America's #1 export is our stupidity. It was wild seeing MAGA in Poland and other places.

We've only had it over here for about 10 years or so - Amazon started it and all the other companies jumped on the bandwagon.

You're welcome! Being American in 2023 is like waking up to the fact that you're in Negan's colony.

Black week. Fuck i was put doing some light shopping yesterday and it was STILL black week. Over a week since black Friday lol

(fell for?) “Black” meaning profit,

You're correct The whitewashed version is 'its the first day of the whole year we are finally 'in the black' or not 'operating at a loss'

which is of course a bullshit statement by itself, but that's just more me ranting so I'll just leave it at that :D

a buck of 12”bully sticks?

A what of a what now?

Take advantage of the corporations.

Well, unfortunately i can't condone (or afford) this particular brand of subversion.

Because they can’t currently make the robots feel like they’re a piece of shit and not worthy of respect.

The robots at my facility moved shelves of product around a caged grid system for quick inventory and holdover until it gets packed by a person manning a station at the grid. It flashes a projector light on which slot to grab from, you scan it, and the robot drives away with the shelf. There's a robot arm too, but it's job is to just stack plastic totes in a 3x3 stack on a pallet, then a conveyor pushes the full ones to the side

It is wholly negative, and I develop automation and AI stuff for a living. The issue is that as automation accelerates, population growth will still be exponential as it has always been. That means fewer and fewer workers needed while the population continues to explode. Without obscenely massive reforms to society and law, we are careening towards a social and economic collapse the likes of which we have contemplated. Stop for a second and think what just Amazon fully automatic packing centers would mean. A few million people are working in those facilities. What happens when they are all fired because Amazon automates their jobs? There are moved to automate fast food production as well. Burger flipping robots already exist. Cashiers are being replaced with apps and kiosks in every McDonald's. Those jobs make up the bottom rung in the economic chain.

In the US, 60% of the population already lives below the realistic poverty line (not the legal one, because that one is a joke). What happen a when you unemployed > 2% of the entire population in less than a year? That isn't the working-age adult population, that is all of us. At the same time, cut social safety nets, remove consumer protections, and deregulate rent.

I am not trying to be a doomsayer, I am just realistically looking at the whole of the trajectories of our society. Unfortunately, those trajectories carry us over a rather dystopian cliff. Tell me you honestly believe that a realistic and functional UBI will ever happen, even when there are 5 employees to every job, so 80% of us are finctionally incapable of obtaining gainful employment?