cattywampas

What in the boomer is this post

And all goods and services require some amount of humans putting in work in order for them to be provided. Nothing is truly 100% automated yet.

But labor is a necessity to survive, and always has been. We need the production of goods and services. Of course the distribution of wealth and goods is also an issue, but somebody (or something) has to produce the things we use.

Not yet, but it's an interesting thought experiment if nothing else. Someday, thanks to advances in robotics and computers, human labor will become largely obsolete. So the question is how do we structure our society when that happens?

I got the YouTube premium family plan a long time ago. Been worth every penny for the amount of YouTube we watch.

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but if there was one streaming service I was gonna pay for it'd be YT premium. You can pirate everything else pretty easily.

Data's poem was written by real people trying to sound like a machine.

ChatGPT's poems are written by a machine trying to sound like real people.

While I think "Ode to Spot" is actually a good poem, it's kind of a valid point to make since the TNG writers were purposely trying to make a bad one.

That's still selling your labor though.

What's the alternative then?

Start homesteading. When you provide everything for yourself, you won't have to sell your labor to anyone.

Check your local laws and ordinances, your landlords may be required to provide itemized expenses to you within a certain time frame. Where I am, it's within 30 days.