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The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
NY Times ^
| June 11, 2019
| Aaron Bastani
Posted on 06/11/2019 9:14:46 AM PDT by C19fan
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The author has watched too many episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:14:46 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
And you wonder why I don't read the New York Times with its parochial and sanctimonious attitude in 2019.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:18:46 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: C19fan
Or has taken too much drugs?
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:19:27 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: C19fan
I have huge doubts, but no more factory farming would be a blessing.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:21:07 AM PDT
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: C19fan
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
— Richard Brautigan (1967)
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:21:16 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: C19fan
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:23:22 AM PDT
by
karnage
To: Unassuaged
Call me crazy, but maybe, just maybe, food prices would be lower if our government didn't pay some farming businesses to not grow food. Ostensibly it's to help the ma & pa farmers by not letting food prices get too low for their farming business to survive.
But cheaper food prices is, again ostensibly, a goal of the left to help the poor.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:26:03 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: C19fan
Does NYT not want us to know that Communism is only good for those at the top, or are they too stupid themselves to know?
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:30:58 AM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: C19fan
The author has watched too many episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Yeah no kidding. Once they lick the obstacles on the replicator why bother going to work at all?
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:34:37 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: Tell It Right
My objection is moral, not economic.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:35:10 AM PDT
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: Buckeye McFrog
I wondered when we find out Captain Picard has a brother who runs the family winery how he sells his real wine when people do not have money.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:38:39 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I once had a Professor that said the only way Communism will ever work is if we get to a point technologically where nothing has any value anymore, basically like the replicator on Star Trek, you hit a button and anything you want materializes in front of you.
Personally I don't think it would work even then, it's simply against human nature. If it came to that point, people would compete over who had the biggest, fastest replicator or who could materialize the nicest house and clothes.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:39:39 AM PDT
by
apillar
To: jeffc
Anyone who espouses communism believes they will be “at the top”, or such an accomplice that those at the top will ensure they will never have to live like the masses.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:40:17 AM PDT
by
jughandle
(Big words anger me, keep talking.)
To: apillar
There are always things that cannot be replicated. Star Trek is filled with them. For example, Captain Kirk’s high rise apartment overlooking SF Bay, an original edition of “Tale of Two Cities”, Romulan ale, a signed baseball, etc. One still needs a price and monetary system to determine how these items get distributed.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:43:03 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Paid for by the ....... rich? Who won’t be around after their money is taken, then back to being enslaved.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:44:12 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: ClearCase_guy
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace "A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free"
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:47:58 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
To: C19fan
Throw in some maggots, crickets and inchworms too. For added flavor. Then eat the concoction, you f****** hypocrites! instead of eating caviar and fillet mignon, you filthy slobs! I’ll eat what I like.
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:49:41 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
To: C19fan
Communism only leads to starvation and death.
Read these for the REAL TRUTH about Communism !
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:51:01 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: jeffc
Yes, elite get chemical burger.
Workers get chemical potato. (When available, according to five year plan.)
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posted on
06/11/2019 9:51:32 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
To: C19fan
This ‘technology’ is essentially just cell culture - which has been around for a long, long, time. They are culturing myoblasts. It takes a whole lot of myoblasts to make a hamburger.. This requires lots of culture media, probably a variety of growth factors, and at the end of the day I would want a very, very extensive characterization of what’s in this before considering eating it. That said, it could work.
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