You voted for running the country like a business, you get businesses in your back yard.
A business is under no obligation to ensure that employees in underperforming departments get the star treatment. If agriculture-oriented rural towns generated as much money as grifting the stock market with AI does they’d be treated accordingly. As it is they’re a cost center and will be neglected or cut entirely.
That’s not how a country is usually run but for a business it’s very much on par.
They voted for this.
Generally I agree with this sentiment, but did either American party campaign for AI data centers and/or technological deregulation in 2024? I suspect Trump may have, but I kind of doubt it. I always thought the Dems were the ones who wanted to push the tech industry. Now I think both of them do (maybe different companies/industries but they both wanna cash those checks).
Since Reagan it has been one of the Republican pillars that businesses should have no regulations, taxes, or standards of any kind. They will of course break from that position when they see an opportunity to screw over a minority or attack a business they don’t like for some reason, but otherwise yes ask your average Republican if some business regulation (or regulatory agency) should be repealed and they almost always say yes.
The biggest surprise at the moment is actually that many of the voters are turning against the data centers, although I suspect the majority of them would still oppose any kind of regulatory attempt to block them.
Specific quote:
“American companies have long taken advantage of these trends. A leaked report from the 1980s, which was prepared for a waste-management company seeking a community for “locally undesirable land use,” listed the “least resistant personality profile” as: “longtime residents of small towns in the South or Midwest,” “conservative,” “Republican” and “advocates of the free market.””
Seems to me this is happening in red states a whole lot more. But what do I know.
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“American companies have long taken advantage of these trends. A leaked report from the 1980s, which was prepared for a waste-management company seeking a community for “locally undesirable land use,” listed the “least resistant personality profile” as: “longtime residents of small towns in the South or Midwest,” “conservative,” “Republican” and “advocates of the free market.””
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If rural America weren’t such terrible people, I’d have pity.
Good thing rural data centers are only used for mass surveillance and data-collection on rural Americans.
As long as we keep the urbanized AI data centers out of the cities, we should be good.
You should consider this a win. All the channels of news and “truth” they’re seeing are hijacked. The fact that this concern is cutting through is a ray of hope that maybe they’ll start to see some of the other horrible crap going on around them and in part based on their voting decisions.
-“rural American” that’s constantly looking around going “wake up! You’re being lied to!”
Guess they will now learn the true meaning of FAFO
They are worried the cost of bottles of vodka and oily rags will cut into their free spending money.
Thought the grifter in chief was doing that.
