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View Poll Results: What should we do about capitalism?
Replace it with socialism, through parliamentary reforms 5 15.63%
Replace it with socialism, through revolution 5 15.63%
Use more public regulations to counteract some of its consequences 13 40.63%
Scale down public regulations to let the free market run its course 6 18.75%
Nothing, it’s fine as it is 3 9.38%
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Old 10-14-2021, 11:27 PM   #151 (permalink)
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you really think that any amount of boredom would compel someone to punch a clock at some average job if they didn't need the money? Why wouldn't they just do something fun instead.

Also you never saw Chappelle show???? I mean roots...
I've watched retirement kill at least two of my family members. When you're not doing anything with your life, when you have no purpose, when no one expects you to show up somewhere, decline sets in. After a few months, it's like a gravitational pull.

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Old 10-14-2021, 11:29 PM   #152 (permalink)
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Yeah when you are ****in old as **** and have worked all your life... Those people are already tapped the **** out

You think if you won the lotto and quit your job at 30 you'd be dead in a year?
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Yeah when you are ****in old as **** and have worked all your life... Those people are already tapped the **** out

You think if you won the lotto and quit your job at 30 you'd be dead in a year?
Am I just not saying this right?

No. I don't think you'd be dead in a year. I'm saying a purpose is healthy. Mind you, if you're working at IHOP and you got UBI, you'd probably quit. But in time you'd make your way back to a career that's slightly more fulfilling.
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Old 10-14-2021, 11:34 PM   #154 (permalink)
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Old 10-14-2021, 11:39 PM   #155 (permalink)
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Am I just not saying this right?

No. I don't think you'd be dead in a year. I'm saying a purpose is healthy. Mind you, if you're working at IHOP and you got UBI, you'd probably quit. But in time you'd make your way back to a career that's slightly more fulfilling.
nah i agree a purpose is healthy but i don't feel like the majority of people find their purpose at work.. if anything maybe their purpose is to keep going to work so their kids get fed. But if the kids get fed anyway......
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I think Big3 is confusing a middle class job with working.
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A middle class job sounds like a boring menu option at a brothel
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I think Big3 is confusing a middle-class job with working.
Yes, I'm so confused. What is work? How does it happen?

I don't know why you think anyone finds purpose in middle-class office jobs. Have you worked one? What was your experience?

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nah i agree a purpose is healthy but i don't feel like the majority of people find their purpose at work.. if anything maybe their purpose is to keep going to work so their kids get fed. But if the kids get fed anyway......
I'll look for the article (I hope it's a thinkpiece so Frown will read it) but there was a post-AI job-type argument that said there are 5 or 6 C's that will constitute work that robots won't be used for. that's what I'm imagining people being slotted into. And that's generally where the fulfilment comes in. In helping other people.
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Yes, I'm so confused. What is work? How does it happen?

I don't know why you think anyone finds purpose in middle-class office jobs. Have you worked one? What was your experience?



I'll look for the article (I hope it's a thinkpiece so Frown will read it) but there was a post-AI job-type argument that said there are 5 or 6 C's that will constitute work that robots won't be used for. that's what I'm imagining people being slotted into. And that's generally where the fulfilment comes in. In helping other people.
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