monkey wrote:Plus increased automation through AI and robotics, displacement and destruction of jobs through the internet, increased virtualisation of money, collapse of the Western political system. This is all happening now and it’s speeding up.Yossarian wrote:AJ wrote:monkey wrote:Yeah I genuinely think it’s going to be hell on Earth or utopia in 30-40 years. The current system can’t chug along much longer.
I think you'll be surprised how long people can keep it wobbling along. I'd probably give it at least a century more. It'll be slowly getting worse the whole time, of course.
Nah, climate catastrophe will hit in far less time than that.
I don’t underestimate people’s ability to keep on buggering on but I don’t think that’s going to be an option.
Yossarian wrote:Most places still accept cash. Not all, but the majority.
"AJ wrote:
Can money get any more virtualised?
Dark Soldier wrote:If a place doesn't accept cash they can get fucked. I still prefer carrying cash and having something in my hand than a strip of plastic or a Swiss army cuntphone
equinox_code wrote:There is so much that is structurally unjust or unfair about this life and nobody ever seems to acknowledge it.
equinox_code wrote:What’s actually going to happen to people like us when we’re old? Through no fault of our own we’ll have no savings, no pension, no home, no capital, no cheap rental contract etc etc.
AJ wrote:Use the flowering social media scene and swelling discontent to take over the country, continent or world with a manifesto which is actually a thinly disguised belief system based on the betterment of everyone and treating people better on the whole. Or something to that extent. Like I said, probably too late now.Diluted Dante wrote:The solution.
Yossarian wrote:Dark Soldier wrote:If a place doesn't accept cash they can get fucked. I still prefer carrying cash and having something in my hand than a strip of plastic or a Swiss army cuntphone
If I were opening a retail business today, I wouldn’t take cash.
Andy wrote:No offence, AJ, but I’ve heard better considered solutions at 3am from someone whose been taking cannabis and magic mushrooms all night.
Yossarian wrote:I do feel bad for beggars, TBF.
Bob wrote:Yeah it made me glad not to be from there it’s almost post apocalyptic compared to the Isle of Man.
I did enjoy Edinburgh though
Bob wrote:Yeah it made me glad not to be from there it’s almost post apocalyptic compared to the Isle of Man.
I did enjoy Edinburgh though
Bob wrote:I went with my best mate so no dice
Yeah his mum owned an appartment there.GooberTheHat wrote:Bob wrote:I went with my best mate so no dice
Does your mate know Glasgow?
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