Late Capitalism

[Amor de Cosmos]

I guess I meant that boredom isn't necessarily implied because everyone has a universal income is it? The things that people like to do but have trouble making a living out of them: make up stories, paint, dance, invent, run, swim, play and so on become more possible don't they?

[ooh aah]

I think that's very much dependent on how much UBI is. Unemployed people have plenty of free time, but their benefits payments are usually far too low to allow for any of that.

Personally I don't agree with UBI as it currently seems to be proposed. It seems to me the better option is job sharing, where 2 people work 20 hrs a week and UBI tops up their income so they get the same money as a 40hr a week job. At least then people are actually doing something.

[sw2borshch]

Sounds like the Judge Dredd world of poverty and boredom.

[Patrick Thistle]

I like the Expanse series as it feels like a believable futureworld setting. (The stories themselves are hit and miss. The first 2 books are great.)

[Hot Pepsi]

It gets even more interesting after the first two books. Whichever one where they find the ring. I think that’s the third one.

[Hot Pepsi]

I think that's very much dependent on how much UBI is. Unemployed people have plenty of free time, but their benefits payments are usually far too low to allow for any of that.

Yeah, I think this is how they (James SA Corey is the pen name of two people) imagine it. A lot of people on “basic” have side hustles.

[Patrick Thistle]

It gets even more interesting after the first two books. Whichever one where they find the ring. I think that’s the third one.

I found that one got quite tedious with all the coups and counter-soups on the big ship and stuff. I've read the fourth one and will probably carry on but the third one almost killed it for me.

[Hot Pepsi]

I listened to them all on Audible. Maybe that makes it better. The only one that wasn’t great was the one where they first establish the new colony. I think that’s number 4. The performance on that one isn’t great. But the others are well done.

[hobbes]

I listened to them all on Audible. Maybe that makes it better. The only one that wasn’t great was the one where they first establish the new colony. I think that’s number 4. The performance on that one isn’t great. But the others are well done.

They re-recorded that one with the same guy who narrated all the others. It's much better now.
Wen I first listened to it with the other narrator I had to up the speed to 1.25x to minimise the weird mid-sentence pauses he kept putting in.
If you re-download it you should get the new version.

Please note: The original recording has now been replaced with a new performance by Jefferson Mays. If you own this audiobook, simply re-download it from your library to access the new recording.

From the Audible site

[Hot Pepsi]

Thanks for that info!!

[Nefertiti2]

Back on topic

[URL]https://twitter.com/chakrabortty/status/1160905322866925572?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

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[Hot Pepsi]

Back on topic

[URL]https://twitter.com/chakrabortty/status/1160905322866925572?s=21[/URL]

This is one of those things where somebody needs to sue. I understand the family doesn't want to profit from this tragedy and all that, but often the only incentive big companies have to behave ethically is avoiding massive lawsuits. They can give the money to charity. This is why it's good that The Rainmaker is still on cable all the time.

[Snake Plissken]

I suppose this is as good a thread as any. A takedown of WeWork.


https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/dadbodextreme/status/1193617005275860992?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/dtraynier/status/1193946002144813056?s=21[/URL]

[Lang Spoon]

We're going to need a whole lot of esso garage roofs and rope.

[Ginger Yellow]

Less late capitalism, more late feudalism.

[Nefertiti2]

We're going to need a whole lot of esso garage roofs and rope.

esso garages?

[ursus arctos]

Where Mussolinini's body was strung up in Piazzale Loreto, though I thought it was Standard Oil

[Hot Pepsi]

In the only place I lived in where I couldn’t control the heat, the problem was always that it was way too hot and dry.

[Ginger Yellow]

[URL]https://twitter.com/dsquareddigest/status/1195249773890211840[/URL]