So they literally did it for the lulz.

As a vegetarian constantly subjected to endless meat ads, do I feel your pain?

What if the engineers who implemented the flawed design said "take this job and shove it", knowing they had a strong inflation-proofed basic income to fall back on and program better things they actually wanted to use?

Why conflate economic and engineering efficiency? Do economists exploit the homonym to imply that economic efficiency is equivalent to engineering efficiency, hoping that no one notices the glaringly obvious divergence?

Are they serving me meat ads because they predict I'll give up vegetarianism, and how hallucinatory is that?

Remember when GUIs were bloat, then everyone got used to it?

Why do you think decoupling polices explicitly separate supply and demand? Was it motivated by vast electricity oversupply such that utilities would have to sell you less efficient machines to make profits?

Are we trying to self-fulfill that Philadelphia internet prophecy?

In other news, is Soylent Green people?

What if I lobbied the utility commission and showed them how utilities make more from investments and derivative hedges than they need to pay for operations and maintenance?

What isn't a scam? How accurate are the food labels? Is 100% juice really true or a hallucination?

British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws ...

The laws are:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.[2]

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.[2]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.[2]

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Is non-tax-funded basic income nonviolent, thus more moral, than antitrust, which relies on threats of state violence?