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It's not only about gathering taxes. It's also about having someone to wipe your ass once you're too frail to do it yourself.
by AlexTWithBeard 5y ago
It's not only about gathering taxes. It's also about having someone to wipe your ass once you're too frail to do it yourself.
- ReactiveJelly 5y agoConceiving a child so they can wipe my ass sounds selfish
- c048 5y agoExpecting someone else's kid to be there to wipe your ass is even more so.
- AlexTWithBeard 5y agoWiping ass is just another job which someone has to do. And that someone has to be someone's kid.
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- flukus 5y agoWe can automate this with bidets. For a less literal interpretation, euthanasia (legal or otherwise) is how I'd like to avoid this stage of life entirely, it's now a legal possibility where I live if there's a terminal condition preventing me from wiping my own ass. Many people get to skip this stage in life entirely though, either through good health or misfortune.
- Ericson2314 5y agoLife's better when you put on your Keynesian hat. Productivity went up faster than population in the rich counties, and we all loss leverage with our employers as there wasn't enough work to go around. Now, if populations fall, there will be enough work again, and there will be a need to automate (maintaining the same standard of living is nice and uncreative) which will make more meaningful work for us programmers (the "productivity industry").
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThe japanese have power washers for this.