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Silent Majority
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There go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5
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- Dr. Medulla
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But think of all the free time those workers have now!Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 4:22amThere go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Silent Majority
- Singer-Songwriter Nancy
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Re: AI-yi-yi
Not a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 8:40amBut think of all the free time those workers have now!Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 4:22amThere go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5
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Re: AI-yi-yi
One of my very tentative predictions of the pandemic's long-term effects is the introduction of a universal basic income. Similar to how the welfare state was unimaginable and, believed, unworkable before the Depression, afterwards it was just common sense and seen as a means of solving capitalism's paradox (as American economists and sociologists believed in the 1950s). The economic shutdown in the initial stage of the pandemic and the government payments to keep people from being evicted, starving, etc will be the blueprint. That's my prediction—tentative, again—in terms of the pandemic's legacy.Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 9:14amNot a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 8:40amBut think of all the free time those workers have now!Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 4:22amThere go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Hello,Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 8:40amBut think of all the free time those workers have now!Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 4:22amThere go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5
There will always be a market for Personal Assistants for the rich. It's no fun, it's not fulfilling, etc. to scream at a robot or computer screen when you can scream at a real person.
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This … smells of truth.gkbill wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 11:13amHello,Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 8:40amBut think of all the free time those workers have now!Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 4:22amThere go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5
There will always be a market for Personal Assistants for the rich. It's no fun, it's not fulfilling, etc. to scream at a robot or computer screen when you can scream at a real person.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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*heavy sigh* I guess we can't be overly picky with our allies.gkbill wrote: ↑22 May 2023, 5:25pmHello,
We are all on the same side here:
https://uproxx.com/indie/sting-not-impr ... -a-battle/
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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I'll take it.gkbill wrote: ↑22 May 2023, 5:25pmHello,
We are all on the same side here:
https://uproxx.com/indie/sting-not-impr ... -a-battle/
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Between this and the extemely amusing cameo in Only Murders in the Building, I've warmed to Sting just the tiniest bit.gkbill wrote: ↑22 May 2023, 5:25pmHello,
We are all on the same side here:
https://uproxx.com/indie/sting-not-impr ... -a-battle/
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Re: AI-yi-yi
It was his album of John Dowland songs that did it for me.Flex wrote: ↑23 May 2023, 12:10amBetween this and the extemely amusing cameo in Only Murders in the Building, I've warmed to Sting just the tiniest bit.gkbill wrote: ↑22 May 2023, 5:25pmHello,
We are all on the same side here:
https://uproxx.com/indie/sting-not-impr ... -a-battle/
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc
Re: AI-yi-yi
I wish I had nearly this kind of optimism. I have another friend that's convinced we're going to have the 4-day workweek within 5 years. I just don't see it happening with either of these because all that money and labor could be benefiting the CEOs instead of the workers. The short-term gain of the rich just seems like a higher priority and damn the consequences.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 9:34amOne of my very tentative predictions of the pandemic's long-term effects is the introduction of a universal basic income. Similar to how the welfare state was unimaginable and, believed, unworkable before the Depression, afterwards it was just common sense and seen as a means of solving capitalism's paradox (as American economists and sociologists believed in the 1950s). The economic shutdown in the initial stage of the pandemic and the government payments to keep people from being evicted, starving, etc will be the blueprint. That's my prediction—tentative, again—in terms of the pandemic's legacy.Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 9:14amNot a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 8:40amBut think of all the free time those workers have now!Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 4:22amThere go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc
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The thing is, the economy in North America is driven by consumption, so even business understands how important it is that people have money to redistribute back into their pockets. As jobs disappear as a matter of structural change, whatever labour cost savings are threatened by fewer consumers. The corporate tyrants were evaluating the effects of the pandemic, too, and the threats and opportunities to future business.Kory wrote: ↑23 May 2023, 4:36pmI wish I had nearly this kind of optimism. I have another friend that's convinced we're going to have the 4-day workweek within 5 years. I just don't see it happening with either of these because all that money and labor could be benefiting the CEOs instead of the workers. Their short-term benefit just seems like a higher priority and damn the consequences.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 9:34amOne of my very tentative predictions of the pandemic's long-term effects is the introduction of a universal basic income. Similar to how the welfare state was unimaginable and, believed, unworkable before the Depression, afterwards it was just common sense and seen as a means of solving capitalism's paradox (as American economists and sociologists believed in the 1950s). The economic shutdown in the initial stage of the pandemic and the government payments to keep people from being evicted, starving, etc will be the blueprint. That's my prediction—tentative, again—in terms of the pandemic's legacy.Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 9:14amNot a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 8:40amBut think of all the free time those workers have now!Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 4:22amThere go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5
But, again, I'm not saying this is definitely going to happen, only that this kind of crisis always changes greater social and economic relationships. The world after a crisis never looks the same as it did before; it bears the effects of the crisis. So a longer-lasting change rooted in the reaction to the shutdown seems a reasonable guess.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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I'm far from knowledgeable about economics, but how does this work when so much of the country lives paycheck to paycheck and can barely even pay rent, much less go shopping?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑23 May 2023, 4:50pmThe thing is, the economy in North America is driven by consumption, so even business understands how important it is that people have money to redistribute back into their pockets.Kory wrote: ↑23 May 2023, 4:36pmI wish I had nearly this kind of optimism. I have another friend that's convinced we're going to have the 4-day workweek within 5 years. I just don't see it happening with either of these because all that money and labor could be benefiting the CEOs instead of the workers. Their short-term benefit just seems like a higher priority and damn the consequences.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 9:34amOne of my very tentative predictions of the pandemic's long-term effects is the introduction of a universal basic income. Similar to how the welfare state was unimaginable and, believed, unworkable before the Depression, afterwards it was just common sense and seen as a means of solving capitalism's paradox (as American economists and sociologists believed in the 1950s). The economic shutdown in the initial stage of the pandemic and the government payments to keep people from being evicted, starving, etc will be the blueprint. That's my prediction—tentative, again—in terms of the pandemic's legacy.Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 9:14amNot a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc