A pencil (edit: less than 1 dollar most of the time)
Libb
joined 4 weeks ago
How would he live or what would he do in life? More importantly, what should be done with him to make him useful or at least neutral rather than being a negative on the society?
Are you a tool, or an object yourself? Can I throw you away because you're broken, or because a newer version of yourself has been released, or because I don't like the way you age?
Probably not because, at least in your own eyes, you don't consider yourself a tool or an object. You're not something, right?
Why is that? Because you're a person. You're a human being.
Well, good for you and, also, nice to meet you my dear fellow human being.
The thing is that with or without skill, we all are human beings too. We're persons, we're not tools at the disposal of some 'owner' who is free to break it and throw it away when not needed.
Given that, one realize that the fact of being alive is not about being 'employable' or 'useful'. It never was. Believers would say it's a miracle or a gift, I'm not a believer myself but I kinda understand that idea: it's... so much more than all we can understand.
Sure, each of us may need to be able to get food and shelter, true that, but then your question instantly stops being about 'what should we do with unemployable people' to become the, imho, much more interesting 'why is that civil society (aka, all of us) is allowing a handful of its own members, the billionaires and corporations, to decide they have the right to destroy the way society works for all of us and to render a lot of us unable to earn their living, just so that handful of billionaires and corporations can make more money? And why is that we should not object to their decision?'
Now, since I answered your question, allow me to ask you mine.
Why do you think people should be categorized by their 'usefulness'? And, if we were to accept your premise (which I obviously don't want to), would you happen to consider yourself one of those 'useful' that would still deserve a place in that new AI and robotic-powered society?
edit: typos + my usual poor English
A well deserved +1 for a much more polite reaction than the one I had reading the title.
Are we supposed to shed a tear? The only thing I'm looking for is some alternative to my iPhone, even very basic and very feature-limited, preferably made in the EU, that would let me ditch that last piece of Apple tech I own... while still being able to easily access the banking and security apps I do need.
Have you had your health checked recently? If there is nothing wrong, maybe you're like me: I was getting bald at a relatively young age and then my hair started greying out.
Instead of fighting it, I decided to assume it and make it simpler to live with for me. I shaved myhead and have not looked back since then ;)
Easy: destroying the world out of sheer stupidity and greed.
Writing things down, using the pen and paper I always carry with me. Doing so, I don't try to make literature or to sound smart, I just write things down as they come. Later on I'll read them back, that's quick, and decide if they're worth using or if I strike them out and forget about them.
- It frees the mind (no need to waste brain power to remember stuff)
- It helps brainstorming freely, even by oneself
- It helps remember stuff I would otherwise don't remember
- It helps mixing ideas I may not even consider mixing together
I would not be able to work as efficiently without the simple but so powerful pen and paper.
Like the others: jam.
Même pas chaud.