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Hope we're all noticing the tongue-out lust of employers to replace all workers

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For those of you wondering who the fuck this is or why it matters here is the public version of things at the time:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/friendster-fires-dev...

Damn, that's closer to a slasher movie than slashdotting !

The workers too -it seems they're only in it for the money.

I would love to work on things out of passion, but passion doesn't shelter me from the elements nor provide a steady source of calories.

You do realize that status quo is caused by social engineering and worth fighting against?

As I said, I would love to work on things out of passion.

Has anyone read Vonnegut's "Player Piano?"

I feel as if this book highlights this topic really well

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)

Look. If I would be employing people, I would too be working on ways how to get rid of employees and completely automate my business.

I understand the desire. We all want a machine that makes us money while we sleep.

But if no one has employees, no one can buy stuff.

(Looks like Ford raising wages so his employees can buy cars is false: https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/henry-ford-and-the-5-a-day-wa... .)

I feel a dystopian future. Never underestimate what our fellow humans can do.

In feudal times, society was divided into three parts: bellatores, those who fought; oratores, those who prayed; and laboratores, those who worked. According to this model of the world, even if AI took over the fighting and the working, at least humans could still occupy themselves with praying.

I'm pretty sure there is a timeline where humans are atheists but the robots are religious.

Religious automation has prior art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_flag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel#Electric_dharma_w...

When the robots are doing all the praying too, how will we occupy the humans? Yoga and woodworking? Social media?

(the latter including faffing about on HN)

It's going to be so competitive.

The Onion's been covering the competitive circuit since 1996, when trash talk was all the rage in prayer playoffs:

> LHASA, TIBET—Employing the brash style that first brought him to prominence, Sri Dhananjai Bikram won the fifth annual International Yogi Competition yesterday with a world-record point total of 873.6.

“I am the serenest!” Bikram shouted to the estimated crowd of 20,000 yoga fans, vigorously pumping his fists. “No one is serener than Sri Dhananjai Bikram—I am the greatest monk of all time!”

Sri Dhananjai Bikram walked away with the World Yoga Championship after averaging 1.89 breaths per minute for two straight hours. "I'm blissful! You blissful?! I'm blissful!" he screamed repeatedly to the other yogis.

You just have to find your niche... I am bullish on the Religion of the prophet of Linux in the Desktop.

This sounds Manichaean actually.

If it were Manichaean, is there any way to make sure one would be praying to the correct side of the duality? (I'm thinking of Dijkstra, who went to a lot of effort to rediscover, with OR & EQV, the mirror image of what EE's and russian mathematicians had already figured out, with AND & XOR)

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