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on Thursday January 24 2019, @01:34PM
from the Hit-rock-bottom-and-keep-digging-dept dept.
from the Hit-rock-bottom-and-keep-digging-dept dept.
You know how it is, it's a Saturday so you go out into the garden for a quick interface with nature before the next 10 hr Fortnite / Netflix combo binge to find your dog has left numerous piles of digested food all over the place. What do you do? Get online to AirTasker to post a job requesting someone come over to pick up the shit. Yes, seriously, that's what they do these days when help is just a click away. Need a pack of ciggies but are "too unwell" to go get them for yourself? Airtasker! Need a couple of vibrators in a hurry? Yep, someone on there will help you. For a price. Just when we thought with Facebook that humanity had hit rock bottom. How low can we go?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday January 24 2019, @04:05PM (4 children)
I'll come to your house and pick up your pooch's shit, for a flat fee od $150 + travel expenses. Still interested?
Humanity has hit rock bottom because the gig economy is 21st century wage slavery, not because it exists at all. Someone needs a way to unionize all gig economy workers the world over, and it's because that very thing is next to impossible to achieve, and because poverty is on the rise, forcing the needy to accept any rotten deal, that rock bottom has been hit.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @04:20PM (1 child)
yes. never before has anyone picked up shit from the streets, and everybody was perfectly happy that way.
well, except for the constant disease and dying, but whatever. they were real MEN, who had honor and didn't pick up no shit.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Thexalon on Friday January 25 2019, @01:22AM
"Whose that there?"
"Dunno, must be a king."
"Why?"
"He hasn't got shit all over him!"
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NotSanguine on Thursday January 24 2019, @04:33PM (1 child)
You're trying promote a narrative that has no basis in fact.
That there are poor people is absolutely true. And there are way too many of them as well. What's more, crap jobs/the gig economy are definitely depressing incomes.
However, poverty isn't on the rise. In fact, it has been dropping for centuries, with especial progress over the past 30 years. 200 years ago, almost everyone lived in poverty. In 1990, just 37% lived in extreme poverty. As of 2017, just 10% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty.
So no. Poverty is not on the rise. Just the opposite.
Not globally:
https://ourworldindata.org/poverty-at-higher-poverty-lines [ourworldindata.org]
https://worldpoverty.io/ [worldpoverty.io]
And not in the US:
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/09/poverty-rate-drops-third-consecutive-year-2017.html [census.gov]
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @01:09AM
The interesting thing about that USA graph is, you see when poverty rate turns from a steady decline to treading water up/down/up/down/up/down (thus raising some questions about your thesis...)
I looked down at the X axis and lo and behold that was right around 1968.
The thing is I'm actually very curious about is if a Keynesian capitalism/socialism hybrid actually does get around Marx and is actually sustainable. 1968 seems to be the year the ruling class abandoned the socialist parts of the economy (new deal, welfare, etc) and went into full retard neoliberal mode. The problem with neoliberalism is that then capitalism becomes completely governed by Marx again.
(Note: Trotsky and Luxemburg may have shown that capitalism is always doomed to abandon the working class gains the social-democrats made and begin a toboggan ride measured in decades instead of years. Specifically, Luxemburg haunts us when capitalism runs out of room to expand to.)
(Note: capitalism is the most appropriate system for parts of the world right now. It could be that only some countries are ready for socialism in 2019. Hopefully I don't oversimplify. Capitalism will turn a peasant class into a proletarian class, and socialism is incompatible with a peasant class. (For example, a peasant class is uneducated and illiterate, but a proletarian class has some degree of education and nearly universal literacy.) However, if capitalism does not give way to socialism, eventually it experiences decay back to feudalism, and the peasant class emerges again.)