Sounds terrible. I’m sure it’ll happen cuz we live in hell.

This is like adding ESPN to the live TV package.

Thanks, professor!

I mean give capitalism long enough we might be left with just one guy standing. I do mean guy. An immortal white shriveled dude, alone in a utopia of bots serving him.

Nah, they’re not immortal and all tech has problems. I get this is like the wet dream of the tech bros to be self-sufficient masters of robot armies, and I hate to kink shame, but it won’t ever happen.

It’s funny how when something’s going offline it’s easy for people to just switch apps even if the barrier to switching is extremely high (like having to learn a new language high). Makes it seem almost like…maybe people are fine with the shitty politics on the garbage sites and it isn’t really about the switching costs after all.

In what world was that an argument? Lol, good luck to you Mr. “If he dies you’re already long dead” guy.

Here’s an actual argument:

1. He isn’t even a billionaire
2. If society completely collapses I kind of doubt people will care about the armed guard job and instead will just club the rich assholes over the head and steal their resources

Maybe if we keep going with the concentration of wealth we can boil it all down to just one guy and then drown that guy in the bathtub like Republicans wanted to do with the federal government.

Ps: As far as your oligarchy vs plutocracy thing goes, we’re just both.

You might be downvoted but you’re absolutely correct.

I read Ken Klippenstein and he was heralding 2024 as the year of the gerontocracy starting to fail and be left behind and I’m like dude, we just elected a fucking 78 year old Hitler wannabe as president. The gerontocracy only gets worse.

Buy the foreign goods you want now folks.

No

This is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to suing someone for sucking. Which, for whatever reason, was a childhood trope in my family. I love the idea of that being an actual thing. Many companies would be open to lawsuits if you could sue them for sucking.

Who cares, you’re dead.

Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn’t worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that’s what you’re thinking. Definitely not.

I don’t usually like salespeople, but this one I like a lot.

Nah some of the shit we buy sustains us, and some of the killer shit we buy at least provides joy. This guy is just a miserable, wasteful asshole.

What an efficient allocation of capital!

Who cares at that point?

This is one of the biggest wastes of time I could imagine.

I don’t know about the US, but in the UK, rebuilding would be covered by the homeowner’s buildings insurance.

A lot of these places were dropped from their insurance because insurance companies made the risk calculation.

Edit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fires-california-palisades-fire-homeowners-insurance-state-farm-fair-losses/