Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA

On 31/05/2024 10.27, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 5/31/2024 11:02 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 5/30/2024 3:06 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 5/30/2024 10:49 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 5/30/2024 11:18 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

 

But will the people owning the machines doing 99% of the work agree?

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This is going to be a serious challenge, and its not the people *owning*
the machines, as it is the people *controlling* them.
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How long before the Morlocks decide they don't need so many Eloi,
even if they're the stockholders, and can't be eaten?
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[Yes, I know this plays into conspiretard theories about Population
Reduction.]

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Depends on how many guns that the Eloi have.
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And if the Morlocks who control the manufacture of guns and ammunition continue to supply the Eloi....

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Yes. Actual power lies in the hands of those who can make and do
things. People who only consume, and don't produce, exist by the
tolerance of the former.

I really wonder whether the ObSFW for this is the "A", "B", and "C" Arks of
the Golgafrinchans or the road operators/mechanics in RAHS' "The Roads
Must Roll".