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I wish the author had had the courage of their convictions to extend the analogy all the way to the glue factory. It’s what we are all thinking.
by danw1979 10mo ago
I wish the author had had the courage of their convictions to extend the analogy all the way to the glue factory. It’s what we are all thinking.
- jjmarr 10mo agoI have a modest proposal for dealing with future unemployment.
- _DeadFred_ 10mo agoSending all the useless horses to glue factories in that time was so prevalent it was a cartoon trope. The other trope being men living in flop houses, and towns having entire sections for unemployable people called skid row. The AI people point to post 1950s style employment and say 'people recovered after industrial advance' and ignore the 1880s through the 1940s. We actually have zero idea if the buggy whip manufacturer ever recovered or just lasted a year in skid row before giving up completely, or lived through the 2 world wars spurred by mechanisation.
- tyre 10mo agoHorses were killed more often for meat that was used in dog food than for glue. I did a deep research into the decline of horses and it was consistent with fewer births, not mass slaughter. The US Department of Agriculture has great records during this time, though they’re not fully digitized.
- giardini 10mo agoHorse meat is tasty too! Pretty popular in France. Hmmm, remember my first steak tartare in Belgium! Ymmmm!
- giardini 10mo agoSoylent glue?
- nasmorn 10mo agoThe owner class doesn’t need so much glue