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Here in the Netherlands immigrants are starting to protest about their near slavery conditions. As time goes on you have to start importing people from further

by Yeul 1y ago

Here in the Netherlands immigrants are starting to protest about their near slavery conditions. As time goes on you have to start importing people from further afield.

sharpshadow 1y ago
Hopefully we find extraterrestrial intelligence soon.
- Yokolos 1y ago
  Maybe they need to invent a time machine to start getting immigrants from different time periods?
  - asdfasvea 1y ago
    [flagged]
  - Cockbrand 1y ago
    Slightly tangential: there's an excellent Norwegian TV series based on the premise of suddenly appearing immigrants from earlier time periods, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beforeigners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beforeigners.
    - vizzier 1y ago
      and a south park episode for ones from the future :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks
- dspillett 1y ago
  Anything intelligence enough to find us, or be putting out signals we can find with instructions on how we can reply in a reasonable number of human lifetimes, is intelligent enough to stay well hidden for us lest we infect them with our stupidity!
  - hylaride 1y ago
    "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has to contact us" -Bill Watterson (via Calvin & Hobbes)
aeyes 1y ago
I thought that was one of the reasons why several US states are loosening child labor laws, they will put 14 year olds to work in Amazon warehouses and on the assembly lines.
- dmichulke 1y ago
  Is there no obligation to attend school in these states?
  - pixelatedindex 1y ago
    Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought in America there’s no obligation to attend school ever, because you can just be homeschooled and then take the GED? I think it’s dumb but I don’t know for sure.
    - fc417fc802 1y ago
      It's complicated. There's a broad requirement that you receive a K-12 education. There's also a huge amount of pushback against most things that would infringe personal freedoms, so "I'm handling that myself, go away" is permitted but the exact details vary between states. At least where I grew up if you drop out and don't file all the necessary homeschooling paperwork the police will visit you.
    - swiftcoder 1y ago
      It's a sort of a grey area, and varies a lot by state and which way the political winds are blowing. Miss too many days of government school because your family are poor and you had to help your parents put bread on the table? The truancy officer may show up to arrest you. Announce you are homeschooling your kids to avoid liberal indoctrination? Sending your kids to work in a factory? A-ok in a number of states.
  - danudey 1y ago
    Put the 14-year-olds on shift after school, put the adults on shift during the day. The teenagers won't have time to do homework but the schools aren't funded well enough to ensure a quality education anyway.
lo_zamoyski 1y ago
That's one reason for the corporate backing of globalism. It's sold as "mobility", but what it actually means is having the upper hand. It's not about a lack of "talent". It's about a lack of a pool of people who will put up with their crap. Consumerism rewards this process, because the glut of mediocre goods remains cheap.
- seneca 1y ago
  That's essentially the entire reason illegal immigrantion and the H1b program exist. They are both in precarious positions that allow them to be treated as indentured servants, forcing them to tolerate conditions Americans never would. None of it is about talent, it's about giving companies the ability to abuse employees, with a nice side of wage suppression.

by Yeul 1y ago

Here in the Netherlands immigrants are starting to protest about their near slavery conditions. As time goes on you have to start importing people from further afield.

sharpshadow 1y ago

Hopefully we find extraterrestrial intelligence soon.

Yokolos 1y ago
Maybe they need to invent a time machine to start getting immigrants from different time periods?
- asdfasvea 1y ago
  [flagged]
- Cockbrand 1y ago
  Slightly tangential: there's an excellent Norwegian TV series based on the premise of suddenly appearing immigrants from earlier time periods, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beforeigners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beforeigners.
  - vizzier 1y ago
    and a south park episode for ones from the future :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks
dspillett 1y ago
Anything intelligence enough to find us, or be putting out signals we can find with instructions on how we can reply in a reasonable number of human lifetimes, is intelligent enough to stay well hidden for us lest we infect them with our stupidity!
- hylaride 1y ago
  "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has to contact us" -Bill Watterson (via Calvin & Hobbes)

aeyes 1y ago

I thought that was one of the reasons why several US states are loosening child labor laws, they will put 14 year olds to work in Amazon warehouses and on the assembly lines.

dmichulke 1y ago
Is there no obligation to attend school in these states?
- pixelatedindex 1y ago
  Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought in America there’s no obligation to attend school ever, because you can just be homeschooled and then take the GED? I think it’s dumb but I don’t know for sure.
  - fc417fc802 1y ago
    It's complicated. There's a broad requirement that you receive a K-12 education. There's also a huge amount of pushback against most things that would infringe personal freedoms, so "I'm handling that myself, go away" is permitted but the exact details vary between states. At least where I grew up if you drop out and don't file all the necessary homeschooling paperwork the police will visit you.
  - swiftcoder 1y ago
    It's a sort of a grey area, and varies a lot by state and which way the political winds are blowing. Miss too many days of government school because your family are poor and you had to help your parents put bread on the table? The truancy officer may show up to arrest you. Announce you are homeschooling your kids to avoid liberal indoctrination? Sending your kids to work in a factory? A-ok in a number of states.
- danudey 1y ago
  Put the 14-year-olds on shift after school, put the adults on shift during the day. The teenagers won't have time to do homework but the schools aren't funded well enough to ensure a quality education anyway.

lo_zamoyski 1y ago

That's one reason for the corporate backing of globalism. It's sold as "mobility", but what it actually means is having the upper hand. It's not about a lack of "talent". It's about a lack of a pool of people who will put up with their crap. Consumerism rewards this process, because the glut of mediocre goods remains cheap.

seneca 1y ago
That's essentially the entire reason illegal immigrantion and the H1b program exist. They are both in precarious positions that allow them to be treated as indentured servants, forcing them to tolerate conditions Americans never would. None of it is about talent, it's about giving companies the ability to abuse employees, with a nice side of wage suppression.