"The Robot Reality: Service Jobs Are Next to Go"

[BmoreGorilla]

I think chattel slavery ended due to the realization that, instead of housing slaves, feeding and clothing them, providing medical care to keep them productive, and having to deal with possible revolts, all they had to do was grant them "freedom", get the same net labor and have the slaves pay the slavers for everything I mentioned above.

Eventually it got to that but really the invention of the cotton gin is what got the ball rolling

 

[Tom Foolery]

I don't think so. If people really were overpopulated nature itself would take care of that.

The problem is you have a class of people who want to control everything, from the electrical grid to the food we eat. When you here "overpopulation" it just means "more people than we can comfortably control"

Now what if you can control the forces of nature now? like building a robot, ability to spend, control ownership etc.

People will adapt and figure it out like we've always done throughout history. If you think about it chattel slavery was made obsolete due to technology not the Civil War. The south was forced to adapt. Even tho some states still haven't but that their fault

I don't care about adapting. I want to proper.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I don't care about adapting. I want to proper.

You can't prosper before you adapt

 

[Tom Foolery]

You can't prosper before you adapt

No shyt, but just because you adapt doesn't mean you prosper.

Hell, I'm not ever sure most people will adapt to this.

 

[HellRell804]

Eventually it got to that but really the invention of the cotton gin is what got the ball rolling

The cotton gin was threatening to even the playing field for farmers who couldn't afford an army of "migrant workers" (s/o to Ben Carson). The mass influx of new workers willing to work for less (still more than free) depressed wages, lowered the value of money and cut those 2nd tier cacs off at the knees (sound familiar). Also it started a blood fued between poor whites and black people thats still going.

This play would go on to be reused during the women's liberation movement and is being used again with Mexican and Syrian immigrants.

The game don't stop

 

[HellRell804]

Now what if you can control the forces of nature now? like building a robot, ability to spend, control ownership etc.



I don't care about adapting. I want to proper.

What I meant was that if people couldn't produce enough food to feed their families, they would starve, this would shift the thinking in regards to procreation to a mindset of "how many kids could I really afford".

But we'll never see that scenario play out because people have divorced themselves from the necessary skills needed from survival. We don't "produce" food, we consume frankenfood from laboratories. We don't "build" shelter, someone else does and we just pay to live there. Have too many kids to realistically support? fukk it, the state will feed them.

The mindset has shifted from surviving in harmony with nature, to working 8 hours and using the rest of each day to perdue our base desires, consequences be damned

 

[BmoreGorilla]

No shyt, but just because you adapt doesn't mean you prosper.

Hell, I'm not ever sure most people will adapt to this.

But you were the one who said you don't care about adapting

And people always have except the stubborn ones like the rust belt cacs waiting for coal jobs to come back

 

[BmoreGorilla]

The cotton gin was threatening to even the playing field for farmers who couldn't afford an army of "migrant workers" (s/o to Ben Carson). The mass influx of new workers willing to work for less (still more than free) depressed wages, lowered the value of money and cut those 2nd tier cacs off at the knees (sound familiar). Also it started a blood fued between poor whites and black people thats still going.

This play would go on to be reused during the women's liberation movement and is being used again with Mexican and Syrian immigrants.

The game don't stop

That's true but mass influx of new workers took place moreso in the north which was already industrializing. The places where cotton drove the economy like Mississippi and Alabama are still economically depressed becuz they didn't adapt to new technology fast enough and held on to slavery way too long despite it not being as profitable as it once was

 

[HellRell804]

That's true but mass influx of new workers took place moreso in the north which was already industrializing. The places where cotton drove the economy like Mississippi and Alabama are still economically depressed becuz they didn't adapt to new technology fast enough and held on to slavery way too long despite it not being as profitable as it once was

The same people who profited from the slave trade moved up north. They needed the cheap labor and consumer pool for their new cities. The south had to die.

And as far as those deep south states you said "failed to adapt", they're being artificially held down. With its weather, access to water, and fertile lands, damn near all of our food should be coming from the south east. But a population that can feed and clothe itself is beyond control. So all agricultural innovations are suppressed (unless they can be patented *cough Monsanto), and the media continues to portray it as a cesspool of ignorant hillbillies to stop it from rising again.

 

[newworldafro]

Factory robot convinces 12 other robots to go on strike

A robotics company in Shanghai wanted to see how effective its persuasive AI programming could be.

boingboing.net

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Factory robot convinces 12 other robots to go on strike

A robotics company in Shanghai wanted to see how effective its persuasive AI programming could be.

boingboing.net