in my 20's i loved to do this skit where the empty brained boss gleefully tells his employees "this little box will replace all of you!" only for his scheme to hilariously backfire and damn if this ain't the world we're living in now...

used to be just the doctors who had to deal with the internet-smart. now it's all of us.

strauss & howe predicted millennials to be remembered for their competence, but not like this man. not like this.

#s0up

i know, atlas shrugged is about architects and industrialists going on general strike because of unions and socialist governments trying to regulate their bs,

but if ayn rand, traumatized by what russian commies did to her family, seeing the power of general strikes and deciding to turn the table, can abstract from this the plot device of people sidelined by society refusing to give their services / withdrawing their love to get their respect back, then so can i.

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except here, and that was what i was getting at, love, attention, respect and subsequently income is withdrawn by society at large from experts of all wakes of life, and instead is funnelled into the output of a two-(tera)bit token oracle.

if only it were any good.

but yep we have been temporarily general-striked and thus the roles have been reversed.

this is a highly unusual situation. how to get societies love back?

#s0up