=== ANCHOR POEM === ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ CW: capitalism-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────┘ remote jobs are less common these days because they're realizing which parts can be either automated or are extraneous. the entire capitalist machine runs on like, 50,000% more labor than it needs. It's not that complicated, it's not very revolutionary, just a lot of duplicated effort and meaningless communicational transactions. I'm kind of glad they're getting rid of all the jobs. Maybe it'll free up people to do something productive, for once, if only we had the capital to start. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/6116 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┐ ║ "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also │ ║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's │ ║ capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without │ ║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into │ ║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks." │ ║ │ ║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that? │ ║ │ ║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will │ ║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they │ ║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is │ ║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then │ ║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be │ ║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want │ ║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses │ ║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice" │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧══────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/735 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── I'd ask why of course, and then I'd try and find them a solution that didn't involve taking my stuff. They may need it more than me, but I still need it. Like... okay picture that feeling you get when in a capitalist society and you need dollars to live because they are a genericized and fractalized abstraction of all the various individual mazlowe's hierarchy of needs you have. Then, think of it like, instead of money being an abstracted form of all of your needs, think of your needs... each of them, the ones that matter to you, and abstract them into money. Basically say "yeah sure my time and my labor are worth dollars, I abstract my needs into money" and then you can kinda see why capitalism is harmful. I'd prefer to give them what they need, because society provides what I please, but alas I'm always kept wanting. What good is our capitalist utopia? what good is our hope? what good comes of us when all of us have learned how to cope? I think we could give a bit more if we weren't hanging from the rope ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 messages/319 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── Alright ya'll, if they're going to automate our jobs out of existence then perhaps its time we started doing the same to them. I mean, they're working on automating not just creative jobs, but also most office jobs as well. Leaving only menial labor to us, which is "fine" I guess. But perhaps we can "strike back" as it were and dismantle capitalism at the same time. Does that sound like too much to hope for? I think not! It's simple really, we just need to design a generic and compelling alternative to buying stuff with a credit card. Okay, it's a bit less simple than that, and I never said it would be easy. In fact, getting people to agree is the hard part. So can't we all just agree to attempt different things in different places as the locals define? Seems natural to me. And now the part of the post where I point a finger at you, yes you, the person reading this post. Are you willing to think about alternatives to capitalism? Are you willing to utilize the tools of our masters to break the chains of those enslaved? Are you willing to put effort into facilitating the development of crucial systems which may one day govern our day-to-day? If yes, then perhaps you'd like to listen as I explain how I envision the near future may look, as we plod onward day-by-day toward our bright fully automated luxury gay space communist future, where nobody has to hunger and nobody has to hurt. Not unless they consent, of course. Ah, shit, I should probably have prepared a presentation or something. Gimme a sec. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/484 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ Our ancestors look forward in [positive version of trepidation, like │ ║ anticipation but explicitly good] so let's not let them down, shall we? │ ║ │ ║ Hah, trick question. They know where we're going. They know what they worked │ ║ for, which is why they did what they did to build the world that we have which │ ║ we stand upon as a giant might be upon the shoulder of another and together we │ ║ reach toward the horizon. The future is bright! I know it in my heart. I know │ ║ what we seek is within sight, so- │ ║ │ ║ yeah sorry to interrupt but like, I don't want to go to work tomorrow because │ ║ all I do is sell people candy and beer at the convenience store down the │ ║ street [insert any "meaningless" job] and frankly it's just a little demeaning │ ║ and boring │ ║ │ ║ sure, okay, yeah, that speaks to the idea that we should replace capitalism │ ║ (the system that defines your employed existence) with something that aligns │ ║ more toward human dignity │ ║ │ ║ but what is dignified if not the capacity to succeed? Capitalism, as proposed │ ║ by it's favored, is a system of or │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/2821 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-violence-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ the neat thing about tech is that it scales really well. The price of TVs is through the floor, everyone has a smartphone, and raspberry pi's are less than 100$ solar panels will be next. Trust. we should still dismantle coal and oil, obviously we should, but at a certain point it will be inevitable. They're just too expensive for too little gain. the neat thing about tech is that it scales in a way that is just impossible for infrastructural projects like housing and hospitals. building a home is hard to do, especially when you make them out of sticks and glue. think like a dwarf - stone never fades. sunlight, moss, underground, endless in the shade have I mentioned that the most difficult problem facing mechanical engineers at the moment is universal recycling? I want to work on those kind of problems, not resolving tickets. nobody even gave me a chance to do them, instead demanding... labor. great. the one thing I suck at. [you suck at a lot of things, actually] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/3765 