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All I'm hearing is fantasies from people who can't pay their rent/mortgage and would rather burn it all down without a plan than work a 9-5. But sure, we'll automate everything and no one will have to work and we can all live in big houses and play video games and post on social media all day.

I mean, obviously, I won't be automating everything. That sounds like work. Someone probably wants to solve all the problems, though. We can let them do it in their spare time while we chill. I presume that's you?

Honestly, it sounds awesome. Lmk when I can quit my job and not pay monthly bills.

So if I wasn't here- y'all would up and start building the utopia and get the septic robots working.

If you say so. Hey, you know what? Please go ahead and start working on those things regardless. If you manage to build an autonomous sewage worker, you could probably make a lot of money while you wait for the economic system to change. Feel free to comment with your progress, I wish you luck.

I'm not ignoring it at all, I even highlighted it in another comment above.

It is hard to beat the current system that encourages people to work a single profession for ~30 years 5 days a week in order to foster expertise. And somehow, (rightly or not) manages to make most of them feel like they do it willingly.

I am highlighting the very much more clearly forced labor that arises in communist systems. The kind that people can't gaslight themselves into thinking they do willingly. Which you seem to be ignoring as hard as you can. Stunning projection tbh.

It is hard to beat the current system that encourages people to work a single profession for ~30 years 5 days a week in order to foster expertise. And somehow, (rightly or not) manages to make most of them feel like they do it willingly.

Yes! Onward toward a USSR style system that somehow doesn't involve forced labor, comrade!

The ideal world isn't a realistic world unless you can solve for plumbing, etc. If the meme was tax the rich, I'd have upvoted and moved on. We should improve the world we have rather than strive for dreams.

Good question, we should probably tax the rich and make owning more than 3 homes illegal or something.

But if we're canceling mortgages, then why not strive for the ideal world, ya know?

You lack vision here. If we're canceling mortgages, then why not get rid of other expenses? Surely water heat and electricity are human rights and should be covered by taxes. And we could all likely agree on food as well. Why would we coerce people to work jobs they dislike? We could live our ideal lives if only we dismantled the economic system one layer at a time.

...just don't think about the details of how we'll encourage people to do dirty jobs or you'll get downvoted. That's bad vibes.

Plumbers make a lot of money for a reason, yes.

USSR style. We can all be our ideal selves. We can finally be writers and artists living in our own large single family homes who teach children on the side, but only when we feel up to it.

And no one has to be the guy who works on the sewers or anything unpleasant like that. Plus, maybe someone wants to do that work, idk. And if not, uh... robots can do it. Who builds, programs, hauls around, and uses the robots whose sole job is to unclog sewers? Uh, nerds, I guess. Or... other robots, maybe, idk.

There will be no need for forced labor at all under this new system.

Never was a fan of blaming the entire dumpster fire on the leader of the executive branch any more than I believe we should blame that leader for things like gas prices.

What exactly do we expect the leader of the executive branch to do when the leadership of the judicial branch invalidates a law written by the legislative branch many years ago when it was able to agree on such things.

How much power are we willing to cede to a single person (the president) as a result of our legislative branch being completely unable to function? The legislative branch creates laws, the judicial branch rules on if those laws are constitutional and the executive has a veto and controls the armed forces and foreign policy (among honestly, maybe too many other things). I feel like rewatching schoolhouse rock might be fun. Let's do that, huh?

The speed camera in question had 17,000 activations per year. Cut that fucker down or increase the speed limit. That's ~ two speeding tickets per hour. Every hour, day and night for an entire year.

Assuming most end with a reasonable fine, that single camera probably brings in over 700k per year.

Never play Star Citizen, even if it somehow becomes playable. Got it.

Kinda feels like you could make a 4 picture graph from each country with varying levels of grime.

Except NK, they probably only have the one spotless one.

Lol, who is this comment for?

Me: I don't like the level up system of an ancient RPG because I invariably feel drawn to minmax based on the design. It just sucks the fun out of the game for me every time I try.

You: Maybe relax and pretend not to have that issue.

Back up, he's a hero.

100%, well said!

I think the issue could be distilled down to the fact that women globally have been forced due to economic factors to choose the workplace over the home. It's a good idea for women to have equal rights in the workplace, and they should be able to choose a career over a family. But basically, every economy shifted to the point where now you need two average salaries to support a household. This means keeping one parent home to watch the kids is financial suicide for most families.

The results are fewer children, dumber children, and a shittier society. Tax incentives for having kids are a start, but not nearly enough to tip the scales at all.

My issue with Morrowind is the level up system where you gotta metagame it to get +5s for 3 stats per level if you want to be most efficient. And you gotta max endurance ASAP to gain the maximum potential health by end game. I simply can not handle it. It sucks the fun right out of the game for me.

Sounds to me like all your problems would go away with money. I wish I had a solution for you, sorry OP.

It is really weird how no one can imagine generations getting old. It's like they think millenial is slang for teens, and Gen z is slang for younger kids.