It would make much more sense if our MIC developed these…

…huh. I find the missile-to-bust ratio to be implausible.

The freedom to be an asshole, specifically.

If this is Yahweh’s planning, then they are in dire need of a pink slip. We should try hiring on Cthulu or Ahura Mazda instead.

It is just that being stealthy isn’t required in the first place. He could just go to work, and the infection will spread. Remember, MAGA doesn’t wear face diapers. Or believe in germ theory. Probably doesn’t endorse handwashing, neither.

I know your story is a lark, because of “He wanted to stay home, but he dragged himself to the office when nobody was around”

In America, you work yourself to the bone publicly and without consideration of illness, because line must go up. American work ethic is dumb and destructive like that.

I am waiting for an official SteamOS Desktop release. If I am switching to Linux, I would prefer a gaming-focused PC distro that has the support of an 800lb gorilla.

If I have to migrate early, say, at the start of a 2nd American Civil War, I will probably use CachyOS. I don’t expect Microsoft to be neutral or to work for the good guys.

I have a feeling that this is different from Beeg’s concern about client assets, but more about employee influence over the company? The idea of an equity limit might be a good addition to the Universal Ranked Income concept that I have cobbled together. Thank you. :)

In any case, my notes has two things about my own take:

1: Employees can vote for whether someone can obtain and retain their leadership position within their chapter and for higher rungs of the organization. Also, the pay grade of those leaders. Employees who are fired or retired from the company will receive 1:1 retirement pay over time, equal to the days and pay grade that they worked at the company, and can vote on any position of the company or those it has merged with. This essentially means that legacy employees can determine the leadership of the company, and cannot be made to ‘go away’ in a political sense.

2: Stocks when sold, have two components. The first is that they pay an amount over a fixed time, that is more than what they were paid for. It cannot be be sold nor traded, until it has been exhausted of this payback value. When exhausted of value, the share can now be traded to another individual for money, or returned to the company for the value it was bought at. The company cannot refuse the return, nor offer an increased price. A share returned to the company can be reissued, which allows it to start paying the fixed value again. Secondly, people who hold a share can vote for company leadership*. People within leadership positions at the company cannot own stocks from their own organization.

By requiring stocks to be held for a certain time before they can be traded, it makes it harder for stockholders to hoard and dispose of stocks when convenient. The gradual payout is a reward to people who buy stocks from the company. Presumably, the inability of stocks to have guaranteed value when they become tradeable will promote their return to the company.

*It is assumed that we are operating within an economic system, where there are absolute wealth and asset caps. There is only so many shares a person can possess, and holding shares can prevent someone from owning a yacht or bigger house - they have to lose the shares to make room within the cap for things they enjoy. This helps limit the influence of individual stock holders.

Probably as long as this game, assuming that commiting seppeku is an option.

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In that case, what would you believe to be an appropriate solution for your industry? I would like your viewpoint, it might refine my concept a bit further*.

*My approach is assuming a scenario that can be broadly be described as ‘What if FDR failed to save capitalism?’, or a total breakdown of the economic reality we know. That is the sort of thing that the Framers of America did when they made the Constitution. They formalized rules on preventing absolute political power, so I am looking for something similar regarding economic gaps.

I don’t think the purported numbers themselves are that important, the key bit is that AI is an advancing technology over this century. If we don’t rework our society to account for an oncoming future, people will get run over.

If there is an overhaul of my nation’s Constitution, I would like economics to be addressed. One such thing would be a mechanical ruleset that adjusts the amount of wealth and assets a company can hold, according to employee headcount. If they downsize the amount of working humans, their limit goes down. They can opt to join a lotto program, that grants UBI to people whose occupation is displaced by AI, and each income that is lotto’ed by the company adds to their Capital Asset Limit.

“The Book”, is a book that uses illustrations to explain how to recreate civilization. Dunno if it is good. That said, you can also try “How Things Work”, which explains the workings of many inventions, with many wooly mammoths interspersed throughout.

My money is on Mr. Beast running a game show out of RFK’s wellness camps. “Only one of these foul minorities will be allowed to be allowed to live, and will fight each other to the death to earn their life!”

He will live up to his name.

He died before Epstein Island was a thing, presumably.

Rule #868: As an Evil CEO, I will make a point of holding at least three rehearsals to prevent having egg on my face.

The US is a prison nation.

If we have a civil war, that can change. I can’t think of better recruits for soldiery and domestic, than those who have been wronged by the opposing force. It is a silver lining to the deterioration of the USA, if this evil can be dispelled for good.

The kings of yore had to use flushless toilets, the commoner of today now has heated bidets. The wealthy don’t understand that by allowing commoners the ability to think, invent, create, and implement, that the results will trickle up and benefit the wealthy.

Wealth is meant to flow throughout society, not get locked up in the reservoirs of the wealthy. Their greed creates a drought that harms everybody, themselves included.

I wouldn’t be surprised if fiction becomes reality…

Organizing is the biggest issue, IMO. I don’t have much experience with humanity in person. I was raised in a isolated rural territory, and don’t have enough money to explore third spaces for likeminded folks about the situation. Figuring out HOW to network is a huge issue if you aren’t connected enough to society.

What churches align with justice? Which coffee shops embrace freedom? Among the militias, whom among them are antifa?

While I am practicing a firearm with the expectation of someday serving as a ReUnion soldier against the NeoConfederates, I don’t know how to bridge the gap between being an lone individual and part of a Rainbow Panther militia.

Getting funding from South Korea might be an option. They probably want the Trump Regime to go away, so that they can carry on business without a toddler doing stupid shit.

If a civil war happens, I suspect the Blue States would get a great deal of foreign support. “Fuck that guy”, would be a big part of that. The other part being “I want a reliable business partner.” Kinda like how the Confederates were boned internationally when it came to trade. Plus, it would be an easy way to earn favors with whatever institution that displaces Trumpkins.

It can be one of three scenarios IMO:

A: Elon is being particularly dumb and actually produced and distributed drugs with his logo.

B: The Trump Regime created and planted these drugs to manufacture a reason to prosecute Elon.

C: Some drug distributor is a huge fan of SpaceX, or wants to deflect investigation away from their other operations.

…the world being the way it is, all three seems pretty damn plausible to me. 😕