interolivary

interolivary, 1 year ago

Like, do you think that Kent state happening means Tiananmen didn’t happen or wasn’t actually bad because people on the other side of the world also did bad things, or what the hell was your point with this exactly? Or did you just like bang at the keyboard until a syntactically correct sentence accidentally formed?

interolivary, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

They should replace workers and people should deserve to live without being workers, but it should also be painfully obvious that our current economic system won’t support this idea, and won’t until we do some pretty drastic things.

It’s not that we couldn’t build a post-scarcity society probably even right now given some pretty radical adjustment of resource allocations, we just don’t want to build one – “we” being the 0.01% that have such insane amounts of wealth that they’ve essentially taken over the whole economic system, largely thanks to eg. dumb fucks like Reagan and sociopathic fucks like Thatcher and the people who idolize them buying into the idea that they too can be that rich because the wealth will somehow magically trickle down.

interolivary, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

If you think this current brand of capitalism requires plebs to have money, I’m not sure how you explain the fact that when taking inflation into account wages have been either stagnant or actually going down ever since the 70’s / 80’s, the amount of wealth owned by the same plebs compared to the “financial ruling class” (mainly executives and such, and especially the banking sector thanks to deregulation) has shrunk dramatically, and cost of living keeps getting higher, while at the same time the compensation for the “financial ruling class” has grown at a frankly exponential rate.

Sufficiently advanced AI will, if anything, make it even more likely that that “ruling class” will realize they don’t need quite as many of us around because all we do us suck up their resources and complain how we haven’t eaten anything but cup noodles in a week and our teeth hurt.

interolivary, 1 year ago

That’s actually a bit tricky for me especially via text, I’ve got a touch of the 'ole autism (like I have an actual diagnosis from a real medical doctor and not TikTok), but I get what you mean. I have a bad habit of assuming the worst about people

interolivary, 1 year ago

honestly it feels like “being OK” and “producing art” don’t coincide all that often 😅

interolivary, 1 year ago

Well I certainly didn’t before you mentioned it, but I can now practically hear his laconic voice read me the last two panels

interolivary, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Oh you fucking tease, I hoped that that actually exists, but at least Beehaw’s community search gives me no results. WHY MUST YOU PLAY WITH MY HOPES AND DREAMS