Automation Thread: Imagine johnny 5 squashing your job, forever

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Talmonis: Jun 24, 2012; The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

Future jobs prospects; Kapo (prisoner with a position over other prisoners), living furniture, living artwork, living test material, spare parts, soylent green, professional snitch, gladiator, indentured servant, majordomo, bellhop (the rich will not stand for being waited on hand and foot by something they can't degrade, like a machine), butler, maid, courtesean, uterus rental, cuckoldry specialist. More will come to me I'm sure.

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Talmonis: Jun 24, 2012; The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

I am certainly not opposed to things like stronger safety nets and a better more liberal government. I think living and working can suck or be good in any age depending on the society they live in.

The bolded is the hard part. Conservatives aren't going anywhere, and will fight making people able to take care of themselves and family without a job to the death.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2016 21:04

Talmonis: Jun 24, 2012; The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

Inferior Third Season posted:

The other big question will be to determine what incentive those with money and power will have for not letting the economically unnecessary masses starve and die of preventable diseases and exposure to toxic environmental conditions.

Clearly, appealing to their conscience isn't and won't work. The only solution will be for some of the desperate people to finally stop blaming themselves and fighting each other, and go after the ones actually causing all of the needless misery. Guillotines are an excellent investment for poor people.

Guillotines are bougie French poo poo. Machetes are all you need. Hatians had the right idea.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 15:29

Talmonis: Jun 24, 2012; The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

wateroverfire posted:

As more people are permanently unemplyoyed or underemployed the government will take up the slack by expanding social safety nets. A series of "emergency" measures will be rolled out that will tacitly become the status quo so and life will continue. Meanwhile, people will adapt and figure out how to cobble together a living like humans have been doing for the last 100,000 years while experiencing relative abundance of goods that can be priced to their budgets because production has brought costs down even as incomes have fallen.

Like...everyone looks at the wages vs productivity graph linked earlier and expresses HORROR and OUTRAGE but the reality is that except for a few categories of goods (housing, college, health care), almost anything you can name that existed when the graphs diverged is much cheaper and better in 2016. Even in those categories where prices have gone up, quality-adjusted prices paint a more nuanced picture.

Republicans will not allow this. The sane ones have been mostly driven from the party during the primaries. Barring a few outliers, the Tea Party ultra conservatives will scream "Bootstraps!" until the moment they're all engulfed in the flames of a burning capitol building.

Talmonis fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Dec 2, 2016

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