Why not?
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Well, we certainly can't right now, FROM our homes. Maybe one day robots can do it all from us, like in The Naked Sun...
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @mcjulie and
But for now, some things need to be done outdoors, in proximity to others; some tasks require two people working together, etc.
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And some of the very goods we value INHERENTLY involve breaking social isolation rules: cinemas, theatres, restaurants
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @mcjulie and
These things exist because people want them, not because a committee of Martians said: "Here's how we'll make humans spend their time"
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @mcjulie and
More generally, our economy is hugely complicated, and wouldn't work if it wasn't. An arbitrary change will tend to make it work less well
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @mcjulie and
So an arbitrary change like killing of a lot of people and having 60% of the population get sick at basically the same time would have what effect?
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That change by itself would have a large, detrimental, but mercifully temporary effect.
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So whenever you want it to, the economy reacts predictable and bounded to change, and when you don't want it to, it's unpredictable and unbounded. That makes zero sense.
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Replying to @RayTski @HenryTarquin and
He literally actually thinks that people dropping dead like flies all around you is something that most people can just shrug off, but Starbucks being closed for six months will have massive, unpredictable effects that will echo into the future because that's a REAL IMPACT
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It's an absurd analysis of human nature that's just people who are huge deluded pieces of shit projecting their beliefs onto everyone else in the world
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