Let's Riff on the next Tech/Social Revolution
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The people without enough drive or ambition to stay relevant to their societies are 100% confident in their ability to predict the future.
That's called Dunning-Kruger effect.
Textbook.
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I hate UBI shills tbh
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2000? I would think more like the 500 year old Calvinist philosophy. Jesus believed in generosity to the poor, which few modern American "Christians" subscribe to.GrumpyCatFace wrote:2,000 year old morality fables are not compatible with a lack of scarcity.brewster wrote:The notion that everywhere will be a world only of the elite owners of production and those on the dole is not reassuring. I doubt those who poo-poo the Guaranteed Income will be changed by these "love" jobs.
We are only accustomed to dealing with like twenty online personas at a time so when we only have about ten people some people have to be strawmanned in order to advance our same relative go nowhere nonsense positions. -TheReal_ND
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Nietzsche called and wants his country back
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Do "Christians" need the state's guns and goons to be generous or charitable? Does anyone?brewster wrote:2000? I would think more like the 500 year old Calvinist philosophy. Jesus believed in generosity to the poor, which few modern American "Christians" subscribe to.GrumpyCatFace wrote:2,000 year old morality fables are not compatible with a lack of scarcity.brewster wrote:The notion that everywhere will be a world only of the elite owners of production and those on the dole is not reassuring. I doubt those who poo-poo the Guaranteed Income will be changed by these "love" jobs.
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Yes, evidently. As just one example: before SS & Medicare the elderly were very likely to live in poverty and have poor healthcare, Christian charity notwithstanding.Fife wrote:Do "Christians" need the state's guns and goons to be generous or charitable? Does anyone?brewster wrote:2000? I would think more like the 500 year old Calvinist philosophy. Jesus believed in generosity to the poor, which few modern American "Christians" subscribe to.GrumpyCatFace wrote:
2,000 year old morality fables are not compatible with a lack of scarcity.
We are only accustomed to dealing with like twenty online personas at a time so when we only have about ten people some people have to be strawmanned in order to advance our same relative go nowhere nonsense positions. -TheReal_ND
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