Re: [AFMUG] intersection of technical and political and wrestling

[Jesse DuPont]

Not if you pay with cash... On 10/8/24 9:15 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Will we have to tip the robots?   From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Darin Steffl Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 10:11 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] intersection of technical and political and wrestling   People will need to advance their job skills because unskilled labor will be automated when possible.   When the tesla Optimus robot comes out and scales up, it will replace lots of unskilled labor.   On Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 4:42 AM Jan-GAMs <j.vank...@grnacres.net> wrote: What I want to know is when are the robots going to pay into the SSI?  I go into the store and most of the cashiers have been replaced with scanners, robots are stocking shelves, mopping floors.  Taxi's are becoming self-driven.  Where are the people going to get a job?  What are the retired going to live on? On 10/7/24 18:02, Ken Hohhof wrote: Liberal and conservative are kind of meaningless terms.  Progressive and Reactionary are probably the more accurate political terms.  Reactionary may sound pejorative, but if you look up the definition, it’s pretty dead on.   In the context of Robert’s post, conservative is indeed the right term, since the wealthy wants to maintain the status quo.  But what you hear all the time these days is take things back to some prior time when things are thought to have been better.  That’s reactionary.  I mean, the red caps don’t say Keep America Great.   From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck Sent: Monday, October 7, 2024 7:31 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] intersection of technical and political and wrestling   Thus the “conserv - ative “ party. Sent from my iPhone   On Oct 7, 2024, at 5:47 PM, Robert <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote:  I read that, except for reducing taxes and benefits to common workers, the extremely wealthy don't want any change in politics, the status quo must be maintained.   So when one party comes into power, those to items are the only ones that you will see any real movement on. On 10/7/24 8:54 AM, ch...@go-mtc.com wrote: You have that exactly right.  There have been ample opportunities for both sides to advance pet dogma.  Especially on the abortion issue.  I am apathetic towards politics as they are all the same, just different colors.    Barbell curve, I love it.  Some could say the bathtub curve.    I recently watched the series on Netflix about Vince McMahon.  I realized I was watching current American Politics.  I didn’t know that Trump even got in the ring with him at one point and smacked him down.    I think Trump has used McMahon as the prototype for his TV/political career.    The dems play the heel pretty well.  But they are never quite popular enough to be the baby face.    From: Mike Hammett Sent: Monday, October 7, 2024 8:14 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] intersection of technical and political   Every time a party has control of the White House, Senate, and House and then DOESN'T do all of the things they say are so important to do, that means that everything they say is just a political football and that no one actually cares.   -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com   -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

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