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HOVER THATCHER: Gor blimey me legs!!
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.
So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.
ČSSR SHATTERED BY REACTIONARIES
AND STILL NO ARRESTS?
HOW COME, MISTER CORBYN?
How country get belligarent
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Russia. I mean it basically has Russia all over it. It's an ex-Russian spy, and, well, look they're coming to get us.
incontrovertible.
(actually though, you know what, medicine here is like 50 cents once you're allowed to have some, and that's one nice thing. maybe the only nice thing)
drwhat posted:off/on topic depending on how you look at it, i thought this thread was recent and real because the grocery store down the street was weirdly out of a lot of things last week while i had the worst toothache of my life (and the dentists here are legally unable to prescribe painkillers so if you want real painkilling you have to find a clinic, argue with the receptionist for a while about the fact that yes they can prescribe painkillers for dental pain, and sit in the bread line at the clinic for four hours, speaking of bread lines. this country is amazing. at least it was
freea bit less than $100 US. i am leaving this year, this is my promise to myself)
(actually though, you know what, medicine here is like 50 cents once you're allowed to have some, and that's one nice thing. maybe the only nice thing)
socialized medicine? no thanks!
littlegreenpills posted:socialized medicine? no thanks!
it's two-tier here. (plus usage fees.) socialized medicine works better in canada imx.
drwhat posted:socialized medicine works better in canada imx.
that's pretty depressing because uh, ain't too hot out here rn
while I was in Winnipeg I talked to a bunch of locals about the gutting of their health care system that's happening under their new provincial govt, it wasn't fantastic before but it is truly amazing how much they've managed to destroy so quickly. I've been used to the slow subtle strangling back in alberta, guess they had some catching up to do
now if you're black and you were actually born on the british mainland, don't worry, you can just report to a home office deportation centre once a week for a few months while they procrastinate looking for your birth certificate, after which they'll not apologize. and when you next need to go to the hospital or register to vote you'll get to do it all over again
this has effectively stripped citizenship off of all black people. i really never thought i'd see this in my lifetime
drwhat posted:it's a really terrible place. i'm in the airport waiting to board to go back. i visited canada and it was nice. dumb, but nice. i want to leave early but i can't break my lease because the agency wanted 2.5 months of rent in deposit (and apparently this is normal) and that's enough for a car in most countries so haha. anyway, god save the queen, pip pip
i havent lived there for almost 10 years now and i was floored to find that deposits are no longer 1 month's rent in general. fuckkk