It’s a real post, but evidence suggests its a joke.

https://old.reddit.com/user/PictureThin5467

Only post by user and no response to any comments. Users of the sub seem to think it’s a joke.

so what will the point of failure

Historically it has been when a significant amount of the public cannot afford to feed themselves or their families. During the Great Depression there was a lot of land to be worked and to grow food, which allowed many to still survive despite the troubling economics of the time. Now, that’s not quite the case anymore, and you’ll have more people struggling to make ends meet. When people say “bread and circuses” most people focus on the “circuses” but the reality is the bread is the more important bit.

and I’m even more interested if you can guess how we get around the dilemma?

Historically, a lot of strife, violence, blood, and vengeance. Most will suffer and die. Dark times ahead.

Pretty sure trade unions don’t require everyone to work at the same shop. I paid union dues when I worked doing screen printing in a shop that was me, another dude, and the owner who did all the design. That was the entire business and we were still part of the local painters trade union.

So he hired Joe Rogan?

If you’re a developer and finally have a job you need to work on pushing what the industry has always needed. Start pushing to start a union.

I know it sucks to take on something that either seems beneath you or will be contributing to preventing you from getting a job in your field but have you considered things like call center work? It absolutely sucks but it’s work and they accept almost anybody. Bonus is a lot of call center jobs are remote.

Another option I am nervous to suggest but has been helpful to me is gig work through something like DataAnnotation or Babel? They are both companies that work in the domain of training existing AIs to be smarter and give better answers. The pay isn’t top tier but its pretty okay for people with a background in programming (I think the programming work makes between $30 and $40 an hour, not great but not awful). I feel gross contributing to killing the jobs I could otherwise have but I try to remind myself that AI is still overrated for what it can actually do and that AI does have some beneficial aspects which are weighed down by a corporate class who only want to use it as a way to cut human workers out of the picture. I can also attest to these actually being real and having gotten paid for the work I did.

dataannotation.tech
babel.audio

I hope this at least helps you get some meager income to stay off the streets my friend. I know they aren’t the best options but sometimes that is the nature of life. If nothing else it gives you a foothold to get better/more valuable certifications.

Edit: also for anyone looking for work in Washington state try Ecology Litter Corps through the Washington Department of Ecology. Pays decent and you help make the state look nice by picking up trash.

https://ecology.wa.gov/waste-toxics/solid-waste-litter/litter/ecology-youth-corps

What’s fucked is that’s actually why none of the Republican politicians will turn on Trump because they are endlessly getting violent threats from their own MAGA voters who they validly see as more dangerous, unhinged, and likely to follow through than leftists.

They already are afraid, just not of us.

Not for long with how Trump is fucking up trade with the rest of world and dollars and bonds aren’t looking to hot.

To prevent you from renting a new apartment, mostly. Go in with an eviction on your record and try to get a place and you’ll mostly just be denied.

“I’m really not here to represent any candidate,” Paterson said.

“I’m just here to villify the one who actually won the fucking primary because fuck democracy, y’all. We own your asses, we call the shots, and like hell are we gonna let you people change that!”

We literally cannot have even one nice thing in this country. You best start believin’ in cyberpunk dystopias… because you’re in one.

Or maybe more people are really that stupid and easily entertained than we would like to admit.

Co-sponsored by Republican state Sen. Jeff Barta, the legislation allows tenants to petition to have eviction records sealed after seven years, if they’ve resolved any outstanding rent or damages and stayed eviction-free during that time.

Seems like small potatoes to me. That can be hard to do if you’re struggling and have been evicted already.

I think you might mean modal instead of median/average. The average keeps going up but it is skewed by the wealth at the top while the mode keeps dropping.

Time and endless propaganda rehabilitated war criminals to the point that Harris trotted out one of them in support of her as somehow a positive thing.

People still ooh and ahh over the photo of a war criminal handing Michelle Obama a piece of candy.

This is America, we only fantasize about fighting for rights over here.

This absolutely unhinged thread proves my point.

What’s wild is I used to work local television news production. I saw how little the reporters and anchors got paid. It’s not like they are a completely out of touch class, almost all of them are facing the same kind of problems. That was nearly 20 years ago now, too. Things ain’t magically got better for a dead industry that keeps consolidating.

Uh, it slipped away like 25 years ago. Keep up, KTLA.

Ah yes because my cancer having ass won’t be physically wrecked trying to do work like that.

Do these assholes even listen to themselves?

The Edge of who gives a fuck?