tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post2861163464800083706..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: IF YOU THINK OUR TECH OVERLORDS WILL COMPENSATE US FOR ELIMINATING ALL THE JOBS, YOU'RE DREAMINGSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-78014244916485450302016-03-10T12:19:55.609-05:002016-03-10T12:19:55.609-05:00When they finally fire everybody, and nobody has a...When they finally fire everybody, and nobody has an income, then the profits will really start rolling in.<br /><br />"If we really are facing a massive loss of jobs in the future, the only way we're going to get anything from the people taking those jobs away is if we're threatening to burn their mansions to the ground."<br /><br />This is the way it has always worked, society is a protection racket -- you've got to keep enough people, (especially the one's who know how to make trouble) enfranchised, lest the reactor lose all its control rods and KABLOOEY!!!. The problem with too many of the ultra well-heeled is they tend to forget this fact, believing that the stability they've known is a given, and more importantly a right, rather than a privilege. Combine this with the tendency of those who live in a bubble (like the techies) to engage in mutual strokefests whereby they ascend in their own minds to the status of ubermenschen who can out wit and out do anyone without their pedigree and resources and voila, you've got the mindset that provokes revolution. <br /><br />I remember watching Sophia Coppola's film about Marie Antoinette and repeatedly having the thought, "where's the revolution?" and seeing this as if it were an omission. But in the very end it showed up, and from her perspective seemingly without warning, and then I got it -- they never see it coming until it's way too late. By removing themselves from the loop they lose the news. Alas.<br /><br />I suspect they believe they will come up with some solution to maintain crowd control, I would guess that the universal income is one of the more enlightened, but in the absence of any seamless segue to such a solution they'll probably just continue along in the old habits of business as usual as they learned it at Stanford, Harvard or Wharton until the shit hits the fan, and at that point all the police state tactics and fast talk about free market virtues won't be enough to distance them from the misery.<br /><br />An empty stomach knows no philosophy.<br /><br />It's the cycle of history, man.<br /><br /> swkellogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06282997501489101503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-4605000229511368402016-03-09T20:25:34.572-05:002016-03-09T20:25:34.572-05:00Soooo... No Star Trek: The Next Generation, where ...Soooo... No <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>, where everyone speaks American, has universal education, health care and income, and are free to pursue the finer things in life. Bummer. More like <i>Blade Runner</i>, I suspect, or the latest incarnation of <i>Total Recall</i>.<br /><br />I find it fascinating to read the histories and literature of the European Revolutions, and a lesser extent the Chinese. Masses of millions throwing down the ruling hand-full who by most accounts had no idea what was coming. Marie Antoinette didn't know they were going to cut her head off till she reached the gaol steps. And that canard about banksters leaping to their deaths from skyscrapers in the heart of The Great Depression: it's just that, a canard. History rewrit by those (temporarily) in a position to get away with it. They didn't jump.<br /><br />History only repeats to those paying attention. Interesting times, we live in. Fascinating even.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-44880100901306598652016-03-09T16:20:55.475-05:002016-03-09T16:20:55.475-05:00Maybe it's just my dotage showing, but as 1-pe...Maybe it's just my dotage showing, but as 1-percent oppressors go, for some reason I prefer the old J.P. Morgan variants to the "cooler" current versions. But not by much. Just different subspecies of swine.CHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15409212720220729669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-18053459644948259472016-03-09T15:46:57.708-05:002016-03-09T15:46:57.708-05:00Heads on pikes.Heads on pikes.petrillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889489779105405703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-28905129582060647862016-03-09T15:42:52.377-05:002016-03-09T15:42:52.377-05:00Once the wealthy's robots, nanotech & algo...Once the wealthy's robots, nanotech & algorithms have subsumed almost all "needed" work, I suppose personal servants (probably indentured) will be quite a status symbol, & numbers of armed thugs will be (barely) employed to protect the 1% & their property, but yes, everyone else will be shit outta luck, & under an overpass huddled around a blazing oil drum.M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.com