Anthropic should learn from those cotton-picking socialists

JuniperMesos

> Their primary worry was the same as everyone’s: labor displacement. And given who was hand-picking cotton at the time, this worry was often expressed as a fear of black indolence. The Daily News editorial asked readers to “Imagine, if you can, 500,000 negroes in Mississippi just now lolling around on cabin galleries or loafing on the streets of the cities and towns while machines are picking cotton.” > “The prospect,” Christian Century magazine explained, “is that with a general introduction of a cotton-picking machine, the South will be overrun with a shifting, irresponsible army of Negro drifters, who will gradually find their way into the north in far greater numbers than at any time in the past.” If the white southerners who wrote these words could see the state of the United States today; and in particular see the number of poor black people in urban areas who have been living in multi-generational welfare dependence since the Great Society policies of the 1960s; and see the amount of murder and other violent crime and disorder committed in the de-facto-segregated parts of cities where these black people live (that we today have many euphemisms for) - I suspect that they would have considered their prediction about "Negro drifters" to have come true.

bzmrgonz

Finally someone said it. They are doing more with less, and it is making us think that the West has a gentleman's agreement with Nvidia. Their special sauce is just obfuscation. If they can do more with less, why can't the west do more with more??