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I'm definitely not likely to do something about it. My income is growing at a nice pace, I can afford all the necessities, plus vacations and leisure activities
by PopsiclePete 9y ago
I'm definitely not likely to do something about it. My income is growing at a nice pace, I can afford all the necessities, plus vacations and leisure activities. I live in a miraculous age of fast travel and global connectivity.
It's the Global Economy, the Knowledge Economy, and I'm one of the "winners". I imagine most people who post here are on the "winning" side as well.
So why would I rock the boat? Protest? Protest what? Are these "rich parasites" even breaking the law? I don't know, honestly. Their lawyers are probably pretty convincing. Maybe the laws have loopholes, maybe I'd be exploiting those loopholes myself if I knew how to work the system.
"While we’re on the road to our Star Trek future, but before we finally get there, the rich are going to get richer—because they own the robots—and the rest of us are going to get poorer because we’ll be out of jobs. Unless we figure out what we’re going to do about that, the misery of workers over the next few decades will be far worse than anything the Industrial Revolution produced."
Marx predicted all this, to a T. It really is the logical end-game of capitalism. I have a feeling Marx is going to become very relevant again. We'll see if the NFL, Netflix, and cheap food will be enough to contain that genie this time.