Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns Date: 24 Aug 2025 03:36:38 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <1086of0$rgpt$4@dont-email.me> <4f6dnWnSHNY07TX1nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> <108ae2u$1n7i9$6@dont-email.me> <108c398$234t5$4@dont-email.me> <108d3gd$2bja9$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net EdQq+dKAXID4oVnNfuk4XAk7nMA8beQvfSXuzIrM7gmDCjTJV0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8HAnjbbmBvzbQ7XnlmW61T8c7Vo= sha256:bx1i2rveN/VPuR6UFpwOJDKLLvSA9zC5SwxHRX1Hyvs= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72101 On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 20:06:53 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 23/08/2025 19:38, rbowman wrote: >> Robert Taylor and Cabrini-Green are the notorious examples but most of >> the '60s era high rises have been demolished. Most of them were quite >> nice before the tenants moved it. > > It has been noted that high rise flats that sell for millions are well > looked after. High rise flats that are given away free are trashed > immediately. > > You can take the plebs out of the slum but you cant take the slum out of > the plebs Going back to the Roman social classes I would argue what lives in the projects would correspond to the slaves rather than the plebes but we can't have slaves anymore. Marx' lumpenproletariat is a misnomer since the proletariat works for a living and has economic value rather than being a drain on the society..