There's a specific kind of lie that tech bosses tell: the "premature truth." That's a lie that they excuse by saying it'll come true soon: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/04/its-not-a-lie/#its-a-premature-truth If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/12/starvation-wages/#anything-that-cant-go-on-forever 1/