The rule of law protects property rights, contracts, and individuals.

On paper, sure. In practice, most individuals aren’t protected.

Finally, I don’t even know what you mean by “it does not protect human workers.” Protect them from what? Wage theft? Unsafe working conditions? Wrongful termination? Union busting? There are entire bodies of labor law dedicated to protecting workers, even if you believe those protections are insufficient or poorly enforced.

Well, in that case our system is perfect and we should be concerned about the poor techbros’ oppression tools. Lord knows you’re concerned with absolutely nothing else.

They’re getting built and the objections of the people are ignored.

Rule of law protects the inanimate toys of techbros.

It does not protect human workers.

Wage theft impacts millions of actual humans and you’re whining about the rights you think a corporate owned tool of oppression has instead.

You’re stating a position that I never took. I never said I supported AI data centers.

You just handwring about theft from them. But not wage theft.

For one reason.

I explained how the data centers differ from the actual human beings you pretend that you don’t hate.

You can do all the moral finger-pointing you want. The moment you start selectively deciding who is and isn’t a thief is the moment the justice system starts breaking down.

It broke down long ago. You care more about copper in a techbro’s plagiarism machine than you do about all the wage theft ever.

When it’s AI data centers being robbed, suddenly theft is funny, justified, or even worth celebrating. But if the victims were socialist politicians, transgender people, or any other group this community sympathizes with, the reaction would be outrage and demands for justice.

AI data centers aren’t people and are owned by corporations. The trans people and socialist politicians you hate don’t waste obscene amounts of electricity and water. The trans people and socialist politicians you hate don’t store data for surveillance capitalism. Trans people and socialist politicians aren’t a plagiarism machine. Trans people and socialist politicians don’t pollute everything with soulless slop.

One is a tool of oppression. The other is the people being oppressed.

They want too little money.

They would prefer to outlaw manufacturing anything without paying rent seekers.

It’s not vandalism to put a nice opaque piece of cardboard on a solar panel. And no one seems to know how the camera got like that between the time the batteries died and when the technicians found it.

Wasn’t that just the plot of N.U.K.E.E.?

An accessible documented API would be better. A standardized one for all vacuums would be best.