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[lostcosmonaut]

      My cousin and I couldn't stop doing or selling drugs. Th police would come over to my cousin's house and arrest us both; and as soon as th police were gone, my cousin and I would break out all of our drugs and start doing or selling them again. It was house arrest. It seemed as if every time our parole officers stopped by my cousin's house

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[violalee]

Is it weird that I didn't think you even had a job but somehow magically created money out of air and bubbles and glitter or some shit? I cannot imagine YOU, th Mza, sitting behind a fucking DESK endlessly pushing papers and binderclips around while you adjust your keyboard which is always in the way of whatever number you're needing to jot down.

independent canine care and behaviour consultant

[lostcosmonaut]

haha ah haven't writ a whole lot about work because it bores me in general to read about other people's work -- not that th work itself is boring but that work tends not to inspire much in th way of things to say

That and you're right, in a way: my jobs for th past eight years haven't been anywhere near a desk. Cross yr fingers, though -- ah been interviewin'

--mza.

[tdaschel]

("the System" relies - heavily - on our Irrationality / and robots will no-soon-day-soon be as irrational as THEY would like ..)

ps/ from the Great Pierogi Race to Naked G_rl Pope, Pittsburgh has something for everyone !

grasshoppers

[lostcosmonaut]

tHEY are only ever thinking of th short game, though

Think about this: th System also relies heavily on consumers consuming. Well what happens when half of people don't have jobs ? What happens when 80% of people don't have jobs or when close to 100% of people don't have jobs ? Who's going to buy th THINGS ? Are th Bill Gates & Steve Jobs of 2040 going to go to a barter system just between th two of them ?

My brain broke trying to think about this, but I don't think THEY have any of this shit worked out. Did THEY predict th Great Depression of 2008 ? THEY can't decide whether climate change is a joke or a death sentence

In other words, it wouldn't surprise me if th robots sneaked up on THEM and said, "HEY it's 2040, freaks, get da fug outta here"

You're in PGH ? Coulda swore you was somewhere SW Virginia or thereabouts

but like ah said, my brain done broke

--mza.

[tdaschel]

you make some excellent points, sure! consider that the Pharaohs of Old may've been mere "middle management" .. that the famous GODZ may've made certain promises to them they had no intention of keeping. and what is David Rockefeller if not a latter-day Pharaoh (inexplicably still alive)? it makes no sense he and his ilk would make jolly dumping all over our planet like so.many high-tech shit apes. it is painfully obvious he has been promised escape saucers / either that, or his descendants will be occupying Africa and South America during the coming Ice Age (200 years from now?).

ps/
(not in Pittsburgh, but i appreciate the "culture" ..)

http://i.imgur.com/1dEef.jpg

ozymandiasian

[lostcosmonaut]

haha middle management, ah dig it

Speaking of Rockefellers/Pittsburgh/steel, ah jest read this excellent book --

http://economixcomix.com/

-- which has a few v. good discussions of John D.'s rise to emperorhood:

CAPTION: "Big firms survive crashes better than small ones. By 1880, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil had bought some competitors, allied with others, and smashed the rest."

ROCKEFELLER SPEECH BALLOON: "A monopoly!"

CAPTION: "Technically, monopoly only applies to sellers; a buyer that has no competition is a monopsony. Standard Oil was monopoly and monopsony."

ROCKEFELLER VICTIMS SPEECH BALLOON: "He gets you coming and going!"

CAPTION: "By the end of the 19th century, the United States had a mixed economy, with small businesses and farms side by side with a sort of socialism, run by big businesses.

ROCKEFELLER DIRECT QUOTE SPEECH BALLOON: "What a blessing it was that the idea of cooperation, with railroads, with telegraph lines, with