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James J. O'Meara's avatar

Losers : Ukraine’s Armed Forces - Steady retreats along the Donetsk front. Manpower issues still the top issue.

So, the invasion of Russia was after your deadline?

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Dave Bowman's avatar

Where is the gotcha? Invasion = audition for more NATO Venmo, not a drive to Moscow. I mean, are you kidding

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Imperius's avatar

The thread on CCP just casually grabbing and running Taiwan made me cringe. Ryan, please stop letting Hank write his doomer geopol takes.

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the long warred's avatar

Something tells me that law firm has foreign clients 🇹🇼 🇨🇳

That “gamer” complaints are even considered is a sign of the utter frivolity of our decline.

BTW aber etc Are of course 🇨🇳 clients and owned traitors, not actual lawyers, by virtue of this act, or the vice…

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Kristoffer O’Shaugnessy's avatar

There really will be no alternative to UBI either increasing automation and AI replacing human labor in entire occupations eventually and this will affect workers across all classes not merely ‘the underclass.’

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Viddao's avatar

Still the luddite fallacy. There will be plenty of jobs. Plumbing and other kinds of blue collar labor will be important, there will be engineers running the AI and manufacturing robots, and there is the police & military. There will probably be new jobs invented. I don't understand how you can just give everyone money out of the sky and not have rampant inflation. Universal Basic Income is the stupid myopic fever dream of university libtards that cannot possibly happen unless you reinstitute slavery.

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Kristoffer O’Shaugnessy's avatar

We’re in the early stages of this transition and it is already starting to replace jobs in many fields, mainly white collar (not your hated ‘burger-flippers’) but in tech, clerical and office staff, health care. It will replace many service workers, and at some point, skilled professionals financial, legal, medical). We will eventually have driverless transportation ( Google and Uber already testing prototypes).

It will create a small amount of technical and administrative positions but eliminate the need for human labor in many positions, including construction eventually ( robots don’t age or hurt themselves).

This is the reality shaping up significantly within the next 20-50 years. It is quite the opposite of Luddism.

Our present system of financial capitalism and wage slavery seems far more oppressive and meaningless for most average people than UBI and the end of work in the modern sense of the term would be.

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Viddao's avatar

If automation is going to be as bad as you make it out, then we should just ban automation. I still don't understand how UBI would work economically; there would be an infinite amount of inflation! Where would the money come from?

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