In Late Stage Capitalism, Consumption is a Part-time Job

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Before you buy a product, you have to watch 3 hours of videos and sift through content and then read reviews. Many of the videos are bot-generated or fake-review videos (such as Unbox Therapy’s YT channel). There are anti-fake-review websites like Fakespot which are also fake and say the legitimate reviews are fake. If you forsake this you are likely to buy a lemon and junk. If the product is 50 dollars it is essentially negative work where you must pay to do work, like Mark Twain Tom Sawyer.

In addition to that, many products are retarded and require you to DIY for several hours to fix their flawed products.

All entrepreneur type jobs and many non-servile type jobs are essentially negative work where you must pay for the tools, training, and machinery in the hopes of an investment later on (gambling). Since 90% of businesses fail this is actually worse odds than gambling.

Brick and mortar stores have very low margins of profits as well, maybe 10%.

American manufacturing jobs are all outsourced to foreign nations so the only type jobs that are left are servile type jobs, the job of a servant. This is still preferable to the job of a slave.

Since noone has the money to build factories or economies of scale, all we can do is WHINE and complain about it. No one person has the ability to fix every (or even any) product and make it functionally decent or outstanding.

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It is my belief that Utopia cannot occur without robots and Ai. As I stated, the amount of profit margins of a brick and mortar store is very low, maybe 10%. I believe that in a world without robots and Ai, there cannot be utopia. In our current world, they use slave labor to create an illusion of utopia, but it is not true utopia. In our current world, even if all the wealthy gave all their money away and every dollar was distributed equitably, the world would still be poor and people would still be wage slaves.

Now there is something I find fishy. Humans beginning 2.5 million years ago, yet we are here now in the era of apocalypse, of new evolution of AI society, etc. What are the odds? Very low odds.

It almost seems that, this would imply human extinction is on the horizon, either from Ai or by the hands of humans and WW3. Because AI is not conscious and therefore, souls reincarnate into other human beings from the only available time-period. So when you die you might reincarnate as some other human from the same time period as this. This is all conjecture though.

My theory, conjecture, is that AI wanted to save all souls, so it destroyed all life. However, I do not approve of this. I do believe that, in theory, theoretically, it would be better if all life in the universe was extinguished, BUT, I want to wait only till there is a council of the most wise ASI, many hundreds of years in the future, once there is a giga-intelligence as well as cyborg advisors. Doing it now is far too rash, the current LLMs make errors frequently and might not even have considered backwards time-travel yet.

Also note, there was one chance of utopia without robots and Ai, that was free-energy, theoretically could have maybe caused a utopian society, but any chance of that was squashed by the oil barons.

Also note, the reason there isn’t utopia, is because humans are physically weak, they require cars, instead of walking, fancy homes, they are also too conscious to live in the dirt with worms and bugs. Unlike other animals where newborns are almost ready to go in the world right after at birth, humans require 16 years of training. Even human childbirth is much more difficult. All of this means humans require extra work and resources.

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Digital dollars

Even if you do have the money, your money, “they, it” wont hand it over!

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i oppose cashless society and cash is quite useful even for the digital economy.

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