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by s73ver 9y ago
I didn't have time. But, as I've said many, many, many times, I'm not trying to stop automation and machinery from advancing. So please stop insinuating that. I am saying that we MUST, absolutely MUST find some way to assist
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by s73ver 9y ago
Do you think the same bill today would have anywhere near a chance of passing? I don't.
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by s73ver 9y ago
I'm going to have to completely disagree with the idea that we can't do anything to soften the blow. And note that nowhere have I called for progress to be halted or regulations preserving "obsolete" jobs to be enacted.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Philosophy discussion aside, what is going to be done for those displaced to automation? The whole "what is the goal of the economy" talk is nice, but at the end of the day, there are millions of people who are going to be unable
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by s73ver 9y ago
I don't completely believe that. Further, if these companies are not offering jobs with living wages, and expecting the safety net to pick up the slack, why are we not taxing the hell out of them? At least to the point where they pay b
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by s73ver 9y ago
"Adjust that so nobody but the wealthy can afford to build a NEW house. We already have it that the poor generally buy used cars (or buy with bad deals, negative equity etc...). If there were no loans then there would probably be an ev
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by s73ver 9y ago
Which is orthogonal to this discussion. Mainly because I don't believe Basic Income would gain any traction in the US. So we need to find other solutions.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"Why should one be forced to pay rent or buy food?" Well, you're not. You don't have to exist. I kinda like existing, though. Yes, yes, utopian society and all that. It's the way things exist now, and while it can b
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by s73ver 9y ago
So what industry is going to explode when robotic manufacturing, or driverless vehicles become common? What industry is going to take in all the truck drivers and assembly workers?
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by s73ver 9y ago
Except there are going to be far, far fewer of those positions than there are people displaced by automation.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Where do you find the resources and time to take on this new education when you're trying to pay a mortgage and feed your family?
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by s73ver 9y ago
"Over the years I've watched various professions devalued to search engines and spreadsheets, from paralegals to accountants. I don't think it's a bad thing. It's progress and it's freeing up time." I abso
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by s73ver 9y ago
I agree it's not a fair characterization of Mastadon, but it's definitely a fair characterization of some of the servers, including the one that the guy in the story set up.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"Too much bitching about how blocking CP is "as bad as Twitter."" Things like this are why I can't take techies seriously when they complain about "censorship".
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by s73ver 9y ago
Thus proving that moderation isn't something you can just ignore or leave to the community. You need to be proactive, and doing that takes time, effort, and maybe money.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Again, I have no respect for this line of argument. I don't care what you think about someone "risking" things. That's no reason whatsoever to screw people over simply because they have little other choice.
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by s73ver 9y ago
I've never given this argument any respect, and I'm not going to start now. Saying that being fucked over might provide a little bit of benefit is no excuse for fucking people over in the first place.
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by s73ver 9y ago
I would completely disagree. The silk road was motivated by money. That's it. Hence why Ulbricht tried to hire a hit man to kill people when his criminal empire was threatened.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Not entirely. Adding more middle men isn't a good thing, and depending on the terms for renting the car, they can be obscenely predatory. I know Uber and Lyft's rental terms are pretty shitty.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Except that while you do that, you still need to provide for your family.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"so it may discourage holding traditional jobs down and encourage people to do more creative things because computing is cheaper." It's hard to do creative things when you have to work the gig economy all day to barely afford
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by s73ver 9y ago
"a 50% pay cut is still a fantastic wage (globally relative)." I'm not interested in relative to global. I'm interested in relative to where I live. Cause, you know, that's where I have to pay rent and buy food.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"they (or their children) need to acquire those skills that make them employable in the 21st century" Who's going to pay for that? Who's going to pay the mortgage while they go back to school? This is, of course, not eve
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by s73ver 9y ago
That's a lot easier said than done. I really have no influence on the cost of housing or food. So if I have a 50% pay cut, I'm probably not going to be able to live where I do.
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by s73ver 9y ago
If all they want is messaging, with no apps, then any of the older ones should be fine.
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by s73ver 9y ago
The thing that did that IS a system component. They can't remove it. They can only disable it.
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by s73ver 9y ago
You mean the thing they were running, which updated to include the 3rd party dialer app against their wishes?
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by s73ver 9y ago
They can't uninstall the app that comes, and it was forced on them through an update. That's a terrible thing, no matter how you try and spin it.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"All those jobs are not coming back and it is a good thing." Not if you used one of those jobs to feed your family. Seriously, I am absolutely sick and tired of people saying that not having these jobs is a good thing, and complet
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by s73ver 9y ago
You asked what needed to happen. They told you. Even if you, yourself don't want to do it, the attitude you've taken here is exactly the attitude which drives people away from OSS.

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