greenskye

This is basically all modern elections. Very few flip sides, it's mostly about which side actually gets enough people to get out to vote.

Which is why I want mandatory voting. The country would be a lot better represented if everyone was forced to cast a ballot. Sure tons of people would vote without any real care, but they'd still tend to vote roughly for anyone they knew they liked. The college kid that always talks politics online but can't be bothered to vote will now actually cast a ballot and be heard.

But this would almost definitely finish off the current Republican party so it's doubtful it'll ever happen.

To be fair there are also a lot of 'green' company scams out there too. Grifters are everywhere

Pretty sure since it's a layoff they'll argue it wasn't specifically targeted as a form of discrimination. America is full of things that feel like they should be illegal, but aren't.

Like how my state has absolutely zero laws enforcing access to bathroom or food breaks at work. Totally baffling.

My parents are doing a write in instead of voting for Trump again, so I consider that a win

Rather than discouraging people not to invest, I think the larger concern is the further entrenchment of a three class system.

You'll have your capitalists, those that own the assets and robots and land. Then you'll have some amount of humanity lucky enough to get one of the jobs not automated. Finally you'll have those existing purely on UBI.

The economy will shift towards catering almost exclusively to the first two groups and anyone on UBI will be seen as a useless parasite. There won't be any efforts to price goods and services for this group beyond the bare minimum because they have very little buying power and zero earning power.

I think we've seen time and time again that the rich are more than happy owning a small pie rather than putting in the work to build something bigger, even if that would result in larger profits long term. It's going to be easier to just shrink the economy to those that still have jobs than it will be to make everyone have more equitable buying power.

UBI will probably happen and probably get paid, because it will help prevent revolts and unrest, but that is a cost center to the rich. You minimize cost centers as much as possible. It's a subscription they pay to the masses to reduce risk and that's it.

UBI will probably come, but much like AI, we're probably not going to be happy with what and how it's used. It won't be to enable an artist to pursue their passion, it'll be just enough to keep you quiet and docile, no more.

McDonald's has a pretty shitty loyalty program anyway. They have a very limited selection of stuff you can even spend the points on and you can't both use points and a daily deal at the same time.

I mean exactly? Why are Democrats courting the people flirting with fascists instead of at least the broad, varied base of their own group. The could cater to the conservative Democrats and still come out ahead.

Ok so 3% of the 42% of independent voters are truly undecided. Why spend the effort on them, vs actually motivating the roughly 50% of your base + independents who are actually Democrats that just don't show up.

It feels like by doggedly pursuing this tiny fraction of 3% undecided voters, they disillusion a much higher percentage of their own already locked in supporters from actually showing up. If they spent their efforts on targeting supporters that just don't vote, could they get 5% more votes? 10? 15?

Time and time again it feels that the side that wins isn't the one that flipped a vote, but rather the side that was more excited and engaged. Someone the Republicans seem to have figured out and work heavily towards.

Which is why I don't understand why the Democrats seem to so heavily target these mythical independents. Feels like the Republicans have completely stopped catering to anyone other than their base, meanwhile Democrats seem to ignore their base or compromise their own values for voters that don't even exist. To me it's the strongest argument for the whole theory of controlled opposition, even if I don't really believe in that.

I still can't fathom how the fuck anyone is an independent anymore. Too lazy to vote, yes. Have no idea who your party's candidate is? Sure. Don't know which party to vote for? No way in hell.

Which is ultimately the biggest reason companies suck so much worse now than they used to. Over a long enough time frame profit isn't the worst way to steer an organization. Negative actions have repercussions and companies used to avoid those.

But investors shortened the time frame so that everything and anyone is disposable. We have a handful of rich people hollowing out pretty much all companies in America and stripping them of value as fast as possible. We're destroying our economic base in a fire sale for like 9 people.

Basically this. Even if they wanted to continue the tour, Gass just massively increased the chance of another mass shooting by some nut job out to get revenge. If that had really happened, it would've completely sunk everyone involved and people would be claiming that they were the ones that invited the catastrophe.