monkey wrote:

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.

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.

I don’t underestimate people’s ability to keep on buggering on but I don’t think that’s going to be an option.

Can money get any more virtualised?

Most places still accept cash. Not all, but the majority.

Yossarian wrote:

Most places still accept cash. Not all, but the majority.

Cash is a physical token representing virtual money. It's not related to or backed up by anything real.

Am I misunderstanding what you mean by virtual money, money? Do you actually mean money that isn't government sanctioned? If so, what'd that got to do with things?

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

Essentially, why should I bother trying to get that promotion if any extra buying power it gives me can disappear in an instant because some algorithm has decided to do a mass sell-off of Sterling.

I may not have have enough grasp of money matters to say anything more, so I'm going to.

For what it's worth, I try not to use cash because I hate coins jangling about in my pocket.

equinox_code wrote:

There is so much that is structurally unjust or unfair about this life and nobody ever seems to acknowledge it.

I’d argue that the current shit-show that is British and American (and others) politics is a culmination of years of people acknowledging how shit life is. They may not be an appropriate response, but that’s another matter.

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.

This is going to sound harsh, but through no fault of your own? These things are of some concern to me, but not that much. What’s the difference?

AJ wrote:

Diluted Dante wrote:

The solution.

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.

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:

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.

I hope it fails and you end up bankrupt and you end up begging for coin to fund your Costa habit

AND THEN CANT FUCKING BUY ONE COS OF THE FUTURE YOU YES YOU WANTED

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.

You can't say much from the little outline I gave, it's obviously more complicated than a couple of lines is going to show. I mean, I never worked out a lot of details because I didn't give enough of a shit to press on with it, and there's every chance it wouldn't have worked, but the stuff the basic plan relied on for traction (this was around the turn of the century) has since lined up.

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

Lots of burnt out petrol stations

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

Glasgow's great, Tempy, g.man and gav (amongst others) are there for a start, which makes it one of my favourite cities.

It's all about the company you keep.

This is a troll, Glasgow is well known as one of the most friendly and approachable cities in the world. I'm happy to post the metrics

Bob wrote:

I went with my best mate so no dice

Does your mate know Glasgow?

GooberTheHat wrote:

Bob wrote:

I went with my best mate so no dice

Does your mate know Glasgow?

Yeah his mum owned an appartment there.

It’s jsut my experience though yours may differ and that’s ok