vonFalkenhawk

… aka the perfect recipe for endless deadlock and foreign entities trying to exert influence by “swaying” one member’s opinion. Decisions made by a qualified majority (2/3, 3/4) would be much more appropriate for today’s EU.

I wonder if UBI is more unsustainable, or unsustainable at all - imagine a future where most things can be produced so efficiently without the involvement of humans that the idea of not doing so is simply preposterous, akin to insist on using horses after motorization became widely available. Employing humans might incur a higher lost opportunity cost than simply paying everybody to do “nothing”. I’m using “” since all those people would of course do something, just not grind for bare survival or “the economy”, which is arguably isn’t necessary anymore, or at least not as necessary as it once was.

In a way, overcoming work (as in “unwanted compensated grind”) is a way to truly live up to our potential as humans because it asks the very basic question of “how to be?” outside of what for millennia was basic necessity or narrowly defined by society.

Sigh, one more thing for the list …

“Didn’t you have ads in the 21st century?”

“Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. Oh, and in our operating systems. But not in dreams. No siree!”

Already going “hybrid” when it comes to content and Netflix only survived the last round because family members voted “stay”. Not sure about the next time, especially since their little fabricated “crackdown” on sth. that was once not only tolerated, but actively encouraged definitely rubbed me the wrong way.