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byrsilvergun ( 571051 ) writes:
This race to the bottom is going to result in 25 to 30% unemployment. Once you get to those numbers it's only a matter of time before wars start. The threat of nuclear annihilation can only do so much. Sooner or later a religious nut job will convince people that God will protect them.
Before that the police will collapse and you're going to have bandits. There are 400k cops in America. When the economy collapses you can bet there won't be money to keep 400k cops. Even if there was they can't protect you from 40 or 50 million people with nothing to lose.
Remember you have to kill every single one of them but they only have to kill you once.
That would be a good time to get over all the culture war bullshit we are obsessed with and figure out a solution to this problem.
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byshanen ( 462549 ) writes:
This race to the bottom is going to result in 25 to 30% unemployment. Once you get to those numbers it's only a matter of time before wars start. The threat of nuclear annihilation can only do so much. Sooner or later a religious nut job will convince people that God will protect them.
Before that the police will collapse and you're going to have bandits. There are 400k cops in America. When the economy collapses you can bet there won't be money to keep 400k cops. Even if there was they can't protect you from 40 or 50 million people with nothing to lose.
Remember you have to kill every single one of them but they only have to kill you once.
That would be a good time to get over all the culture war bullshit we are obsessed with and figure out a solution to this problem.
So now I feel obliged to quote you against the censor trolls, though I don't even see what part of your comment ticked off the sock puppets. In particular, I don't see any basis for your magic estimate of 25-30% unemployment. Rather I think the super-rich super-greedy sociopaths calling the shots can't be satiated with all the income from 25-30% of the population. I don't even think they are concerned about relative wealth or how much of their money has become completely imaginary. But I think it's easier t
byjvkjvk ( 102057 ) writes:
You are indeed the troll here, not rsilvergun. You have a mental problem, please get help.
byrsilvergun ( 571051 ) writes:
Is based on the number of customer service reps and the number of warehouse workers and the number of professional drivers.
Those are the current major targets for automation either directly using robotics or via llms and machine learning systems.
Taken as a whole it's a little more than a quarter of the working population.
There are plenty of other people who are currently facing automation like programmers and analysts and I don't want to minimize them because they tend to be higher income and ar
byshanen ( 462549 ) writes:
Thanks for clarifying and I think I agree with most of the other stuff you wrote, though seems a bit of a waste to put so much effort into a long reply on an already effectively expired Slashdot discussion. Most of my concurrence should be apparent within my first paragraph below your quoted post. But should I congratulate you on having so many enemies that one had to stop by with a fresh brain fart? As if having the right sorts of enemies matters?
Then again, I mostly write on Slashdot to clarify my own thi
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bybackslashdot ( 95548 ) writes:
Long before unemployment gets to 30% .. pariah groups will be identified and blamed. It depends on who is in power at the time of the unemployment increase what the pariah group will be. If it's democrats, the pariah group will be the "wealthy" .. if it's republicans .. the pariah group will be minorities. It all depends on whether the narrative is sold eloquently, with cherry-picked data and incidents.
Note .. the actual cause of the unemployment rate won't matter. It will only serve as a case to implement
byspitzak ( 4019 ) writes:
ICE actually has a ways to go. Some historical US deportations (and remember the population was smaller then):
1930s (Great Depression): A period of mass "repatriations" saw an estimated 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—including many U.S. citizens—rounded up and deported or pressured to leave voluntarily. These were often informal raids and not all were official deportations.
1954: Operation Wetback resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of individuals, though historians estimate
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