'We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.'

[KJ]

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“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller

 

[biohacker]

AI takeover in disguise.

 

[KJ]

AI takeover in disguise.

That is what we need. Automation is the savior of humanity.

 

[biohacker]

That is what we need. Automation is the savior of humanity.

Or the end of it.

 

[KJ]

Or the end of it.

Depends who gains possession of it.

 

[biohacker]

Depends who gains possession of it.

The elites obviously

 

[KJ]

The elites obviously

It is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one.

Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League in London (March 1850)

 

[biohacker]

It is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one.

Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League in London (March 1850)

Communists

Holy shit do you see what you reads? @Ohwell

 

[KJ]

Communists

Holy shit do you see what you reads? @Ohwell

Yes? What’s wrong with communism?

 

[biohacker]

Yes? What’s wrong with communism?

Read a history book nigga.

 

[KJ]

Read a history book nigga.

Authoritarian state capitalism isn’t communism, by the way.

 

[biohacker]

Authoritarian state capitalism isn’t communism, by the way.

Stalin and Mao were communists. No coping around it.

 

[KJ]

Stalin and Mao were communists. No coping around it.

The Soviet Union and China weren't and aren't communist. There hasn't been a 'communist country' and for one to actually be communist there can't even be a state in the first place.