• Hexamerous [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    You could just do what you do now, but after removing all the bullshit PR, Banking, Marketing and PMC jobs, there’s double the workforce so the plumbers work 50% and are happy because they have more time to work out and hang out with friends and family.

    Alternatively: we repurpose “self-driving” Tesla busses, put in a bunch of sleep pods and turn them into mobile automated gulags on wheels. They just drive up and unload a crew of former PMCs/CEOs led in at gunpoint by AI robodog, restrained by shock-collar, that amazon gadget registering if you’re moving or not and geo-fencing as they are forced to scrub that bowl, fix that leak, paint that wall and so on. They get re-educated in VR (that detects if your eye-lids are closed or not) as they are transported between worksites and sustain themselves on a steady diet of soylent meal-replacement. The busses are parked on a repurposed luxury liner just circling the globe picking them up and unloading them to disaster sites as needed. Trapped in a high-tech torment nexus of their own creation until they repent, after which they get a small apartment and a bicycle in some really small town where they can never hurt anyone again. Fully automated so no camp guards are needed or hurt.

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      Plumbers and other tradesmen are so hard to get in the current economy that I often see them be treated with the same reverence as doctors or priests when shit hits the fan. Maybe it’s different in the US or UK but parents pushing their children into white collar and PMC jobs has created a massive void in our economy.

      These parents must sell up everything and live in poverty to lend their white collar children just enough to qualify for mortgages to buy hyperspeculated ovepriced assets once referred to as “homes”. Still no other system is possible then this aparantly.

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        Only the ancients had technology to build these so called “homes”. A sort of hollowed out cube made from wood or concrete, with bent metal tubes, and twisted copper strings that could make light where the sun didn’t shine, transport fresh water in and poop out. It’s lost to us now. Only a handful of secretive “handy men” posses the knowledge and they keep it a well guarded secret.

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      scrub that bowl, fix that leak, paint that wall

      We make a highly habit-forming mobile game out of this, where they earn cryptocurrency so it feels like they’re going to become billionaires, then we crash the crypto