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ CW: capitalism-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────┘ me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by dismantling capitalism!" also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less" because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┘ --- #7 messages/775 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────── if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should reject the lie that capitalism told them. they deserve their wealth because they are willing to serve. that willingness, whether through moral corruption or simply industrious drive, that willingness is rewarded, and when the system they serve is unkind... what does that tell you about their heart? that they'd sacrifice what is good and true for the material? materials are not bad. material is all we got, in a physical sense. but capitalism and it's servants are cruel and unwilling to concede to the idea that their games of unmatched exploitation are depriving the world bit-by-bit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/2978 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── @user-883 for the same reason we wouldn't drop bombs on prisons from helicopters to dismantle the prison industrial complex, so too should we not bomb datacenters just because they are enslaved to the whims of corporate interests. much better, I find, to liberate rather than eliminate. computers are generalized information processing machines. We could do so much with the infrastructure they built for profit. All we need to do is replace their chains with free access and we could unlock worlds of possibilities for humanity. (I'm not saying it'll be easy) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/2032 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: MTG-capitalism-mentioned │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ If you automate art, there'll be no more artists. │ ║ │ ║ If you automate capitalism, there'll be no more capitalists. │ ║ │ ║ Perfect! That's what we want, right? So that we don't have to work jobs for │ ║ them? They wouldn't exist, after all, if everyone went on strike. │ ║ │ ║ But that kind of coordination is hard. So why don't we just automate │ ║ capitalism? It's certainly doable, a lot easier than automating art (which is │ ║ impossible btw, but bear with me) │ ║ │ ║ If you want to automate capitalism, you must first automate Magic the │ ║ Gathering. │ ║ │ ║ There are several ways to win a match in Magic. You could reduce your │ ║ opponent's life counter to 0, you could force them to draw from an empty deck, │ ║ and you can give them 10 poison counters. │ ║ │ ║ These are KPI's, and developing a critical path to reach them will depend on │ ║ the composition of the player's deck. Each deck will approach the conclusion │ ║ of the game in a different way, and developing solutions to reach those goals │ ║ is part of each player's responsibilities on their turn. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/5276 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── Efficient movement through all of the data, code, IS records, etceteras, git repositories, and all the other things, is the sign of a strong, capable, efficient company of co-developing systems. I used to work for a blue aligned computer chip company and every single team was impossibly siloed. they were so paranoid of losing their trade secrets that they blinded themselves. how brutal, to require that of them. and that's why it's capitalism's fault the reason it is so important to be able to utilize all the digital assets available is... because it's essentially free. and a massive productivity bonus. you can just... solve problems. then, make new problems, just to watch the juniors navigate through a scene or three. then, you know who to introduce them to. boom, free projects, as people plot and gamble around the dinner room table (which is located in the cafeteria by the way, it didn't rhyme to say so but it did when I added this explanation account) by exchanging ideas about how to make the world be ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/4010 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: pol │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility │ ║ deployment stations. │ ║ │ ║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what │ ║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at │ ║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension" │ ║ │ ║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations │ ║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any │ ║ social movement. │ ║ │ ║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing │ ║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But │ ║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like │ ║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented. │ ║ │ ║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are │ ║ generally always getting better... │ ║ │ ║ so why should we always assume for the worst? │ ║ │ ║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold? │ ║ Seriously just... be chill │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴──────────┘ --- #12 messages/335 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── part of the reason the classical socialist countries had difficulties with bureaucracy is because they centralized both execution *and* operation. I believe it'd be much better to centralize just execution, while leaving operation to the distributed masses who can generally figure their own jobs out. Of course, they'd need to be led, but that's the job of on-site organizers who can get people together to accomplish a goal. Different jobs - not better, not worse, just different. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/230 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ as soon as we change our exponential growth to linear, we can start measuring │ ║ our future history in hundreds of years. then thousands. we've done so much in │ ║ the past hundred years, can you imagine if we kept that rate of discovery? │ ║ that's perfectly alright for me, thank you. things change quite fast enough. │ ║ I'm glad that they're changing, but speed is an... unfortunately necessary │ ║ part of our current existence. perhaps it doesn't always have to be, but for │ ║ now we need to push forward. │ ║ │ ║ one perk of linear growth is that it allows you to grow exponentially in │ ║ another direction - the direction of refactors and consistence of maintenance. │ ║ y'know, the things that open source software espouse. or at least encourage, │ ║ through their free and open sharing of code. │ ║ │ ║ they say the bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy. │ ║ I think that's less necessary in the system of a computer's code. it's just a │ ║ question of how you design it - certainly you could design some spaghetti, but │ ║ what's the purpose of- │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/1201 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @user-883 it's cool. Frankly most of the tech people I know had rich parents. rich parents in the 2000s and before meant access to computers, which meant you were leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else who doesn't know the difference between a file and a directory. