over the >> > past 50 years to accrue their wealth. >> > >> > At some point, the inabilty for a significant portion of the population >> > to make a living wage will catch up to politicians and they’re going to >> > pay dearly for it. >> > >> > When it takes three people making minimum wage to afford to live in a >> > decent home and just get by, while the average home price is $500k and >> > rising, and politicans think anybody who can’t live on minimumw wage is >> > an immigrant who’s here illegally and need to be rounded-up and become >> > a ward of the state with no due-process rights, we’re in for a pretty >> > ugly recokening. >> > >> > A housing crash is is just part of it. That will take the banks down, >> > along with the entire economy. >> > >> > -David Schwartz >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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