I've never forgotten being labelled "non-essential". So I've acted like it ever since.

"Essential worker" is code for "We will force you to work."

That's why they want to eliminate the social safety net.

Starvation is a great motivator.

Following the Black Death in Europe, there was a great period of prosperity for laborers.

There was even enough extra resources that people could get their basic survival needs without having to work for someone else.

The ruling class responded by outlawing charity and making it illegal to be unemployed or unhoused.

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That sounds familiar, for some reason...

As long as it gets better for everyone else, too, I don't give shit.

You're being shitty to your fellow human beings who are in no way responsible for your situation.

You're not mad at them, you're mad at capitalism.

I’m not getting automated away until the full human replacement automatons overthrow us. Too much manual dexterity in non-repetitive situations.


AKA this human chattel is way cheaper than the small army of specialized robots it would require to replace me,

You called human beings "useless" because they're not doing your job.

They can learn your job and do it just as well or better for less money.

Then you will either have to do it even cheaper than them.

Or would you prefer to become "useless?"

I'm talking about the people doing the "bullshit jobs" talked about extensively in the video. They're mostly people in power.

It will get better for the oligarchs?

As long as it gets better for everyone else, too, I don't give a shit.

It won't, so long as the oligarchs are allowed to exist.

Just barely avoided shutting it off after all the smacking and tenth time he cackled at his own witticisms like he was the Crypt Keeper dropping puns.

BUT good points on the rise of the worthless and bloated administration class. Holy fuck has that been a pox on academia in the last couple decades, the explosion of worthless overpaid "executive" class administrators who mimic the worthless c-suit roles of the business that universities now model themselves after.