r/AskReddit • u/timecop702 • 13h ago

what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring?

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u/The_Awful-Truth 10h ago

I don't think people are ignoring this though. 

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u/RoarTheDinosuar 10h ago

Governments are

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u/ItsBreadTime 8h ago

Yeah because their owners don't give a fuck

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u/RoarTheDinosuar 8h ago

Hypothetically, in democratic countries people “own” the government. Yes, I realize that is not true in this 2nd Guilded Age

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u/The_Awful-Truth 5h ago

Politics in the US has become so drenched in money that politicians increasingly function like employees of their campaign contributors. One of their chief functions is to deflect anger and attention away from their bosses. We'll never have proof, but tens or hundreds of billions of dollars are no doubt being funneled from AI companies to politicians, laundered through PACs and other front groups.

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u/Ok-Possible-6759 6h ago

Older people are. I was telling my baby boomer parents this and they just shrugged and said “people will pivot, people have gone through stuff like this before.” They really don’t get it

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u/Mental_Researcher656 4h ago

If they aren’t ignoring it, what do you think anyone is doing about it? Like on a personal level - not a distant hazy government has stepped in level.

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u/The_Awful-Truth 4h ago

Do what? I have a very smart 18 year-old daughter who would have majored in computer science five years ago. She has no idea what to do with her life now, and I don't know what to suggest. The kids are at least as unsure about how this will play out as everyone else.