The Sicatoka
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Re: POTUS Elect Trump I: Get in pu$$y - we're gonna make American great again
I 'member.
We deify the good ole days, ...
I 'member.
We deify the good ole days, ...
The Trolling of Mike Pence Gets Better and Better
First people donate to Planned Parenthood in his name, now his DC Neighbors fly a Rainbow Flag![]()
Call me cynical, but if they really cared all that much, they would've been flying them for years now.
That's why it's called "trolling".
It's basically the smug liberal equivalent of putting a flag on your car after 9/11, and then accusing anyone who didn't have one of hating America and/or being a godless commie.
Call me cynical, but if they really cared all that much, they would've been flying them for years now.
So a lot of moderate conservatives are against government regulations. How do you conservatives feel about punitive threats from the government for certain corporate actions (as Trump is starting to do)?
How do you conservatives feel about punitive threats from the government for certain corporate actions (as Trump is starting to do)?
So, I'll give you the Reader's Digest*: My automation is more efficient, but it's being put in because factories can't find suitable workers.
*Need the large print edition?![]()
We deify the good ole days, but like I said, it's still not a great system. I'm pretty sure police didn't become evil as soon as we tore some of those walls down. In fact, I'm willing bet they were even worse prior. There wasn't a lot of space for those stories in the newspapers of those guys though.
What has been will be again, / what has been done will be done again; / there is nothing new under the sun. -- Ecclesiastes 1:9
No, we will always need work to be done, but more and more will move out of human control and to robotics, computers, and probably stuff we can't even imagine yet. There is no law that says jobs have to appear in proportion to the population. For example, US manufacturing output is at its all-time high. Manufacturing jobs continue to decline not because of a decline in output, but in a decline in the "human labor ratio" of manufacturing tasks. Machine/AI inputs will continue to increase and eventually slop over into every work segment. Just think of how many jobs have been replaced by computer programs -- not even hardware. Presumably at some point people will be aghast that we ever let human beings drive buses, fly airplanes, fight wars, perform surgery, balance the books, mine coal, etc... Tech just gets faster and more efficient and cheaper, all the way up and down the production system.
Pretty much.
Both are smarmy, jackwagon moves.
I'd like to see us increase minimum wage. It's far from a perfect solution but I think would help ease the transition we are going through.
GMI is the inevitable bridge move. When the number of "work" jobs become obviously insufficient for the potential workforce, we can either move to a guaranteed income or let people starve to death. Assuming Paul Ryan isn't in charge, we'll do the former. Since productivity and output will only continue to increase (at least up to the point where Nature has had enough and wipes us all out via a plague), the possessions considered to be "minimal needs" will continue to increase. There's no guarantee that this will include education, so population growth won't necessarily stabilize, and that will slow things down for a while, but eventually even women in Iran and Mississippi will figure it out.
And so eventually the whole idea of getting a paycheck, once from the employer but now from the government, will gradually die off, and people will just take what they need from the necessities bucket when they need it.
We'll still have the rich -- we'll still have our monkey brains and a few who NEED to lord it over the other monkeys -- but at least the line of impecunity will have been moved from "pick which child starves" to "pick which day you can't do cocaine this week."
Not saying it will be better. Just different. But way different that we can see.
"pick which day you can't do cocaine this week."
It may be jackwagon but it's very different from the 9/11 example. That was "Look at ME -- I'm so patriotic!" This is "Look at YOU -- you're a loathsome sack of sh-t."
It's a shaming move, not a peacock move.
Leave symbols to the symbol-minded.
Carlin? Sounds like him.