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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I was literally mid conversation with an online acquaintance Sunday about just this. I wish I’d had this video then, though I sent it to him anyway to explain that what he’s been told is wrong. The funny part is that this doesn’t even account for fully automated manufacturing that is beginning to expand in some key industries in China (see Xiaomi “dark factory”) which will reduce the need for human labor. Imagine getting so automated that in order for your entire country to have a good life, all able bodied people needed to work like one short shift a week. You could spend the remaining hours interacting, incenting new stuff, learning stuff, making art, or just resting and enjoying life.













  • China is not even the USSR (although I wish they were), they’d leave the US alone if Uncle Sam would just stop trying to goad them into senseless fighting.

    I’d argue that China would do one better and find a win win cooperation if the USA would just act in good faith (as if they ever have). China has repeatedly shown to be peaceful in general. That’s not to say they’re a perfect utopia or anything but they at least appear to operate in good faith and with the intention of improving material conditions.




  • That and “inflation” (read: greed inherent in capitalism) driving prices up beyond reason. Even when I have enough spare change for fast food, I save it and make food at home, it’s just not a good value proposition anymore. It used to be I saved enough in my own labor to justify paying a little bit but now it’s literally less expensive, even accounting for my own labor, to cook at home.