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humanspiral@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote BrazilEnglish0·1 day agoThe plane was registered to Zambia
checks out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa–Zambia_relations
UBI removes the slavery. If you, or strawman, insists on a labour supremacist society, rather than a shortage of willing linemen, there might be a shortage of employers investing in a working power distribution system. There are many policies in between our current supremacist slavery that eliminate the structural slavery.
You need linemen? Call enough people to train them with promised starting salary when they complete training. Or pay them some salary during training. Or increase the promised starting salary. Enough people will say yes if you keep improving offer.
Your examples are already “good jobs” relative to say roofing (statistically most dangerous occupation).
ROI exists/dominates investment decisions under private or social/communal ownership. Let’s say your country imposes a fixed price to pay you per bushel of wheat. The decision to buy a tractor is completely independent of how equal the ownership in the farm(s) is.
Adam Smith’s justification for capitalism relied on an imaginary “perfect information” mechanism. He did see some centralized governance need to prevent the market corruption of monopoly/cartels, but was relatively silent on need for regulation (say health inspections of restaurants) as a way to avoid food poisoning, or everyone magically knowing that a food poisoning victim was poisoned at a specific restaurant. Though, its possible to theorize that restaurant inspection can be done by multiple private/social organizations. none of the options are immune to corruption if there is a “free market” for politicians/bribery.
Not enough people want to deal with waste systems or sanitation yet those are critical to any society.
These are often highly paid, highly desirable, union jobs. Many have missed OP’s point that the coercive slavery that exists in our society is that the threat of starvation/homelessness means less power for individual labour vs employers or vs competing with employers. There is some $ offer that will get me to unclog your toilet.
I had breakfast this morning, and my fridge is full for the week. That doesn’t mean I will refuse all wage offers for my time. If there is no slavery, then workers will get 5 recruiter calls per day begging them to take their clients’ money.
Adam Smith “sold” capitalism on the virtue of “free and fair markets”. Capitalism, as a practical understanding today, is the supremacy of capital, oligarchist protectionism, and corporatism. Only fair markets (those without coercion and lies, including structural coercion) are free. Adam Smith did not define/sell capitalism as structural coercion of society to maximize ROI for those with capital. Actually the opposite, where “perfect competition” was supposed to result from free and fair markets. Monopoly/cartels generate higher ROI than competition.
UBI/freedom dividends is the path for free and fair markets for labour. It also naturally increases ROI, where investment includes work/time, where the freedom to refuse unfair work means higher pay for work, including higher returns on capital/management, if competition needs higher returns for their work too. But, most important to ROI, redistribution and high pay, means significant increase in demand/GDP, and more work available to satisfy that demand.
The reason UBI is resisted, is not that the rich cannot get much richer from UBI. It is that UBI redistributes power instead of wealth. Those in power, have more power under slavery than by giving away their power (freedom) to the people. Oligarchy needs control over power to protect their oligarchy. After your first $B, what is the point of more money if not to enforce harsher slavery to limit competition to your next $Bs.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech0·2 days agoIf the country was “fixed”/doing awesome, forecasts for 3 fed cuts by December wouldn’t be current. Labour Statistics department head wouldn’t be fired for giving bad news.
The bigger problem no matter economic health is “our hate speech is free speech. Your/any criticism, or just concern about the right of criticism, is radical left damaging the country”
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Privacy@lemmy.ml•The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitcoin Self Custody63·5 days agobig deal, and fascism. NATO colonies copying the fascism is to be expected. Spirit of 2nd amendment is spirit of right to resist.
Patriot Act’s name is meant to distract from fascist powers within it, and while bitcoin is not super anonymous if you use techniques that are now recommended to “crackdown”, there is improvement.
Bitcoin’s superiority over gold is the ability to move to a more welcoming jurisdiction without border confiscation, or luggage weight, concerns, and so US/Colonies crackdown on “definancialization rights” may well lead to wealth drain from the empire.
easy fix… if infinity return false.
mathematical breakthrough bonus proof: all numbers are neither even nor odd.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist?0·7 days agoAnti-zionazi??? The single issue that determines candidates for office in both parties is loyalty to Israel. DNC approval more important than RNC. The Green party only ever saying/doing anything 2 months before elections is as close to proof of being a RNC vote splitting organization.
We have the technology for liquid democracy. Every citizen has the right to vote on every issue, or delegate their vote to anyone they trust, who can delegate further. Sure, an administrator should exist for purposes of instant reaction to emergencies, and subject to continuous confidence votes when out of emergencies, but liquid democracy is only actual democracy. What we have is who gets the most money/zionist media love to make them look good when kissing babies or making promises of improving lives, but just implement zionazi warmongering once elected.
Oh ok… I was confused about either being Forth or language equivalents class to ruby on rails.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.works•1981 asbestos ad0·8 days agoSilverstein, owner, had a $1B asbestos removal problem in 2001.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.works•1981 asbestos ad0·8 days agojet fuel cannot melt asbestos-steel beams.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries0·12 days agoSummary is very significantly understated. China is very far ahead in robotics, and AI is at least on par. Manufacturing and construction being far ahead makes everything important far ahead. Military production capacity and “military tech value”, where quantity is quality, has China far ahead.
From summary, this is denial meant to spur more government investment in a competition that is already lost using a corrupt US oligarchist model of privatized profit enhancement without any concern for produced value.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Florida Decided There Were Too Many ChildrenEnglish0·12 days agobut, but… I’m rich. Eating children much easier solution. They can’t even vote or buy politicians. You’re just being political.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Florida Decided There Were Too Many ChildrenEnglish0·12 days agoSocial security is going bankrupt. Many retirees in FL. If we allow 5-10 year olds to exist, then 60 years from now they are just going to make my share of SS smaller.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically RejectEnglish0·13 days agoThis is definitely the wrong “motive structure” for administrative decisions from agency supposed to provide healthcare. Proof of grift as a goal.
By all means, use AI assistance to determine claims validity. But the AI service should be paid per query, or to licence whole model for unlimited use with medicare paying for the computers/gpus. Medicare should be choosing a model that is accurate instead of one that is paid to deny everything, because Homer Simpson’s birdy automation can do that ultra cheap.
I’m not speaking for anyone else, just solving OP’s truth with UBI/Freedom dividends as the solution. Free and fair markets are not evil. Complex systems to have random people enslaved to be linemen for a day seem categorically unworkable. A system that ensures enough linemen willing to receive great pay to be linemen is workable.
UBI/Freedom dividends means minarchism power redistribution. People need to be well below idiocracy intelligence to not prefer higher dividend to demonic warmongering budget. I disapprove of ultra centralized allocations, if only that any socialist, or other idealist, win to implement it, in an Israel first fascist media environment, leads to right wing fascist takeover of the centralization. US corrupt political/media system requires disempowerment. UBI/Freedom dividend only election platform is only possibility of ending the corruption. It’s much more important than voting itself.