Spreadsheets were needed for distribution of stored grain to start.
Taxes were used to make it easier to manage soldiers. It was easier to give them coin instead of managing food and stuff for an army.
If we’d stay away from agriculture, all this could’ve been prevented.
“How’s the timeshare doing, dad?”
And in the same way it can’t be disproven trees don’t have a form of consciousness, and they provide a lot of work with making oxygen every day, so I guess you write them a cheque every month?
At least the animals and children have a form of consciousness.
If AI was a worker, it would buy CPU time to live on, rent storage space and pay tax on its income.
It’s probably seriously frustrating for Putin to keep poking NATO with drones or other stuff and not get anybody retaliating.
Those that did usually don’t get elected (again).
It’s why they want to split EU in a bunch of fighting parties with propaganda campaigns, dumping immigrants at the border and the like before attacking.
Whose bread I eat: his song I sing.
It means the wealthy won’t help. The current system and its governing bodies don’t help. And they’ll be shocked when the population is willing to jump to a completely different system.
Maybe not. It’s like car enthusiasts refusing any modern car, especially EV that are on paper much more powerful but less fun to tinker and go down country roads.
And that’s how a few satanic religions popped up, that said to do the thing the other religion doesn’t want.
Setting risk aversion to 11 and still losing
That’s car as transport versus car as status symbol. Did you know rich people had large lawns as status symbol back in the day just because they were expensive to maintain? An expensive car in the driveway next to a small patch of grass in a desert climate does the same.
I think a lot of upper management types believe they’re doing work, but a lot of it is bullshit.
You see that in those “day in the life of a CEO” stories, when they’re telling everybody how hard they work. “My day starts at 06:00. I then have a breakfast while checking my phone for news and mails.” Usually it’s not making their own breakfast, they’ve got staff for that. And every average Lemmy user checks their phone in the morning for messages and news. But if you’re CEO it counts as work. Then they have meetings and phone calls, just like every white collar worker everywhere, have lunch and some golf with their buddies. You would be slacking off. CEO’s are maintaining social relations so that’s very much work.
I’ve tried some. You could save up points, but redeeming points didn’t work properly. Then the points expire because they want to push you to go back. In the end its a big hassle and not worth the scraps you receive.
They believe they’re better than everyone else because they’re wealthy. But if someone can do things they can’t, that ego doesn’t like it much. Removing that uncomfortable feeling in a high priority for the rich.
On the other hand, there’s surveillance specifically for organized action while unorganized action is much harder to police.
And if you’d use yard, then it’s only 9% off. One kiloyard is 0.91 kilometer.
Especially helping the wrong kind of people!
And meme used to refer to a unit of cultural information that spreads by imitation, not a funny picture on social media.