AI is a fascist loss leader.
Like cheap chicken at a grocery store, it brings in the rubes & achieves other aims, like subscribers.
https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/how-costco-turns-loss-leaders-into-an-art-form-and-why-your-business-might-want-to-copy-them/91270572
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-ai-utility-electricity-water-openai-2026-3
It's achieving other oligarchic goals.
Just as Koch kept awful rideshare companies like Uber & Lyfft afloat for years, to torpedo public transit projects.
https://jacobin.com/2019/08/uber-koch-brothers-david-charles-rideshare-public-transit
https://jacobin.com/2022/07/uber-files-leak-global-war-workers-lobbying
1/
Nicole Parsons
npub174…tckk8
2026-04-24 10:17:28 CEST
in reply to nevent1q…86y0
Author Public Key
npub174qg2x9llqm450jdx76qtptqz6nc7te76tmhh0sexeeehrrejmus3tckk8Published at
2026-04-24 10:17:28 CESTEvent JSON
{
"id": "578e38af308190d94845e70a7abf55256ed09ff1084557c1edffa79bbbfaaefb",
"pubkey": "f5408518bff8375a3e4d37b405856016a78f2f3ed2f77bbe1936739b8c7996f9",
"created_at": 1777018648,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116458694166529992",
"web"
],
[
"e",
"c2620c244dc7c2f771f55b0f7cedbbd676628ef86578c7c0ce19aab35890c244",
"",
"reply",
"147e63728bd80c13b2ed8ae642a5f30068dfc8249dcb2d2048c9330572db13ec"
],
[
"p",
"82b86ee7e694c3d30703aeccbceecc88bf16e3a3b2b41bccfe70587766d2ba87"
],
[
"p",
"147e63728bd80c13b2ed8ae642a5f30068dfc8249dcb2d2048c9330572db13ec"
],
[
"e",
"fdbb237d9c72be4af3508df63ccd4d9abc200e42576865558e6efb56e7e8ec05",
"",
"root",
"505c52e214eea5a1d344ea4cb8d2923de27bddda4de2277277914bb8a1919a5b"
],
[
"p",
"505c52e214eea5a1d344ea4cb8d2923de27bddda4de2277277914bb8a1919a5b"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116458694166529992",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116458694166529992",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "AI is a fascist loss leader. \n\nLike cheap chicken at a grocery store, it brings in the rubes \u0026 achieves other aims, like subscribers. \nhttps://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/how-costco-turns-loss-leaders-into-an-art-form-and-why-your-business-might-want-to-copy-them/91270572\n\nhttps://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-ai-utility-electricity-water-openai-2026-3\n\nIt's achieving other oligarchic goals.\n\nJust as Koch kept awful rideshare companies like Uber \u0026 Lyfft afloat for years, to torpedo public transit projects. \nhttps://jacobin.com/2019/08/uber-koch-brothers-david-charles-rideshare-public-transit\n\nhttps://jacobin.com/2022/07/uber-files-leak-global-war-workers-lobbying\n\n1/",
"sig": "0dbb03a1d398ef9fa3be0b593249e004a2c2b58bd3e04e35ce40c11b8f04c343589597cc74ea28f4c1fc3a8be3270a9f8e4dd73e93e4e60f624d96eead0701b5"
}