Invest in AI tech stock and buy yourself several butler robots to do your bidding. Modern solutions require modern problems.

Botters just make every day items more accessible if you think about it.

The insanely rich people in the D2 community historically were dupers or people who spent way too much real cash on the game.
But thats like almost every community with real trading markets. Exploit or drop real cash is king.

You could say finding loopholes and exploits make money in the real world?

look into how the Rothschild's made their fortunes after the Battle of Waterloo. We have families hoarding the wealth of entire countries that have been for hundreds of years. It is very similar to how some older whales made their d2 millions by taking advantage of the various exploits over the years.

Babylonian Money Magic = irl duping

its not nearly as true as you think. it probably solves the simplest of jobs, thats about it.

Ai will never replace me, i make my money by investing, some of it in ai.
The new capital gains tax changes in my country however hurt

Any job that does not require hands on skill is subject to displacement from AI. And the USA is trying to lead the charge. This is a great opportunity for business that have reached the end of exercising outsourcing to cling to life by removing staff. Even my job at risk, getting prepped to sit for the masters electrician exam as plan B when AI displaced engineering firms.

That being said, business leaders are out of their depth in regards to bringing AI into their processes. Even the best AI tooling leaves a lot to be desired for solving complex problems beyond contrived corpus and anecdotes it trained on. Have experimented with the better models with high parameters counts to do things like setup a model for a solver. Thing just loops and spits garbage. Making a to-do list UI, easy peezy. Optimizing minimum cost flow across multi commodity network not so good.


The part that no one talked about with AI. The inversion is the scientific method in relation to critical thinking. With AI, the scientist constantly has to work backwards. Starting from some sketchy AI conclusion and working back to verify it holds up. Will humans be able to from a hypothesis and break new ground being trained in this way?



Also, I think US going to be beat in the datacenters effort while simultaneously ruining many local communities. Most will be obsolete upon site being operational at the speed US constructs. *Pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the land" comes to mind. Yay for being first

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Jun 2 2026 04:46am

I recall about 65% of the user base vanishing in a day around December 2017 during the last big ban wave on d2lod. Was one of the best ladders in decades, both with community and economy. Botters ruin an economy in record time when in large enough ranks. Only way to compete was to mill the first few days, farm classic rares, or take the black. With 65% of the base botting... makes it way harder to compete legit.

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Jun 2 2026 05:00am

In its current state, but again, that would just simply be head in the sand, ignore the past evolution of technology we dismissed. The difference is in the past we dismissed without consideration for job creation. AI proves to be different in combination with where robotics are headed in the next 50 years, we are not seeing new creation, its automating itself.

Again, in its current state, its poor, needs significant QC or more human direction and correction than its worth. But that is now and were talking our child and grandchildren's future.


And on the other-hand you have significant outsourcing that is also going to obliterate future prospects. Finance, Accounting & Assurance, Insurance, IT, etc. it's all being outsourced. That's been happening in the past decade, but quietly. I can recall the Big 4 slowly starting to use India and the Philippines back in 2015 and now its blatant. Shut down Western offices and re-invest in India. They just announce it outright. The issue then becomes, how does a new university grad get experience. Yes there;s still positions, and smaller and mid-size that have not outsourced level 1s and 2s but there's significantly less positions now than new entrants. New graduates have the highest unemployment rate in decades. And if they can find something, they will probably be half useless by the time they hit management with many of their fundamental tasks being outsourced.

Future employment is in a real poor space in my opinion and short sightedness on this I think is going to have some big ramifications that will only exacerbate the already out of control wealth gap.

This post was edited by SBD on Jun 2 2026 07:52am

I can confirm I started doing W9 work in finance and accounting while living overseas for American companies. They got the benefit of paying me lower wages and no health insurance/benefits, I got the benefit of higher buying power in a foreign country while working remotely

Next shoe to drop is AI being overlayed into autonomous robotics. Once a humanoid robot comes to your house and can replace your busted pipe or can get on a huge tree and chop it down in a manner that consider surrounding risks, etc it's game over.

I don't see this happening for decades though.