Maeve
joined 2 years ago
We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.
This is solidarity. This is love.
There is an active mutual aid community on hexbear and at comradeship@lemmygrad.ml. They do good work.
Kool Aid is the brand name that ended up generic in meaning, like Scotch tape and bandaid.
700 is one job in a small town, mostly seasonal work. She stopped counting at 700. How many jobs do you think there are, there, especially in off -season? I'm sure several did end up homeless or dead in prison. I'm not about to doxx myself so believe what you choose.
I'm well aware USA isn't all the world. Several other Western societies and prisons seem to follow US lead. And no one said jobless automatically end up in prison. It's usually a series of unfortunate happenings. Lose a job, can't get another with livable wages, end up homeless, hungry, steal a can of sardines or crackers, get arrested, can't make bail, fight to survive in jail awaiting time or have an untreated medical issue...
What's really weird is you condescendingly telling me that my experience isn't all the world's, while failing to realize yours isn't, either.
It's not hyporbole. I applied once for a job in a small tourist trap town before AI was used in screening. I went to the office to check on it, not having heard back within seven business days. The receptionist was flipping through resumés, and when I inquired, motioned to several mail crates full of resumés. She apologized and said she stopped counting at 700. That's a small town.
If prisons aren't forced labor camps, what are they?
I honestly see your point. It's just capitalism doing what capitalism does. The bars are set so incredibly high, for every groveling "winner" there are tens of thousands "losers” who will become hungry, homeless, and die in the streets or in forced labor camps. The question is, how well do you like the taste and feel of that steak in your mouth, and how long will you get to enjoy it?
I'm not saying there's a right or wrong answer. I'm saying it's wrong to be forced into a position to have to make that decision, though.
A great-grandparent's dresser.
Fertile training ground.
Willfully blind by gildlust.
In a few hundred years, some species will find occulted notes of scientists, because it's illegal to publish reputable science in reputable journals, and some rich, greedy person will think it's a formula to turn literal carbon waste into literal gold.