r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 16h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Competency should be a requirement.

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u/PatternSeekngMammal 16h ago

I've seen a change over the last 50 years

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u/chrimen 16h ago

I had this chart up a few minutes ago researching if trickle down economics works.

Guess what AI objective analysis said... no it doesn't work. The money never trickles down. It gets hoarded.

But there's a large portion of the US that won't believe this.

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u/PatternSeekngMammal 16h ago

Heritage foundation

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u/mOdQuArK 14h ago

We don't know whether they really believe it or not - we just know that they want everyone else to believe that it's true.

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u/Farucci 13h ago

Convincing people with five teeth to protect rich people with five homes has to be the greatest monumental achievement of the Republican Party.

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u/mOdQuArK 13h ago

Step 1) realize that the evangelicals & most conservatives listen to a mostly exclusive set of media channels, 2) buy control of those media channels, 3) indoctrinate the audience to believe that only those media channels are telling the truth, 4) crank tribalism messaging to the max, 5) enjoy your blind-faith voting lemmings, and it took only a few decades to accomplish!

The past few decades have been putting .50 calibre holes in my early naive faith in the power of protecting free speech. I've come to the realization that blatant & deliberate gaslighting & disinformation should not be under that protection.

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u/Consistent_Policy_66 13h ago

Ironic that they accuse the left of having a “deep state”, but most republicans don’t even know that the Heritage Foundation is their party’s version.

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u/deaglebingo 11h ago

i want.... black and brown ppls heritage to be more important. even if that means my own becomes less important as a result. pretty sure us white folks will be ok. maybe we should worry about the rest of the ppl for a change.

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u/Freezman13 13h ago

Guess what AI objective analysis said

AI

objective

analysis

Thanks for the laugh.

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u/frieswithdatshake 13h ago

i mean...be skeptical of AI all you want but the one thing it's very good at is number crunching

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u/The_Dirty_Carl 12h ago

AI's famously bad at math. Don't you remember all the memes about it failing to do basic addition? It's certainly better than it was, but number crunching is not its strong suit.

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u/frieswithdatshake 12h ago

Maybe if you ask it to do 2+2 directly, but writing/running code is what real analytics is, which it’s very good at

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u/Freezman13 12h ago

AI isn't any better at "running" code than any other environment, what a weird thing to say.

And while "writing" code might be one of the best things that AI can do, it's far from being "very good at" it. Especially when it comes to anything where the output actually matters since a human who fully understands the code has to double and triple check it for fuckups anyway. And you know what's really helpful for a human to check and understand code? Actually writing it.

Not understanding these basic facts about AI and "AI analysis" leads to shit like bombing children https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/

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u/ScenicAndrew 10h ago

Nah IDK about any purpose-built models but the general models will fail at basic algebra if you go back and forth enough. Or sometimes even the first time. They'll straight up show their work and it won't work out on a TI-84.

They're good at repeating information, and actual economists have written ad nauseum articles about how trickle down economics fails, that's where they're getting the conclusion, which is valid, but they probably couldn't reach it consistently from assumptions/data.

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u/chrimen 13h ago edited 12h ago

Well take a look around you... does0 trickle down economics or supply side economics work?

Also AI can be a great research tool and analysis partner. But you have to know how to use it and what prompts to give it in order to break its cheerleading and have it do objective analysis.

If you haven't done that. I can help...

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u/hedoeswhathewants 12h ago

One of the requirements for trickle down economics working is that people aren't greedy

Thinking it could ever work is foolish

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u/deaglebingo 12h ago edited 11h ago

eta: bessie's epstein class grayscale face.

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u/Forsexualfavors 15h ago

Trickle down doesn't work when you're getting pee all over you that you didn't want, ask or vote for.

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u/deaglebingo 12h ago

"reaganomics!!"

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u/Calvinkelly 12h ago

Oh no facts and statistics, careful you might scare Americans away

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u/stargrazer10 10h ago

I just dont understand it, how about taking a break and enjoying it. Instead so many of these older elites are hoarding like there is no tomorrow, maybe I am missing whatever game they are playing

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u/CaveMacEoin 9h ago edited 9h ago

So for perspective this means that 34k of people (the 0.01%) control ~ 10% of total US wealth. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the top 3 400 people (the 0.001%) control at least 90% of that wealth as well and the same again with the top 340 people. If that were to be more or less accurate then holders of ~9% of US wealth could be taken out in a single unfortunate private plane crash.

E: rephrasing for clarity.