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0 pointsmhss2y ago0 comments

re: UBI. I don't think they'll let us starve, but that's a very low bar. If we all become fungible and invaluable they can just feed us Soylent green.

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tim3332y ago

I think it may go like slave owning societies of old. We'll be the masters and have the robots do stuff. Perhaps.

whimsicalism2y ago

Who is they?

mhssOP2y ago

People that has enough money & wealth to employ others, control corporations who employ thousands and influence the government meaningfully (lobbying). Today, they basically control who is employed and who isn't by deciding how much to invest and in what. No, you cannot just choose to employ yourself in all circumstances. I'm all for being self-sufficient but not everyone can start a company (time and capital intensive, and very risky without a safety net).

pmarreck2y ago

If you don’t believe you can do a thing before you even try, then you’re correct, right out of the gate. (insert eyeroll emoji here)

All your repeated uses of “they” points to a toxic external-locus-of-control worldview. You were always the only limit of yourself. Any other claim amounts to heretical self-dehumanization. You’re not fungible and never were, and anyone who tries to make you believe that deserves the utmost vehement pushback.

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realce2y ago

Whoever owns and control the bear, are you actually confused about that or is this just baiting?

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