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xerxus posted:Most people have just stopped buying the bullshit I think multiple decades of the "go to college and get a degree and you're set for life" lie has people realizing that unionization and solidarity is the only way to have any kind of middle class in this country.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:As rich and powerful as they are, they still have people they answer to. The CEOs need to be able to say they won so that that is the focus, rather than for instance the loss of $500m in one year when it could have been spread over ten. The people they answer to are the shareholders and I am gonna go out on a limb here and assume that shareholders in general are anti-union since big bad unions do things like cost money and decrease profits from constantly going up up up
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Sep 14, 2023 23:02
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The end result of AI is people being fired, and anyone who thinks otherwise is drinking the tech bro Kool Aid. It's not a matter of if, it's when.
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Sep 26, 2023 22:41
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ashpanash posted:You could say that about all technology. The end result of replacing horses with cars is that a lot of horse trainers and horse poo poo cleaners lost their jobs. Some jobs opened up in terms of making the new horseless carriages and laying asphalt, among other things. The Trump chuds scream that shutting down a coal plant that spews pollution into the air means that coal plant workers get fired, and it's true. Intelligent switchboard technology meant that manual operators were ultimately unneeded. But then again someone has to learn the new tech and how to fix it, how to maintain it, etc. We're not talking about technology that makes physically dangerous or repetitive jobs obsolete, though. We're talking about creative arts. A car replacing a horse isn't the same as a computer replacing a writer or actor, and to even try and equate the two is completely insane to me.
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Sep 27, 2023 00:53
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Yes, I am not talking about tomorrow, I'm talking about 5, 10, 20 years from now. Actually, maybe it's for the best. I watch too much TV anyway.
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Sep 27, 2023 01:09
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Maggie Roswell lived out of state and asked Fox to pay for her flights to LA to record so they instead killed off Maude and stopped using her for 3 years before bringing her back anyway.
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Oct 16, 2023 00:46
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Tree Reformat posted:The Peter Cushing CGI is especially galling because when he was alive, he was very particular about his likeness usage, wouldn't allow any action figures of his character to be made. I don't like cgi people but cushing died in 1994 so I'd say that a 22 year gap isn't 'as soon as he died'
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fart blood posted:And what exactly is their plan when there's literally no jobs anywhere? (Aside from being kindly escorted to a guillotine by billions of unemployed people?) Why do you think Musk and Bezos are spending millions of dollars in tax payer money to get commercial space rockets working reliably? We stay here on a dying planet working for them and they live in space or on the moon where robots clothe them, and feed them, and compose their smooth jazz.
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I guess I need to clarify my joke about rich people living in space. It was a joke. They all clearly plan to live on super boats that sail the seas, avoiding mega hurricanes and taking advantage of the non-existent tax laws of international waters.
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