US senator appears at Manhattan rally alongside New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, who cautioned that AI is ‘coming for human jobs’

Bernie Sanders has sounded an alarm over the US economy, warning “the worst is yet to come” unless workers overcome a “ruling class” of billionaires.

The US senator spoke at a rally in Manhattan on Sunday alongside Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, who cautioned that artificial intelligence was “coming for human jobs” amid mounting concern over the technology’s rapid development.

As the pair headlined the launch of Union Now, a new drive to boost labor unions across the US, Sanders issued a bleak assessment of the consequences if workers fail to organize against billionaires like Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Jeff Bezos, executive chair of Amazon; and Donald Trump, the US president.

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    Bernie Sanders knows what he’s talking about, and I agree with him; for example, he wants to eliminate The FED, which is the cause of a lot of our economical problems and wealth inequality.

    I’d go into details, but there’s a mod or two here who thinks that “bubble burst, buy low, inflation, bubble burst, buy low, inflation” could be a conspiracy theory or something (no joke). So, just look at the history of The Fed, what it was founded to do, and what it has done, instead.

    You won’t hear much about this in HuffPo or FOX or any other media conglomerate for obvious reasons.

    Perhaps check out who has been on the board for the fed, and who they worked for before and after their term? It’s very interesting. This is public information.

    https://www.federalreserve.gov/

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-bank-executives-federal-reserve

    But don’t tell anybody, it’s a BIG SECRET

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    We need organization, this is all an exercise in futility without it. Organization in citizenry, on our own forums. Fediverse could work, but not like any that are set up now, we need a new one, with a better set up for what we need.

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      Why do you think they made Palantir? It’s to target organizers. They already tested their methods. Target the lead organizers and make them go away, before anyone even hears about them if possible.

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        I know it, and this is just the latest iteration of targeting any organization of the people. We can go around these guys though, don’t think we can’t. The decentralized nature of the fediverse could be unstoppable as of now. We are more capable than they are, when we act in concert.

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    They’re eager to eliminate the only means of resource acquisition we were left with, employment, the one we all depend on to stay alive, and don’t really think very much about what we’ll do when mass unemployment destroys lives and kills people.

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      They’re already doing this systemically on a massive scale.

      I’ve lost 2/3rds of my department at my job to AI. It’s amazing how bad things are getting… The content the AI spits out is horrific, but CEO’s and executives are firing people left and right anyway, drunk on the bonuses they are likely receiving as a result.

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    Hey asshole with the gun thinking of shooting up a school or grocery store,you could actually be a hero if you target billionaires.

    Plus, I’m told when they are shot coins explode out of them. Free coins!!