This. It feels like USA just lost the Cold War.

> Tens of millions of people are going to wake up [this morning] to find that they don’t live in the country they thought they did. Liberals, classical and otherwise, will discover overnight that they’re now outnumbered by a coalition of earnest fascists, partisan Republicans who’ll rationalize literally anything, and millions upon millions of less tribal voters who don’t care how corrupt Trump is or which laws he breaks or whether he overturns elections or not so long as they get the results on their pet issues that they’re hoping for.

> That’s an identity crisis. A big one. And a lot of people are going to be having it at the same time.

Yes, that's my point. I'm complaining about the one idiot pointing to the other idiot crapping on science and boasting about eating toxins being top comment on this fractally appalling story.

Happy Halloween

> If the technology really advances to that point it will be very cheap to live.

Yes. But the flipside of that is that it's hard to earn money. The cheaper it is to live, the harder it is to make money.

The problem UBI solves is when most humans can no longer compete with machines in the economic system. Once that happens there are only a few options, and the least unpleasant is simply to give them (us) money tokens.

Stupidity has always bothered me. Strident pseudo-intellectual stupidity bothers me almost more than cruel ignorant stupidity.

At least now I'm angry in a constructive way.

On movie sets the candles and whatnot are props not lighting, there are other lights in use to illuminate the set and actors.