What has happened over the past 30 years is the capture of the world’s common treasury by a handful of people, assisted by neoliberal policies which were first imposed on rich nations by Thatcher and Reagan.

At some point, there is so much 'inbreeding' in all good boy clubs that they collapse....then the society that they work in.

Particularly useful for the Airbus since they crash so often.

Most probably because they've never explored their world and

probably don't give a shit enough to put out the money for quality.

...their kids will have none.

AI/intelligent machines will be producing everything then...at no cost.

They'll be able to do what they want, when they want.

This kinda shit was built by Demicans.

It's what turned me into a Political Atheist.

I stand on their collective desk and piss on their heads.

It's a people store out there.

But maybe you like it better alone.

Sometimes I do, sometimes not but I've learned to appreciate aloneness.

I don't watch TV w/ commercials.

I guess I'm left out.

Too bad, not so sad-

'No one is indispensable' now arrives with a vengeance.

Not to worry. They can do anything so much better and hugely cheaper than mistake prone humans, we'll eventually be living high on that piggy for nothing.

Sounds like the answer to: What do the transvestite and the transhumanist have in common?

I couldn't resist.

Well, I'll be....and all this time I never knew it went anywhere.

EDIT: The academic mind seems quite quantum to me: If it's looking for it it's there, if not, it's not.

But now that I think on't, that's the way we're all built. The academics are just more vocal about it.

Consider the source.

America's civilian nuclear technology cost a total of a trillion federal dollars yet delivers less energy than wood. The Economist says of nuclear power plants that “not one, anywhere in the world, makes commercial sense.”

Hot fusion research has received billions of dollars of Government money for over 50 years, AND HAS YET TO PUT A SINGLE WATT OF POWER INTO THE GRID.

There are tons of myths floating about, most perpetrated by pols and their minions.

The above is a classic example.

After all, what do they care.

It isn't their money building these Roads to Nowhere

That article was very unusual coming from The Economist, an MSM pitch-the-matrix rag.

The possibilities using the blockchain are mind-blowing.

IIRC there were Danes that farmed there some hundreds of years ago.

Wasn't fun enough for Just Bill.

Nicely said.

Decentralization and the end of topdownism seems to be driving change now.

Think about it.

|The Play store is every bit as dysfunctional as the App store without a credit card.

Correct and I can't be bothered with that which makes my device as useful as an anchor on a duck.

Someone that spent their whole life in a desert clime...or the Caribbean...or the South Pacific...is now very surprised to find this out.

A fine tale...

No, I didn't fill out the date form.

Not using it. It just shows up. Doesn't matter to me, one way or t'other.

I really don't know what you're talking about. I wasn't aware that I had and I don't believe I did.

Now I got it.

Thanks. Gonna report to bugski.

Is there a reason you're commenting on it in parentheses?

It would behoove the folks that buy that to study praxeology.

If I knew what you were talking about, I might be able to tell you.

Right now I think both of us are confused. I know I am.

Making just any old Earth Monkey a movie producer...

I don't have a clue.

Revel in it.

My favs are the composers of tone poems....even tho I mention particular pieces go for the name, see what they wrote ...in all cases read the story the music tells then listen. Some stories are obvious just in the title of what they wrote.:

Richard Strauss (fuggidabout Johann) Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (he was a banker during the day)

Respighi

Ravel

Debussy

...and many other tone poem composers

Whether you belong to Nahmy's school or the other one...commonly know as 'left' or 'right'...it's all moot now.

Everyone will soon be out of a job as AI/learning machines/bots take over production, management and distribution, the true Post Scarcity UnEconomy, where everything is done at very low or no cost. Bots have no need of money. I'm all for that even tho my or your desires are irrelevant.

Hint:

What will primarily speed up the arrival of the above is the deregulation of the capitalists. They will produce us to Post Scarcity, putting everyone out of work. Of course, raising the minimum wage also helps speed up the process.

Marx will not be a factor.

How we get from here to there is a topic for another post...but not by me.

P.S. Don't tell anyone but who will pay taxes in the above scenario, ergo what will become of government?