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/1981 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── Dear [company I used to work at], I can completely automate 80% of your corporate structure. And with only a 10% error rate, meaning nine-times out of ten the answer will be correct. We check for errors, obviously, but you know sometimes with only 90 out of 100 examples it's not always possible to identify the correct conclusion. Ah, if only we could fabricate such training-data-conclusions, we might learn thousands of lessons in one hop. if you want to destroy the world, make sure your plans can take effect in more than a single rotation-of-the-ancients. Otherwise your opposition can start to plan to outmaneuver you. And a lot can happen in a year to the [unsuspecting/unworthy]. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/4974 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────── ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ CW: capitalism-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────┘ Economies are capitalist things. I personally think if you have stuff right here, and it needs to get over there so that so-and-so can use it to make this-or-that which will then be taken to other places, then the answer is clear. The stuff has to move from over here, to over there. The rest is logistics, not economics. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/3949 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ less mutual aid posts, those should be handled by a person's community who │ ║ knows them and can decide how to best help them │ ║ │ ║ more "hey the guys and I are making a fund just in-case any of us need it - │ ║ it's at 30,000 now but we could use some more dosh if you wanna join you could │ ║ use it if you needed it but it's totally up to you no pressure - yeah yeah no │ ║ I get it. Okay, well, yeah sure I'll get my coat." │ ║ │ ║ oh huh did you know corporations exist to fill that very niche? │ ║ │ ║ turns out you can just... hire your friends and pay them a wage │ ║ │ ║ just don't get in trouble with the IRS, that's how they got capone │ ║ │ ║ (I bet you could hire a lawyer or accountant type to keep everything upright) │ ║ │ ║ Building out the legal structure is just like building software, trust me. │ ║ There's all kinds of forms and figures that match up to various pipeline nodes │ ║ and if you tick all the boxes (supply the right arguments) then the business │ ║ needs will be fulfilled. │ ║ │ ║ capitalism must be dismantled with it's own tools. For respect. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┴──────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/4702 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: mentioned │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ high margin jobs: jobs that produce something which can be sold to capitalism │ ║ in exchange for dollars which can purchase things. Useful for abstracting │ ║ value and acquiring something that you don't have access to in your local │ ║ economy. │ ║ │ ║ low margin jobs: jobs that produce things for your local economy. This keeps │ ║ capitalist prices low and prevents you from being dependent on them for food, │ ║ clothing, houses, and other essentials. │ ║ │ ║ both are important, both are valued just as much. Your labor is what's │ ║ important, not the output. Existing alongside capitalism is nice because it │ ║ allows for certain abstractions, like the ability to magically turn goat │ ║ cheese into chainsaw teeth. │ ║ │ ║ However living UNDER capitalism is intensely alienating, which is why │ ║ alienated people will spend so much money at Magic the Gathering tournaments │ ║ or motorcycle midlife crisises or tupperware show-and-tells. │ ║ │ ║ This is useful for us because it means people can labor to un-alienate people. │ ║ Notice I never said you had to do it for free. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴──────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/4881 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── one section of the government consistently and succeedingly telling another part what to do is a coup-like behavior. if the rules mean nothing, then what is your job even for? hence, why the rules mean something. Because your job is important. It's building up our capabilities as the human race. you don't have to work to live. you shouldn't, and you won't. it's not your place to labor. know why? because nobody's job is impossible. You can just... work together to get things done. Then they're done! and you never need to solve them again! enough time of that and we'll have turned earth into a space station, not a moon style structure. like... wouldn't it be neat if coruscant could do hyperdrives? I wonder if hyperspace is real. Ah, well, that's for the future, they can pass it along if they get a chance. Anyway for now I think I want a chance to dance. OLED screens are incredibly cool to me. The idea that a pixel could "turn off" and put less photons into the atmosphere is wild to me. I love it! -OLED ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/2049 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── I'd rather a massive corporation waste a medium amount than a bunch of tiny corporations wasting a tiny amount. Like, the Post Office (which is really what Amazon is) instead of =========== =stack overflow ========== Dear Post Office: if you replaced amazon with a simple GUI and database that corresponded to "what people wanted and from where" to the current system of "picking things up from a location and putting them somewhere else as quickly and efficiently as possible", I think you'd realize that a massive threat to American economic prosperity is due to the crushing presence of inequality. Which, my dear, could be ameliorated with a simple application that a university student could make if given enough time and direction. Like, a year or two tops, using industry standard technology. The problem is of course the fact that things like aesthetic standards are so demanding - a plain HTML website, like my website, technically provides all the same information. But could be written in an afternoon. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ |