“If you give ppl UBI, everyone’s just going to be making pots or painting or something!”

Good!! Good! Can’t express how much more I want to fill my home with pots and paintings than with a stovetop that inexplicably connects to the internet.

@minmi Imagine thinking the allocation of resources and labor time we have now is good! In the midst of the AI bubble!
@scott truly wild that we are all basically spending money on things we hate and that’s just “the economy”.
@minmi @scott it’s fully psychotic. we can’t buy things that meet our needs because there’s more “value” in collecting data about us that will be used to sell us more things that don’t meet our needs. and that’s why your oven is spying on you.
@eniatitova @scott does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion this isn’t sustainable?
@minmi @scott of course it’s not but…