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Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 09 Feb 2021, 2:42pm
by Kory
matedog wrote:
09 Feb 2021, 12:54pm
Saw this on reddit this morning:
https://www.pionline.com/defined-contri ... aight-year
The nonprofit I work for had to defer it last year amid the layoffs, but they are reinstating it this year.

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 11 Feb 2021, 11:16pm
by revbob
matedog wrote:
09 Feb 2021, 12:54pm
Saw this on reddit this morning:
https://www.pionline.com/defined-contri ... aight-year
Why do people hero worship this asshole?

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 11 Feb 2021, 11:45pm
by BostonBeaneater
revbob wrote:
11 Feb 2021, 11:16pm
matedog wrote:
09 Feb 2021, 12:54pm
Saw this on reddit this morning:
https://www.pionline.com/defined-contri ... aight-year
Why do people hero worship this asshole?
It's fucking ponderous.

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 12 Feb 2021, 12:29am
by Kory
revbob wrote:
11 Feb 2021, 11:16pm
matedog wrote:
09 Feb 2021, 12:54pm
Saw this on reddit this morning:
https://www.pionline.com/defined-contri ... aight-year
Why do people hero worship this asshole?
Because he's rich, and therefore better than everyone else.

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 12 Feb 2021, 12:32am
by Flex
Kory wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 12:29am
Because he's rich, and therefore better than everyone else.
well, not me

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 12 Feb 2021, 7:28am
by Dr. Medulla
Kory wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 12:29am
revbob wrote:
11 Feb 2021, 11:16pm
matedog wrote:
09 Feb 2021, 12:54pm
Saw this on reddit this morning:
https://www.pionline.com/defined-contri ... aight-year
Why do people hero worship this asshole?
Because he's rich, and therefore better than everyone else.

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 12 Feb 2021, 12:34pm
by revbob
Dr. Medulla wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 7:28am
Kory wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 12:29am
revbob wrote:
11 Feb 2021, 11:16pm
matedog wrote:
09 Feb 2021, 12:54pm
Saw this on reddit this morning:
https://www.pionline.com/defined-contri ... aight-year
Why do people hero worship this asshole?
Because he's rich, and therefore better than everyone else.
Love that.

I know someone who unknowingly uses that argument. The tend to look up various celebrities net worth on the internet to throw that number out there. To which I always respond what the fuck does that prove?

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 12 Feb 2021, 12:53pm
by Kory
revbob wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 12:34pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 7:28am
Kory wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 12:29am
revbob wrote:
11 Feb 2021, 11:16pm
matedog wrote:
09 Feb 2021, 12:54pm
Saw this on reddit this morning:
https://www.pionline.com/defined-contri ... aight-year
Why do people hero worship this asshole?
Because he's rich, and therefore better than everyone else.
Love that.

I know someone who unknowingly uses that argument. The tend to look up various celebrities net worth on the internet to throw that number out there. To which I always respond what the fuck does that prove?
It proves that they're smarter and that they work harder than you, no?

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 12 Feb 2021, 1:04pm
by Dr. Medulla
revbob wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 12:34pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 7:28am
Kory wrote:
12 Feb 2021, 12:29am
revbob wrote:
11 Feb 2021, 11:16pm
matedog wrote:
09 Feb 2021, 12:54pm
Saw this on reddit this morning:
https://www.pionline.com/defined-contri ... aight-year
Why do people hero worship this asshole?
Because he's rich, and therefore better than everyone else.
Love that.

I know someone who unknowingly uses that argument. The tend to look up various celebrities net worth on the internet to throw that number out there. To which I always respond what the fuck does that prove?
I think Odenkirk and Cross came up with that to respond to people who said, when O & C said Jay Leno isn't funny, that he makes more money than them.

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 9:19pm
by BostonBeaneater

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 10:25pm
by Guest1
BostonBeaneater wrote:
29 Mar 2021, 9:19pm
Lol.

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 10:27pm
by Guest1
What’s everyone’s opinion of Universal Basic Income? and the necessity of it if AI replaces blue collar jobs?

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 3:44pm
by Kory
RockNRollWhore wrote:
29 Mar 2021, 10:27pm
What’s everyone’s opinion of Universal Basic Income? and the necessity of it if AI replaces blue collar jobs?
I'm a big fan—I'm also a fan of the idea that people could choose between UBI or free education to train for a different kind of job (or both, in cases where people can't pay bills and go to school at the same time) in the case of ANY kind of job loss, through AI replacement or otherwise.

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 4:18pm
by Flex
UBI without the gutting of the rest of the safety net is something I like, the libertarian version which is a small UBI going along with obliterating all other government welfare programs is something I vehemently oppose.

I've read conflicting accounts of how much automation is actually going to destroy jobs in the short and mid term, but I support a robust system of welfare programs either way, of which UBI would be one powerful component.

Re: Late stage capitalism

Posted: 31 Mar 2021, 3:17pm
by Inder