U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system that made them rich

Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by tsunamifury on Sunday April 21, 2019 @12:37PM (#19712929)

I’d like to believe what you are saying, but it sounds a bit like the cows have control of the farm because the farmer needs the milk. All the farmer does is pain-optimize to the cheapest possible conditions that keep cows alive and milking. Which turns out is locking them in stalls and force feeding them hormones.

People are just realizing now we’ve become the cows needed to legeitimize the capital that is milked back out of us. I agree though that UBI is just trying to juice that feedback loop in the most superficial way possible. Like cows deciding that more hay and hormones will somehow free them. (It won’t)

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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by _bxg1 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @12:45PM (#19712981)

Yet if the cows stopped producing milk, the farmers would simply let them all die off. And to stretch the metaphor, while the cows produce milk they have the option of unionizing. Saying "we'll all quit if you don't treat us better" only works while they care if you quit.

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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by jschwartzi on Sunday April 21, 2019 @12:55PM (#19713049)

Sure you can unionize but we'll just contract out your jobs.

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