Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
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It's wealth redistribution in exchange for political patronage and non-productive labor activity.
Yes, and?
I think even the proponents of UBI will admit that this is indeed the point. They might phrase it a little more positively - “We have broken the wheel of history and finally given each person the means to live unconditionally, no longer demanding their supplication to Capitalist Alienation. Of course the souls thus saved will vote eternally to maintain this utopia, and rightfully so” - but that is absolutely the point of the exercise, sure.
They might reasonably ask Y U Mad about it? Why wouldn’t / shouldn’t people vote to get something for nothing? This failure mode of democracy has been known all the way back since Plato.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
6d ago
OK, that’s fair evidence to the contrary. I guess my countersupposition would be that if you’re enough of a conformist normie to hold down a job you’re also enough of a conformist normie that your psyche recoils at the prospect of engaging in meatspace anti-regime violence. I’ve met plenty of employed keyboard warriors who make all the noises that they want to bash the fash, not many employed actual warriors who’d really go do it.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
7d ago
My suspicion is that all the folks with a predisposition to form pro-illegal-immigrant mobs are already unemployed, so UBI wouldn’t actually free up any more of them.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
14d ago
But I guess from the 10,000 foot view, most should not be nearly as attentive to one lady being tragically gunned down when there's real, world-altering activity afoot somewhere else.
I disagree on both a practical and a philosophical level. I (predict that) I am never going to interact with a Venezuelan government official, and I don’t believe that geopolitical avalanches ever actually affect Western people’s lived experience on the ground that much. So what happens to one woman in American suburbia is in fact more relevant to me than what happens to one man in Caracas.
Neither of them are very relevant to me, but at least Good is actually sorta kinda in my reference class, and I can actually sorta kinda take actionable lessons from it (most importantly: don’t let my wife tell me how to drive)
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
14d ago
I am dating a zoomer who thinks “Everyone should go to therapy regularly even if there are no specific problems, it’s just a health checkup for the brain!”. This means, apparently, both singles therapy and couples therapy. We have just the one female counsellor who serves all three roles (her individual sessions, my individual sessions, and the couples sessions). Which I’m sure must be a conflict of interest, but whatever, I go to indulge my adorable basket case of a zoomette, not to be the professional ethics police.
Sample size N=1, but I have absolutely found, as you suspected, that she is completely unable to empathise with the male perspective on anything.
If you do something with even the slightest economic value they will be all over you like a swarm of locusts.
Sure, but as anyone who has peered at the relative tax burdens of women and ethnic minorities in the US will know, people who produce economic value are a tiny, tiny segment of the population. Regimes that persecute a small number of people a lot > regimes that persecute a large number of people a little?
…shift the beneficiaries of those labour costs from blue collar bus drivers to white collar robotics engineers and AI devs. Which will probably increase the labour costs overall but that’s good because now I might be the one getting paid.
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