So much for humanity benefitting from technology. Instead of our workdays becoming fewer and shorter, a tiny number of people who don’t work at all will become richer while our lives become more alienated from our labor. This is the opposite of what we tell each other technology is supposed to accomplish. If it’s not a problem, why do we keep lying about?
That doesn’t change the fact that open source users are the welfare queens of our times. As long as open source software exists, lazy degenerates with no skin in the game will feel entitled to keep demanding more and more. That’s why open source software needs to die.
Open source users are the welfare queens of our times. As long as open source software exists, these lazy degenerates with no skin in the game will feel entitled to keep demanding more and more. Open source software needs to die.
My entire argument is based on the fact that a free-market healthcare system is not even an option. Frankly, a free-market economy of any sort is a utopian fantasy. Healthcare is just a useful case study of the problems.
That’s right. But the employer-dependent health insurance arrangement in the U.S. was implemented as an alternative to the various political dynamics that regulate most countries’ healthcare systems and it has successfully done so.
The problem, in other words, is that a truly free-market healthcare system would be politically infeasible in a major first-world nation. So instead of a public healthcare system that would provide minimal healthcare services to all citizens, they tied it to employment, effectively moving it from the consumer market to the labor market. So this arrangement, like most neoliberal policies including Obamacare, has served merely to buy more time for the ruling class. And worst of all it has worked.
Whether it’s hospitals, hosipital owners, doctors, or other healthcare industry benefactors, someone is making a killing beyond just the insurance companies. Ballooning administration is not only a cause but a symptom, which is why free market solutions can’t overcome the problem. Establishing new healthcare institutions will depend on the existing healthcare industry, which will expect the same profits or it won’t cooperate. There is no way around the fact that free-market healthcare is just deeply immoral and inhumane.
Especially since no amount of technology has lessened the amount that most of us (especially those doing these jobs being complained about) still have to work to earn a living.
See: Owning huge amounts of land is uniquely antisocial.
The point here is to maintain a society and some things must come first, namely material things which paintings are not. Of course, art history shows us time and time again the vital importance of material sustenance in creating and preserving works of art. If you really care about art, you have to care about the material foundations that make rich and meaningful social livelihoods possible.
Anyone know if Nouveau can operate in integrated-only mode? And if so how can that be confirmed? The only reason I use Nvidia drivers is to use integrated-only graphics mode.
The only construction project Google ever did in my city was use ancient (loud as hell) equipment to rip these big grooves down mile after mile of perfectly good neighborhood streets in all of our poor communities to cheaply install their “fiber internet” experiment that they abandoned 1 year later. And our streets are still covered with the rubber crap they filled the grooves with. More of it comes up every time it rains. It gets all over our pets and everything. I hate Google so much.
This just isn’t true. Every social species found in the wild relies on brutal social regulating behaviors that maintain social conditions necessary for group survival.
“Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.” —John Stuart Mill, 1848
There is always work to be done to reproduce society, but if reproducing society doesn’t turn a profit for the owning class, the work doesn’t get done and society doesn’t get reproduced.
“Will make them millionaires” should be replaced with “will afford them a home in a city with decent paying jobs.” For all intents and purposes, they are interchangeable and that’s the problem. This article makes me sick.
Keep criticizing them but what do you expect them to be doing instead? Dropping pennies into a 401K after giving half their paycheck to their landlord and the other half to student loans?
In the absence of hope, people gamble because the glimmer of a possibility gets them through the day. Whether it’s poor people buying lottery tickets or 19 year olds taking their father’s job at half the pay and no pension, you can’t suck all the hope out of a society and expect a rational outcome.
Additionally, the status quo can’t sustain itself either. The current restlessness has a few (I only mean a few) notable similarities to the social context which led to WW1. A lingering ruling class who has outstayed their welcome and an alienated, devalued working class that feels they’ve lost any sense of purpose or belonging is a good recipe for starting a stupid and pointless war.
So much for humanity benefitting from technology. Instead of our workdays becoming fewer and shorter, a tiny number of people who don’t work at all will become richer while our lives become more alienated from our labor. This is the opposite of what we tell each other technology is supposed to accomplish. If it’s not a problem, why do we keep lying about?