yep. successive governments of all major political parties in some form have tinkered with the system for short-term gain and tied everything in knots.

they’ve bent over for business and allowed them to pay wages that are not enough for people to live off. the driver/justification is the race to the bottom, which is unavoidable in globalist capitalism. the government then tops up the wages in benefits. however, this does not explain continued complicity in allowing tax avoidance, which certainly compounds the problem.

now many of those companies have used this ‘crisis’ to dump staff en-masse. a lot of people good or bad, will not be asked back by their employers. the government is picking-up the tab. what can they do?

this is the simplify answer. with saving the overheads of complication it would should mostly pay for itself medium-term.

the whole operation pisses money left, right and centre. at this point, a little of it may as well come back to us. this is the real recession coming now and tax rates are going up either way. way, way up.

the good news is that this is the start of a cycle change.

how about the government shutting down the economy then lording over handouts?

What about inflation, if everyone has basic income doesnt that make it worth zero

the gov set a minimum wage which they expect us to live on yet hard working people are still forced to use food banks.maybe they should award themselves the min wage?

I think it's becoming hipster chic to go to foodbanks, kind of like punk squatters were cool.

It's as if you have just woken up reminding me of PG "Wait a minute" XD
Frustrating isn't it. Even more frustrating to be in world were the elite think having more paper makes them more important and entitled to abuse the poor. When in fact in my understanding we are all equal for we are all spirits driving a prison of temporary flesh, we are all family but separated by flesh, blood, veins, muscle and bone as a vinear for our soul. Let not your heart be troubled with overly proud gorilla like mobsters. Wait it out and don't fall for their new agenda.

The concept in itself is wrong.
It shouldn't have to be "us" and "them". Empowering ourselves is hard.
We are the ones who put up with mediocre.
We let ourselves to absorb the brainwashing.
It starts with one. But we believe too less in the power we have. We think we can't change much.
If one succeeds to be changing himself (and it is a never ending process and not a result) - it isn't much?
If yes, then one thinks that he/she is not enough.
This is the root of the issue. Nobody keep nothing to nobody.
Governments are people. So are the politicians or the wealthy or any other kind of "them".

This is just my own humble opinion.

Totally agree, if nothing else, “us and them” is the seed of an ugly mentality. Also just my humble opinion, I am yet to find a soul with this mindset that exhibits happiness in their life.

Why do you call it "protection money"? The rich should pay up to the society that makes them rich

If that were true it would be less of a problem. The last 30 years though have seen the reemergence of trusts in perpetuity, and the creation of a new hereditary elite through wealth created by financial instruments with only an abstract connection to anything of actual ‘value’, as you put it.

True but they'd be cunts to not feel like they owed the game something and we're all players too mate.

Yes it's like shitty tippers

Problem is the referees not the players. Whoever is in charge of giving out basic income becomes the slave master.

Gamespace is the perfect analogy for the new economy. I don't think shit will be needed from the rich its almost like they are the slaves and we are playing them to figure shit out for us.

Interesting perspective. But some of them get rich by playing out the poor.

If you are online all the time doesn't matter a hell of a lot how much money you have.

Whose zooming who

So whats the earning potential from them using this supercomputer.. 1 petaflop lol.. maybe someone can post up just an hour and a day using this computer for BTC mining..bet it would be insane haha

I work in IT for a large bank. last year 4 analysts were shown the door for using a fail over IBM series 900 to mine bitcoin. It later came out that during night shifts over a 9 month period they pocketed 1.8 ish million $. No redress, just hushed up. not a bad hourly rate:)

And I though no one ever got sacked for going with IBM ;)

you don't if you pay for it, they just did'nt pay. :(

Hmm

That beats launching the missles

what about the body bags business youre not going to solve their problem are you?

Ha I always thought it would be cool if all the world's soldiers just switched to game terminals and we agreed on the outcome. They have all kinds of rules of war anyway why not just add a few we can wind up in the same place without killing anybody.

Seems we are getting there :)

That should sort you mate...

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Sure, but what if you don't have a time machine?

Yeah how bout looking at the actual ratings? No time machine required :)

Wait, that's not a Delorean is it?

DOn't laugh it runs on weeeed

You're referring to a possible Dyson sphere around Tabbi's star. Scary stuff if it is. Any civilization that can build on that scale could wipe us out on a whim. I don't buy the notion that an advanced race would be benevolent. Neither does Steven Hawking. Just look at human history and what happened when a primitive society was introduced to an advanced one. See how that worked out for native Americans.

Yes its all relative but that wasn't an advanced society that wiped out the natives in USA. You have to imagine you learn a few things on the way to Dyson sphere generation.

either way the fuckers have evolved past us so why worry, we are in their hands.

Very cool, would I be too dumb for thinking something like this could be a gate that uses the power of the star to make a portal?

Are you talking about a wormhole? Creating it and keeping it stabilized would require a massive amount of energy. A star would be a great source, although it wouldn't be enough. It requires more energy than the sun will put out during its entire lifetime. One question: How do they determine where they'll end up if they go into the hole? That's the bigger issue.

its a little bigger

What's bigger a little bigger or a little bigger's baby?

hell does know. it's for a barbecue folks.

You're going to ruin my reputation

Well since reputation is everything around here, no this doesn't make sense. Civil war, been there done that.

Cali would never use war, they'd just mellow out of the union.

That's if the Snoop Party leads, what about the Shug Party, that's war.

The cyber war would be over in minutes!

You guys are really giving me hope, thanks. War, it *is* the answer!

Can we have Vegas? It's contiguous and has a spanish name

Sure, first move is to occupy the Trump casino, the friday hooker flight will move our operatives in range.

great but what about the rest of us?

Each one of us can declare their freedom at any time, we dont need a state's help for this. If we don't we are recognizing that we were subjagated at birth, it's really that simple.

I was shocked how the world originally laughed at European products, they really were bumpkins.

Also surprising how big slavery was in Europe even without Africa