Neat! For those OOTL, what is this card for and what makes it legendary? That is not addressed in the article at all.

Same amount that we do on earth!

Meet people where they are.

It’s even more bleak than that. Politically, the bargaining power of the masses is from the labor they contribute. As soon as the need of human labor is gone, there is absolutely no reason for those with power to heed the will of the populus. You can say open revolt, but if we’re talking a situation where any significant portion of the military is automated, uprisings are no longer a concern.

Excellent write up. Appreciate your time!

I have a system dynamics question! Maybe you could point me in the right direction? If I have the system response to a step input, what is the simplist way to derive the transfer function? I’ve only ever learned how to use a system to do modeling, not how to reverse engineer the model.

Yeah, the clankers would have to learn all new inside jokes to try and fit in elsewhere. Might as well stay and chat with all of the other bots just like them!

That’s a noble goal. This is basically the biggest argument against collectivism. If you don’t have even a framework for addressing it I doubt you will get much support for your ideas.

This is meta, a democratic structure in the military of the democratic nation fighting authoritarianism.

And let’s say 95% of people act civilly, but 5% of the population is extremely greedy. How do you limit the greedy from drinking all the ale and not contributing to the community?

Can you explain your non- currency economy for those of us without that much imagination?

Does trade still exist?

If so what is the medium of exchange?

How is value evaluated?

No one would work fast food or retail, but that might be ok.

I’m very confused about your comment.

a) Is it not okay to use ‘big boy’ words? Do you disagree with the statement or just with the diction?

b) The second point you make has nothing to do with my comment. I’d have thought you accidentally responded to the wrong comment except for you pointing out ‘insular’. Why are these things relevant to the discussion?

It’s also written by people in an agrarian culture so different than our culture today. The fact that it is still relevant at all is amazing. Like this is around the time germ theory was first proposed. Imagine if we still relied on a single document as the guiding principle for medicine established before germ theory was widely accepted.

There are faults with the founding fathers and their documents, but it amazes me how well the constitution has endured, not as an important document, but as a relevant document addressing issues we have today.

Bottom right corner ok? Could use a face down there.

Lemmy does seem to have some insular thinking (just like all social media communities). Feels like you can actually have discussion and at least learn why people hold those views instead of just being chastised.

Non-violence was successfully used in the US during the civil rights protests. The quote feels correct for those protesting because change is slow and there are certainly some people without conscious. The non-violence movement displayed very clearly the oppressor and the oppressed and it eventually swayed public opinion enough to lead to lasting political change.

Markets don’t necessarily need profit incentive, just that different people have different preferences for the things being offered. There are examples where markets are created and used to allocate resources where the exchange currency isn’t even money, such as time banks.

“Duplication” of production is not inefficient from a macro economy perspective. First it provides supply chain redundancy, second it typically incentivises innovation. If you assume a centrally planned economy (which is the typical opposite of market based in discussions) both of these benefits of duplication hold in theory.

Probably an unpopular opinion here, but a competitive market is an excellent tool for efficient resource allocation.

‘Free markets’ are typically not competitive as actors have incentives to reduce the competition for higher profits. A properly managed competitive market is an amazing tool. I think most people who are free market absolutests think they are saying they believe in the benefits of competitive markets. They’ve been deluded into thinking that removing all rules and regulations makes a market competitive. Unfortunately, rules and regulations are usually required to keep markets competitive (and to gain the benefits of markets’ efficient resource allocation).

Thanks for coming to my TED talk!

This is one of the things that gives me the most hope for him as a candidate. He is (imo) a great public example of how to a person of faith in politics. I think setting this example will have a large impact on US politics as a whole. I think there are a ton of Christians that would break with Trump in a heartbeat given the choice between a Talarico and a Christian nationalist (as unfortunate as that scenario is).