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UBI has to be funded by taxation on the rich. If you give Mick 2k/mo but tax him 5M/mo i think you're coming out ahead, and you're avoiding all the bureaucracy of deciding who does and doesn't get the 2k... Which would be large, complex and prohibitive.

Private companies, for better or worse, are beholden only to the boss. No shareholder value to worry about.

That's the only reason steam hasn't been turning the thumbscrews on developers for stage 3 enshittification profit seeking.

I mean he specifically said prison labor for the "wellness" farms - like prisons don't have inmates do hard labor on farms (I'm looking at you Louisiana with your fucking slave plantation prisons).

The idea of a place where you have to work the fields and aren't allowed access to the outside world is a reeducation camp. He's saying "you go there voluntarily"... Instead of a standard prison, which Republicans have done everything they can to make as harrowing a place as possible.

Go to reeducation gulag or go rot in a hole isn't much of a choice, even if we smear it with the fecal veneer of "wellness culture"

Agreed.

But the entire point I'm making is there's nothing wrong with the diamonds, the problem is with the method and the people profiting from it.

You were saying the diamonds were not fine by dint of origin. I'm saying let's right the wrong and then use the diamonds.

The fuck you think "using their ill gotten gains for good" means?

I mean yeah: if we went and killed every person who benefits from conflict diamonds and closed all blood diamond mines why wouldn't you be cool with using the resources? Their evil origin has little to do with their practical utility and if the original sin is expiated there's no reason not to?

Like yeah conflict diamonds have basically no purpose because we can make diamonds cheaper and better in labs but in a situation where there are more practical uses (cobalt, LLMs) once we cleanse the land of the sinners why wouldn't we use their ill gotten gains for good?

You'll take my kotlin from my cold dead hands

Nah fuck that complacency.

Go complain about it. Complain that we're failing people. Complain that we don't build enough homes. Complain that our social safety net lets people end up in tents.

Fuck this benign neglect bullshit that has let the homeless rot rather than housing them.

I didn't know Lodge only used American iron - do you have a link to that somewhere? I tried finding it on Google but couldn't. It'd be useful to have handy when talking to the "America doesn't manufacture anything anymore" crowd

Skill issue

"algorithmic domestication"

1. It's Walmart: what item they sell has no connection to China?
2. It's important tariffs actually the board not just China