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Comment Re: Without my money (Score 1) 84

What you call destruction of service jobs, I would call the introduction to the age of plenty, and the end of the age of scarcity. There shouldn't be an "upheaval", but I know there will be. The haves are too good at dividing the have nots for them to stop.

You debunked your own comment, there's nothing for me to do here :)

Comment Re:Meh? (Score 1) 41

The source code is written in assembly

FTFS, "it's the first version of UNIX in which the kernel and some of the core utilities were rewritten in the new C programming language"

Put this source code in front of 99.9% of the people here on Slashdot and they'd be able to do nothing with it.

Yes, this place really has gone to shit.

Comment Re:Without my money (Score 1) 84

Some of the technologies that would enable space exploration could also help us with the goal of repairing our biosphere though.

Yes, but we could also develop the same technologies and then not spend the money going to space, and instead implement them here, and think about space exploration once we're sure we have a future.

Comment Labor is your most important resource (Score 2) 61

Anyone that is willing to show up and be paid less than what they produce is a gold mine. Party of the grift requires businesses to treat everyone like shit, make everyone feel that their work is meaningless, that they are easily replaced, and that they won't survive without a job. HR departments have grown to fill that need of corporate propaganda and overall management of the greatest grift in history.

Comment Re: Without my money (Score 1) 84

The game alpha centauri is a lot more applicable here. However what you are talking about requires future technology. You would need self repairing machines for that. While this is arguably semi-feasible (design machines to be more modular and therefore serviceable by robots which could swap modules) they don't exist yet. And once they do we will be too busy dealing with the upheaval from the destruction of service jobs to think about colonizing other planets or moons.

Comment Re:Rejecting my card... (Score 1) 143

I'm trying to look for a high cost card with lots of rewards, actually. I plan on using them at those establishments that refuse to take cash - either ones that are deliberately cashless, or ones that limit cash transactions.

Several times I go to buy something, I present a 20 and they refuse it asking if I have a card. A super-high-fee card would work well in this instance. You want me to use my card and not cash? Then you'll have to make it worth my while.

(I have more "normal" credit cards for regular transactions, I just don't want to be forced to use a credit card - it should be my decision).

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