... will really love cow tracking. As the basis for a new Climate Commitment Act tax applicable to cows for burping methane.

But eventually, we can eliminate cattle. And return the prairies to their original inhabitants. The buffalo. Who will commence grazing and burping methane.

Good luck. The starter in my Rivian is broken.

Could it be that some people just want to get work done and not get stuck in interminable video conferences?

"Whoops! My network connection just went down." (Holding Ethernet plug in hand.)

You can't grab the source and build it for a newer architecture?

Socialism has an answer for that. We should switch now.

... get the same effect by walking through a homeless camp* and inhaling deeply.

*Transit buses are an option as well.

It's doing quite well at the bottom right now.

Instead of some lazy bums that hang around coffee shops, refusing to work and just sitting around, writing pamphlets. True Marxism would have handed him a broom and dustbin. And told him that this section of sidewalk was his responsibility.

"What do you mean, 'your hour of work is more valuable than that of the next peasant?' Sweep!"

A classless (true communist) society can't scale up beyond Dunbar's Number. They do work for groups like communes and small, isolated villages. Where everyone knows everyone else, what their skills are and who is/isn't getting work done. The latter are usually banished from the community, either returning the miscreant to "outside society" (this presumes the existence of an outside society willing to deal with your screw-ups). Or accepting the fact that the banished will probably be eaten by wild animals.

Once Dunbar's Number is exceeded, one needs some sort of bureaucracy to manage societal organization. One can't depend on markets, because that wouldn't be "fair". Someone with valuable skills could demand more than the average peasant, undermining the whole equity shtick. Likewise, resources (the means of production) must be managed by this bureaucracy. Since leaving decisions to the market would have workers with little/no skills under-funded. Again, "equity" rears its ugly head.

So, we need this bureaucracy. Made up of the self-appointed intellectuals. To "manage things". This creates a scramble to the top of the intellectual pile, lest you be left behind among the filthy proletariat to do actual work. Hence the tooth and nail fight to make it to the top of that pile. Which works until a government stabilizes under the winner of the scrum. Then, to protect themselves, the winner(s) must eliminate the also-rans. Much as Stalin purged anyone he felt to be a threat to his position. Or Richard III burying the princes that could challenge him in the walls of The Tower of London.

Market economies (capitalism) allow me to "own the means of production", but leave the wisdom of the masses to reward those with the best foresight. There is no "leader" or opinion-makers to self identify as having better brains than the others. If you are really smart, you'll 1) pick the winners and invest. And 2) keep your mouth shut about your big brains, lest the competition tries to front-run your strategies.

Someone figured out that socialism means you have to work. Even in a Star Trek economy, someone has to wear the red shirt.

So, how much for heated seats?

Let them come. The socialists have been heralding the post scarcity society. The Star Trek economy is approaching and the left is terrified. Seems someone just told them that the hammer and sickle symbolize labor.

Oblig joke: Computer scientists were putting the finishing touches on their first fully intelligent machine. Once booted up, they decided to test it with deeply philosophical question: "Is there a God?"

"There is now."

Are you certain that there's no one to the left of zero? I'd beg to differ.

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