if income to spend on consumer products is the only point to a job then the job is still pointless and doesn't need to be done. They could just give said person a paycheck for doing nothing and achieve the same effect, and there is in fact a movement to do just that.

Come to Milwaukee, WI sometime and behold a dirth of bars that only accept cash because they don't want to pay transaction fees or deal with drunk people running up tabs they can't pay for

Bust unions and then pay employees half as much, at least that's what Elon's got to is.

I have a laptop, a camera, and a GPS, all of which are better stat wise than any smart phone. When I leave the house you can get a hold of me still, but I'm not distracted by my addiction to trolling Facebook political pages. Having the internet at every waking moment is often more of an inconvenience than it's worth, and if I REALLY have to look something up it can usually wait until I get home. The only thing I don't like about it is that everyone just assumes I'm poor, but with a hipster marketing campaign like this I can keep my flipphone and not be a social outcast, I call that a big win for Motorola, it's a smart move.

http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/980707-03-a.html

Flexfuel vehicles, the difference between running efficiently on ethanol and not is just a software hack

the terms aren't mutually exclusive, an oligarchy of plutocrats if you will...

But the people who were directly effected by crab fishing regulations would vote on crab fishing regulations and you wouldn't be put on in any way regardless of which way they vote. I see a system in which people only vote on the laws that matter to their life, it would certainly be more effective than a career politician making decisions about things they themselves have no interest or understanding of.

Except the constitution didn't really stop tyrants from grabbing power. If you believe the Princeton studies the US is an oligarchy run entirely at the whims of plutocrats. The constitution was ratified so that the aristocrat class could give the federal government enough power to collect funds and pay back war debts to France. It was written by a bunch of rich white men in secret without any input from the public, to pretend they had the best interests of the common man at heart is laughable, I mean they argued over whether slaves were people for fucks sake.

Also, let us not discount the low tech ways in which the voting system is rigged. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and endless pools of advertising money psychologically manipulating people to change their votes. There is no perfect government, but given how awful what we have is I for one would be willing to risk something new.

Your roommates steal all the phone chargers so you have to charge your phone at work.

Just make biodiesel from these crazy life forms that sequester carbon from the CO2 air using energy from the sun, I think they call them "plants". Or Audi could buy out the patent and make cars that just run off of vegetable oil. This seems like a really convoluted way to get diesel when you can just take hempseed oil and add methanol.

He's not going to get a building named after him ever...