Universal basic income is essential if we want to build a bright future in the age of automation.
Seriously. The 40-hour work week was codified in 1940, before computers did anything. Per-hour productivity has more than quadrupled since then, but we’re working even harder, to live not all that much better. It’s absurd.
No, it’s not absurd, it’s deliberate. The ruling class wants us to work as hard as possible, so they have profits to skim and pile up.
I’ll reblog this every time I see it: Before the 40 hour work week, we had the 80 hour work week, the 100 hour work week. What got us 40 hours? Unions. Want a work week that reflects productivity levels? Unions. Want UBI? Unions.
reblog to save a life in the (hopefully distant) future
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We’re not making out of the cyberpunk dystopia huh
You guys really need to understand that this is not a fucking dog
This is such a good example of why we need to be very self aware about our fiction.
Sentient robots that deserve rights and love are fictional. We made them up in stories.
Now, it’s my favorite kind of fiction. I love it. But it’s not real. It’s a metaphor for oppressed human beings.
Sentient AI doesn’t exist. There are corporations, and maybe even someday governments, who will want to convince you that it does, now and in the future.
Replikas don’t care about you and that robot dog is a military weapon.
This is ironic ‘cause military and police robot “dogs” (and the other robots they build) are built to do harm to oppressed people.
Yeah, the very people that are represented metaphorically in fiction by robots and androids.
Fiction is fun, and I love fictional robots with my whole heart. But I am not about to let it make me stupid about real life. :)
These things are not your friends. They are machines that will be used to hurt you and to hurt others. Do not fall for the propaganda that these things are just fun little friends! The above articles are the reality. Sorry.
I know, I know, gatekeeping the outdoors, that’s supposedly bad, right, but I think if you show up to do a hike and you brought a portable speaker with you to play music while you hike, I think, like hear me out, there should be a gate, and someone at the gate should keep you from doing the hike.
playing music in public should get strong social disapproval
Recorded music, anyway. Live music is different rules. If you want to lug an entire cello up a mountain you can do whatever the hell you want.
Carrying a speaker on a hike to make everyone listen to your bullshit, and simply sitting under a tree and playing a fiddle in the woods, are two activities so different they may as well not exist in the same world.
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