Yeah, well. You don’t get far without sacrifice, right? To get one thing, you’ve got to give up another. Do I really need a cushy mattress? Do I really need my laptop? do I really need A/C?
No, I just think you should go to China.
But you are right. I have no right to force people to do or not do anything, no human has that right, which is something China seems to have forgotten.
I think you should go to SPAAAAACE!!!
(see what I did there?)
Actually no, China did not go too far with that sacrifice, only after ditching their sorry planned economy is that then China did go far. How much further it will go by continuing to limit the freedom of their workers is the question now.
Then we’ll just have to beat it into them.
No, we should use the combustible lemons.
You still here? I thought we told you to go to China.
And who are you to command me to go anywhere?
And who are you to tell the Chinese people to start a civil war? At least if you go to China you are unlikely to be killed.
Why lemons? Why not combustible rice?
Then we must simply eliminate by any means necessary any and all possible competition for jobs that do require large numbers of low skilled workers to accomplish repetitive tasks. Before that, though, we must eliminate automation in order to make those jobs available in the good old USA.
I have no recommendations as to how we will accomplish either of those solutions.
I’m the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood…
humanafterall – the last 2 times China had civil wars, the casualty rates rivaled those of World War 1.
Your suggestion is inexpressably vile.
Go home & re-think your life.
Hey, Moderator! I’m calling for a thread deletion, because this was not as well received as I’d hoped it would be, I also need you to delete my Pit thread, because it’s just not working out either. I probably need to go take a few college classes in diplomacy and political science before I write something else stupid.
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Oh I can be plenty compassionate, but I have problems with controlling my impulses and sometimes talk without thinking about it. It’s just easier to say or do what’s on your mind than it is to think about it. I don’t really want the death of millions, but sometimes it’s all about having the will to do what is necessary, even if it seems kind of wrong.
If we were smart, we’d be hiring people to keep an eye on those damn robots to make sure they don’t break the three laws.
You used the wrong number for US wages - $50,000 is household income, not average per-person yearly wage. Median personal is half that. Unless you were implying that $4,000 is the average total household income in China.
They only delete the threads of spammers, not those of people who lose an argument.
Well, I don’t think anybody is “doing” anything here — and the death of millions more than seems wrong, it is wrong! Compassion needs some discipline to it — you have to remember to practice it, even when it’s tempting not to, and of course that does mean stopping and thinking sometimes. Anyway, good luck. 