Be more than a number on a spread sheet
Be more than a number on a spread sheet
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Please report for organ harvesting tomorrow at nine.
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The wealthy have a plan: take all our money and then kill us off.
That's their whole plan.
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no no silly, that's what the private prisons are for.
they don't want to kill us, they want to enslave us.
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Unfortunately you are correct. sigh.
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Slaves still have to be fed, clothed, sheltered. They'll kill all but the most compliant and hard working.
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You broke the code, yes
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we'll never be royals
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We're in yet another phase where technology is making it possible to eliminate labor - similar to the Industrial Revolution, when factory machines replaced a lot of hand work - but the drive to eliminate employees has always been there. If business owners could run their businesses all by themselves from a chair by the pool, they would. In fact there are a few who have even figured that out.
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In fact there are a few who have even figured that out.
Like Don Eladio!
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Marx when contradictions of capitalism:
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As opposed to all those other times in the past when workers were better off than they are now...
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We had it great for a very short period, and only for a few of us, in human history. And we're still better off than anytime before that.
But yes, we could be far better off than we are now.
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There's a great deal of room for improvement, but I think that a person who doesn't realize that right now things are better than they have ever been is not a person whose ideas about what to change and how should be listened to. Our top priority should be to preserve the progress that has been made already but people who are ignorant of history are often willing to destroy what we do have with the naive expectation that things can't get much worse.
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That's not what OP is implying. How awful things were at some point is irrelevant. What matters is the incongruence of eliminating the activities that let you survive economically speaking
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Nah, cavemen had it really good.
The state did the hunting so that the people could just enjoy the savannah.
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This is so true, as anyone who is too disabled to work can attest to.
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We have reached the stage where they expect us to work harder than the machines that could replace us, and when we can't work ceaselessly for no pay, they can justify replacing workers with robots and AI.
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