lizzardbraind

There will probably be a gig economy, where you can pay spot rates for an idle Frank that could get a page and need to leave at any time.

Or maybe they'll handle things like call centers and 911 dispatch in their spare time.

It means that you're farming on someone else's land. Since you don't own the source of your income, the landowner could decide to evict you at any time, taking away your revenue.

TBF, that's Amazon's bailiwick. They try to invest as much as they can back into the business without netting a loss.

Grow, baby, grow. We'll see how that mindset survives the coming years, with Bezos out and gusty economic winds.

The Phantom Tollbooth.

Brian Jaques' Redwall series.

Try reading to them every night and let them pick it up.

Reminds me of the "Internet Argument" demotivational poster, which depicts a child and a mule shouting at each other.

Really, the core problem is centralization. If your website were a pub, you'd tell people to take it outside or 86 them.

Things can't work like that when most people will only patronize a small handful of enormous pubs.

If you let them vote, they'll vote to destroy their society.

If you don't let them vote, they'll act to destroy their society.

It would be emotionally satisfying, but ultimately destructive. It would also be ripe for abuse; imagine how awful it would be if we had secret lists of people who weren't allowed to do other normal activities, like air travel or vehicle registration.

Because the battery would be too heavy.

It's a 6x8mm cylinder, fingernail-sized. They're little pellets that get inserted into larger machines for medical imaging.

See also (or don't, it's a bit gruesome): the Goiânia accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

It's true - you might accidentally summon them.

Never say "Jack Welch" three times in front of a mirror with the lights off.