2/ reality: people, given machine generated wealth so they don't need to work, will engage in mean-girl gangs, memetic warfare to acquire status & wealth from low-status, coordinated shaming attempts to harm the productive, and organized calls to starve rivals into submission.
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4/ me, yesterday, re Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (TLDR: Cory Doctorow's politics are Very Bad, Actually)pic.twitter.com/zh1hDHE1xt
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5/ closely related to Slate Star Codes survive / thrivehttps://twitter.com/wraithburn/status/1490802884832858120 …
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I believe in ONE of those things.
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I read Bank's early(ish) novel "The Crow Road" "We're all socialists, but we also have a guaranteed income from books." WTF
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Okay that’s trippy. I just saw a character reading one of his books in the show I’m watching and looked him up. Now here you’re mentioning him. Guess I better add to pile…
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Now do William Gibson.
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