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China wants you to cheer for the robots taking your job | E2329

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This is the master plan. Instead of telling everybody, you're gonna lose your jobs. Sam Alman's doing UBI studies, the Chinese say, let us entertain you. You have to entertain people, you have to make them root for the robots. Before the robots take everyone's jobs and then murder everybody. This is the key. This is a psyops. This has nothing to do with capitalism. These are murder. But

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