Cash isn't going anywhere. Cryptocurrency might. It is primarily used for money laundering and crime.

Honestly if they just crack down on the money laundering it goes away overnight.

Sure, that's a reasonable approach, if you can keep it up. But evidence says we can't.

"Capitalism forces the worst people to keep each other in check."

Yeah we can see how well that works when they all go fuck kids on the same island.

It's called gambling.

Which is ironic because they completely do support that happening for the owning class, but not for them, even though they are promoting their own demise by supporting that class.

Nothing will ever change because so far it hasn't. I'm glad you were here to clear that up for us. Thank you

You use it because it's a layer between you and whoever you're paying. It lets you dispute charges. And you don't have to give anyone direct access to your cash.

This time is already different. You don't need a crystal ball, you need glasses.

The people at Debian who chose to adopt systemd with less than the usual amount of debate, and at other distributions as well. I thought you participated in these discussions at the time? Guess not.

sysvinit has never stopped me from booting, but systemd has. In fact I got into a situation where in order to troubleshoot booting, I would have had to use a debugger. That's when I noped out forever.

sysvinit with startpar and the LSB-derived daemon management boilerplate is more than adequate. If you want to use another init system, feel free, but there is absolutely no justification for deprecating sysvinit. You do not need sleep commands, you need to read the headers of some init scripts and see that they contain dependency information, then use dependency chaining to ensure that scripts fire in the correct order. It's really not different from filling out the appropriate fields of a unit file.

Middle class jobs? They sure don't fucking pay like middle class jobs. Most people who think they are in the middle class are in fact not.

That's not how it's going to work. In the past you'd replace people with automation and then they'd go get a job that was harder to automate. Well, now the job that's harder to automate requires a four year degree or better, and they're looking at automating that job away as well.

Humanity punted on sharing the wealth when this became an issue, but now there's no more time to waste not solving it, because we're at an inflection point. You're going to care if your job is lost to automation today if the other job you were going to do is lost to automation tomorrow.

Nobody said otherwise but you had to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that you missed the point.

The Luddites didn't say we shouldn't advance technology. They said that the advances in technology should benefit everyone, not just the capitalists at the top of the pyramid.

You are attacking a position that not even the Luddites held. Enjoy playing with your straw man, but you are adding absolutely nothing to the conversation.

You mean the nuclear playboys agitating to spend OUR MONEY on foolish bullshit that we don't need, and in fact we'd get more for OUR MONEY elsewhere? Your childish vagueposting doesn't specify and there's no need to announce your departure as this is not an airport, just fuck off already.

So when the job market collapse is the tax base collapses with it.

That means you can no longer afford police.

It also means that in a country with more guns than people you have millions of people with nothing to lose and no police to keep them in line.

I know a lot of right wingers who are looking forward to this because they think that means they get to shoot people.

So here's the thing yeah maybe you get to shoot the first punk who tries to break in and raid your fridge.

What about the next punk? And one after that? By the 5th or sixth one they get around off and it hits you in the shoulder. You can't hold your rifle anymore. You switch to a pistol but you're not as good with that. The next one gets your wife because of it maybe one of your kids or your dog. Now you're alone and five or six of them show up this time and gun you down.

The baby boomers don't mind this because they're old and they have nothing left to live for so they think it sounds cool to go out guns blazing. In reality you're lying there with a slug in your gut slowly bleeding out but you don't think about that until it's happening.

Meanwhile civilization has collapsed in your 401k has been stolen by a trillionaire so you're living off cat food.

And you made it a point to think about absolutely none of this. Because you've seen way too many Clint Eastwood movies

You're not accounting for lifecycle footprint, and you're also using an irrelevant metric. We have lots of room for solar.

It's not an either-or discussion? So you're going to pay for both things to happen? Because here in the really real world, budgets are finite.

You seem to be latched on to numbers that don't matter in order to justify your OOH NEATO GLOWING ROCKS MAKE POWER fetish.

You need to come up with an answer to that and you need to do it fast. Nobody likes having "their" money taken from them and given to somebody else. We just had a thread about a California billionaire tax and half the comments were people convinced that if we tax billionaires a few percentage points than the next step is to take their fucking houses... That's not an exaggeration.

We are not socially equipped to deal with a work shortage. It doesn't matter how many times you speak reasonably nobody wants to hear it. The average American reads at the level of a 12-year-old and that implies that they think at the level of a 12 year old. Which is why black and white phrases like, if you don't work you don't eat, are so popular.

I am open to suggestions but I want to be clear that explaining to people is not a solution. Like Ronald Reagan said when you're explaining you're losing