Oops! Typo. School failed me hard!

[Edit: Thanks. Corrected that.]

Saw our boomer and genX parents ride the rise, told it’d be ours too, only to witness everything taken away, revealing only the lies remaining; the false promises that daddy corporation would take care of us all.

On a personal note, saw my parents throw away their entire 2 million, cost me a million in effort through blackmail, slavery, torture and fraud, and then inverted my efforts, so it’s like they managed to throw away 4 million, and then I’m there with the government doing waves of culls of the disabled poor by cutting them off to starve, denying them even the pittance (~ I’ve heard said, disabled people’s costs of living are 4-10 times higher, and, so, why is the top rate of disability support income less than half what they say is the living wage?)… yeah, the inequality keeps going down all the way. Not just comparing the billionaires and trillionaires to the working class and upper precariat. … All while knowing the technology exists to emancipate everybody to lush abundance… Buuuut, is suppressed, because, ’ gotta keep those rents and regressive tax extortion and usury flowing, eh?

Sucks being dependent on your abuser.

… Will not be televised.

Heh… as Marx got older, he moved from around -5,-5 on the political compass, to around -10,0.

Yeah. Maybe age alone is not the driving criteria. ;)

Maybe people just say that to make those prone to following do that.

That and the money. “No. It’s mine.”

We millennials were deprived of all of that.

Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age

I told you boomers I was gonna do that, when I was 17, already coming out of my corporate-fanboi phase of my teens. “Afukinatoadaso”

Glad there are millennials who came after me doing so too. Unsurprising, given what we went through. Well done capitalism, selling out our futures.

Now I just hope more remembered it’s freedom too, and not just jumping boat from Big Baron into the arms of Big Brother (or Big Bully, or Big Bank, or Big Blight, or Big Bot).

Like ol Mikey Bakunin said: “We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.” – Mikhail Bakunin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin

[Edit… it’s only early to mid 40s for the first Millennials so far… We’ll see if that sticks. As the saying goes, “60’s the new 40”.]

I want these glasses you’re advertising.

People always forget, nuance exists.

Amen.

(to noticing and remembering nuance exists)

(ps, Good luck with that other conversational cascade here… recent experience taught, that one’s not at all inclined to nuance, open minded conversation, or entertaining ideas (nuanced or otherwise), or anything other than unreasonably repeating dogma with fallacies galore.)

Bit of both.

Oh for lives of leisure.

So that we may all become polymaths.

Rather than lives of distraction from our toils done under duress, keeping us as specialists, cogs in the machine, ignorant to all else.

I’ve always believed that everyone should be able to have, for free, a permanent private living space of at least 80sqft, a reasonably comfortable bed, access to a toilet and shower and associated toiletries, clothing suitable for the weather, water and food (even if only some flavorless nutritional paste), and access to medical care both as-needed and on a regular basis. if you have no ambition in life beyond sitting in that little room staring at the wall and eating soylent, then so be it, for a society to provide any less is immoral

Since around 2004, getting really deep in some leisurely research rabbit holes, I’ve maintained the assertion that everybody should be able to have, for free, spaceships of their own, that are clean ZPE powered, can do zero-inertia propulsion (~ that’s all the instant acceleration, instant stopping, high speed sharp angle turns, stuff ~), can sustain human life indefinitely, can print another of itself instantly, and safe enough for a 2 year old to fly home.

… And that we could have had spaceships for everybody since the 1930s, and it’s not so wild if one simply follows the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla’s time (stopping by things like the Sonora Aero Club from 1850 along the way), and you can see the early working prototypes of the technology before the wright brothers’ first flight.

That, and, the abundant space on earth.

… Y’know we could increase the carrying capacity of earth to over 300 trillion, still with abundant spacious nature, with vast forest arcologyscapes. Much of the same tech that avails all space, helps us accomplish such constructive feats of better resource management on earth.

No cull necessary.

We have so much headroom, with proper resource management.

We have so much headroom, without the parasitic crooks keeping us down, just so they have “more”. Blithering idiots in the psychopathic circlejerk, yet to evolve to realise they’d have even more yet, in availing abundance and emancipation. They’d not be living the stressful fear laden life, striving to keep us down, and keep us from turning on them for keeping us down. Do they have spaceships yet? And the reassurance no one is trying to take theirs because everybody has their own too?

Spaceships for everybody.

(I say that a lot. I mean it like it encapsulates everything you proposed we each should have, and more, to the very best of human innovation.)

Alas, that’s a misidentification of the strawman fallacy there, reading implication between the lines that was not there, as well as also mistaken about what was referred to on the lines.

Good effort looking out for fallacies though.

And then due to a rounding error, there were still some admin bureaucrats around, who took what they didn’t understand, through the filter of entertainers, from the scientists and engineers, and said that what the engineers had built meant everybody didn’t need to do their non-bullshit [Edit: (and bullshit)] jobs any more.

Oops. Why did I bother writing that. Should have got an “A.I.” (LLM) to write it for me. Of course! Silly me.

So nearly got an upvote from me, but then you had to ruin it with a false dichotomy. Better ways

Oh, and also, I just caught before clicking reply, “given the right to live” is a moved goal post.

Does make the best of UBI advocacy pretty tight.

Was it the cosmic being, or some aliens pretending (or being mistranslated) to be god?

Still… either way, it’s still wrong.

Hrmm.

I read that as resulting in 21.

My education system did fail me.

I plugged that into ghci as 2+5*(8-5), and it says 17.

:(

I did (2+5)*(8-5).

Doh.

[Edit: (Double doh! Mistyped that here as 5+2. XD)]

A patient cured, a customer lost. A dead customer, just a cost of business.

^ Say “for profit medicine” (oxymoron btw), behind closed doors.

Welcome to USA, I guess.

In other countries, you could probably completely fill a fridge with insulin for $800.

racist against Wookies? Lol when was that shown?

Like when she says something like “Would somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way?” and general demeanor in interactions and absence of interactions.

And we’ll need it then too, with all the bone rot.

Ever hear of the precariat?

It’s growing. It’s coming for you.