Automation should destroy the concept of money. The machines will be free labor and soon they will be self-maintaining, generating ungodly profits. Humans should finally be free from the slavery of work, free to truly pursue happiness.
Cancer has always been a part of humanity as well. Does that mean we should stop trying to defeat the emperor of all malady’s?
While I like where your head’s at, I don’t think automation will destroy money. People will still need to buy food and goods. And I don’t think it’s necessarily a great idea for people to have an infinite amount of time with nothing to do, but that’s just me.
arts also include the liberal arts.
I refuse to live in a society where anybody has to give up any potential income so that people can study homoerotic medieval poetry, or study whatever bullshit gender construct they think exists. My empathy for people extends to those who need it, and are in a crappy situation in which they no longer have control over. Not over people who choose wrong and now are stuck working menial jobs with a college degree in whatever liberal art/art/insert any non profession degree here, and can’t pay their bills. My empathy doesn’t extend to people who could have done something but instead put themselves in a position where they are no better off. The point of welfare or any system designed to help people is so that people can help themselves much better and move on, and when they do find success, they have the means to give back. It however shouldn’t enable nonsense.
What you do is the right thing, i’m not saying all people do it, but if you where to eliminate the idea of work you would facilitate a situation like that. You choose to work so that you can peruse your passion, that’s what people should do and realize that’s what they need to do. Eliminating work enables morons to do nothing and shift the burden on those that do work.
Pursuing your passion is not an option for the vast majority of the population. As long as resources are owned by someone else you will always be chasing that carrot.
Eliminating work will shift the burden to the machines. The only things left for humans to do will be the most meaningful and demanding endeavors. Science, government, space exploration, etc.
FYI I don’t expect this to happen anytime soon. It will be a bloody transition to a new world order that abandon’s the old paradigm of labor/money/resources.
I missed this one. Mocking a person with cerebral palsy. What a piece of shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA
there is no fucking drought
if there was, the governor would have told the almond farmers to suck terrorist dick, he’d force farmers to adopt the new technology that universities had been developing for years.
He’d also come down hard on celebrities. Plus we wouldn’t be dumping millions of gallons of water to protect some piece of shit fish.
Gary Johnson says the phrase “at the end of the day” way too much for a white person.
White people tend to structure groups of sentences in the same style and repeat phrases. Unless we’re writing or typing and actively recheck our work so it doesn’t repeat.
no, dawg. this is the list:
People Who Say The Phrase “At The End Of The Day” The Most
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5. nobody else
You’re becoming a caricature of yourself.
Armchair sociologist now?
Pay attention to what’s happening.
Citizens are being pegged with water restrictions and cash crop farmers are not being fined or told to stop nor do more with water conservation. One almond requires almost a gallon of water. There is this mass media campaign to conserve water and its being pushed hard across all meduims. The jist of it is don’t waste water, and its pegging urban use of water as the most egregious waste of water and where the most gains can be made. There hasn’t been a single resolution or measure that would force farmers to adopt undeground micro irrigation systems or back off cash crops, and when there was a resolution a few years ago, there was this shit storm about “prices”.
SEcondly, there hasn’t been a single fine issued against celebreties who water their multi acre estates even though they live in districts that have passed water consumption laws, yet normal folk to get pegged with fines.
Do you know what drought stricken countries do? They conserve water. There is so much waste in California because the farming lobby is pretty much saying fuck all, and if there was a drought, the state woudl actully force laws. They did it with cars and pollution, they did it against oil, they can do it against agriculture as well. Its gotten to the point where the state has officially declared that we are in a state of permanent long term severe drought, yet there hasn’t been any regulation passed, nor has there been any sign of it being passed.
It doesn’t help that we waste billions of water on fish
but that’s not my buisness
I know exactly what’s going on with California’s farmers. Both almond and avocado farmers are in fights with government about the water waste and that’s sorta understood as it’s a food and we all benefit from food. They SHOULD be growing something else instead that offers more nutrients and are less water intensive but here we are.
Celebrities/the rich were punished, as is chronicled in both the L.A. Times and The Washington Post, is just that they can afford the fines and don’t give a fuck. That’s a lot different than the government is doing nothing to stop them from wasting water.
then either there is a drought or there isn’t.
California has no problem passing laws to force regulation for air and other resources, water should be no exception. Either we are in a drought and the state along with citizens pull through, or we aren’t in a drought. Farmers aren’t just going to pick up and leave to the south, there is simply too much infrastructure here and you have access to the largest and cheapest work force in the United States. The state shouldnt’ be saying one thing and then acting like we aren’t in a situation
But…California did impose restrictions…
They also followed up with penalties.
What the fuck are you getting at?
what restrictions?
The water that was saved in cities was then used up by farms resulting in no net savings.You can’t legally nor should you legally force people to comply with regulation in order to subsidize profits.
Either pass laws to save water to reflect the state of emergency that has been made permanent, or you dont’ say ridicilous shit like we are in a drought and then act like nothing is wrong. This conversation doesnt’ even include the meat lobby in calfiornia as well
I blame that all on your dumb ass state allowing such foods grown there in the first place. Yes, Brown should be more politically brazen when stopping this shit especially since he’s on his way out. Still, these farmers should never have been allowed to plant such crops in a desert in the first place.