Mainly just my absolute shock at the openness of saying "We really need to see a weaker labor market." Seriously??? That is where we are at now. The complete and transparent assault on the worker by people I personally fund. Outrageous! At least lie to me about your motives like I might have a modicum of power over you. Now you just tell me to eat shit and die right to my face.
It's the way of things. When things are new the tech can be understood and seen. You also have to know how to fix it early on and because it is simple you usually cloud. Old cars, the first electric devices, hell even some of the first radios were being built in the field. Fixing a phone looks as close to magic as most normal humans see. Everything is so damned small and complicated even the smallest part would be difficult to replicate and replace. I love old tech because you could grasp the whole with your mind and see it work.
To some degree literally all of it. My monkey brain was designed to handle at most 150 people, wandering around all day searching for food, unprocessed food, using my body, having a close community I trust, relationship with nature, extreme knowledge of a small amount of things, and an uninterrupted sleep cycle powered by the son.
My humanity is a poor fit for the world I am in.
Woa there comrade. Trying to build a world where extracting value from labor isn't they ultimate goal? You'll never be a disillusional billionaire wannabe grinding your youth and passion into the labor that powers the elite classes whims with that attitude. Don't you want to see Jeff Bezos sorta go to space? That can't happen with spreading the wealth. Stay hungry my friend.
My current favorite is the federal reserve making policy to intentionally weaken the labor market. I am currently paying the fuckwads scheming to keep labor weak, docile, and dependent. What a blast.
Not very long till a nerd shows up. My favorite is that FDR wore gender neutral clothes, including dresses, and did not get his hair cut till he was 7. A bizarrely more progressive past activity.
I can't comment on how they get books and the nonsense that is involved, but at least no one expects you to buy anything and even late fees have been thrown out in favor or people just having access to knowledge. Giving people knowledge for free just because we can. What a concept
Would be far easier to name things that are not a scam and assume the rest is just a scam in waiting.
Libraries, Pets, Sunrises/sets, Nigerian princes needing loans, Mr. Rogers
Everything else is probably looking to take money from you in some fashion.
I for one can't wait to watch her bank account mysteriously grow insanely fast relative to her pay. Suddenly she commands a hefty profit for each "speaking engagement" she goes on and any book she writes will get anonymous purchases in the thousands. Uncanny how profit seems to follow turn coaiting.
For good reason we used to tar and feather people. Their fear of the public has vanished. The rabble has forgotten it's power.
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