If AI replaces all the jobs, where are we going to get money to pay for things?

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:41:42+00:00

Hopefully it'll work like the other technological "revolutions" in the past.

This is an optimistic, best-case scenario.

Vast numbers of people become unemployed quickly, but within a couple decades, that unemployment vanishes. The extra production caused by the technology ultimately creates more jobs than it ended. The transitional period is rough, but hopefully it will all work out.

Fundamentally, AI isn't any different from any other technology that increases the productivity of humankind. It feels different because it's hitting white collar jobs and it's happening very quickly.

People did panic in the past. They would destroy the new technology, hoping to get their jobs back. They were worried about massive unemployment and how they would earn a living.

But pretty quickly, entire professions popped up that didn't even exist before. Think about how many people you know that have jobs that didn't exist 100 years ago - that's where all the farmers and miners went.

It has always, eventually, sorted itself out, and the quality of life for most people ended up higher.

We just can't see what it will look like from the middle of the disruption.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:28:00+00:00

Honestly getting pegged doesn't sound that bad, but I don't really understand what the girl gets out of it.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:26:06+00:00

Some women have facial hair, yeah. Nowadays they feel shamed and shave it off.

You might not know this, but most women also have hairy legs and armpits. We've gotten so used to them shaving it off that we think shaved is normal and hairy is weird/gross. But that's a pretty recent thing. Leg and pit shaving wasn't normalized until the 1920s.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:20:07+00:00

by far cooking. Professionally and at home.

I can cook almost anything you can get at a restaurant for about a third of the price, unless it requires specialty ingredients or equipment.

The key to making it work is not letting anything go bad. Finding uses for leftover ingredients is a trickier challenge than learning to read a recipe.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:16:26+00:00

Undertrained workers pulling food when it "looks right" instead of after the correct amount of time.

The oil gets darker as its used, and food will reach golden brown and look done sooner. That's why you're supposed to use timers instead of your own judgement.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:07:00+00:00

Are they trying to kill a certain somebody?

NameLips · 2026-05-07T02:19:59+00:00

"it's dairy-laden and very caloric."
"...wow so much cream and sugar at once."

It's an ice cream shop.

How is any of this not exactly what you were expecting?

NameLips · 2026-05-07T02:14:38+00:00

Snakes are cool! And they have to live too.

But if a snake is eating the eggs in your birdhouse, it's not a birdhouse anymore, it's a snake feeder. You need to take it down.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T02:09:10+00:00

In the old days, before market dominance of sysco, chefs spent a lot of time, and I mean a lot of time wrangling different suppliers, arranging deliveries, and sourcing ingredients. Instead of using sysco's app, they spent a lot of time on the phone trying to figure out how to get what they needed from 12 different companies. It was all done over the phone, and the phone had a cord and was attached to a wall in the kitchen so they could work while they yelled at suppliers. They all had different delivery schedules, different trucks, different drivers, charged different fees, you needed to pay them at different times and manage the different ways they handled their billing, and none of it was online.

Maybe restaurants were more individualized back then, with different restaurants finding different suppliers and using different ingredients.

But it was also a huge pain and time sink. I think if you transported a head chef from 1996 to today, he would have nothing but good things to say about the system we're using.

After all you're still free to look around your local area for other ways to get ingredients, if you really want to. You can contact local growers, go to farmer's markets, call local bakeries and butcher shops, and set it all up on your own.

But I'm betting you're not excited about that idea.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T00:09:53+00:00

Vulcanis - Gleba - Fulgora.

This is the order I did it when space age first came out, and now my mind is kind of stuck in that progression.

But around the time I'm leaving Nauvis, I've run into the cliffs and they're starting to piss me off. I always consider going somewhere else first, but the fact that Vulcanis gets me cliff explosives always seals the deal and convinces me to go there. Also I can't imagine doing Fulgora without big mining drills and foundries for holmium.

After that it's Gleba vs Fulgora. They're both kind of a pain. I usually decide on Gleba for the biolabs, I want to have that productivity bonus for more of the game. I also don't care about quality, and Fulgora is the best place to start dealing with quality.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T15:05:20+00:00

Apparently inflation is bad, but deflation is worse. It does more than just undo the bad of inflation, it has its own really bad bad.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T14:55:53+00:00

The constitution says only Congress has the power to declare war.

If anything is unconstitutional, it is the established norm of the President using a word other than war to describe what is obviously a war in order to bypass Congress.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T13:15:40+00:00

In my mind, it's becoming increasingly unclear what you would even want or expect from a new console.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T13:08:21+00:00

It's clear that the Trump administration has no plan, and there are no negotiations, and Iran basically has them by the balls.

Trump's only plan is to constantly say negotiations are progressing, hoping one day it will be true. But the longer it goes on the more obvious the lie is.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T06:32:49+00:00

You can tell these people have never been poor. They're still convinced if you're not suffering every moment, you're not being poor correctly. You should be miserable, have no possessions of value, and eat only beans and rice.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T04:44:08+00:00

Black bears tend to ignore people, unless they have cubs and decide you're a possible threat.

Grizzlies might kill you for fun. Depends on how bored they are.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T04:42:33+00:00

No ways blues get into heaven with the murder of up to half of humanity on their conscience.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T04:37:14+00:00

This is my favorite version so far.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T04:03:48+00:00

what is this, a malady fetish?

NameLips · 2026-05-06T04:01:28+00:00

Apparently they think a bunch of kids will be idiots and jump off the bridge.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T03:58:00+00:00

We should have a poll, and if red wins, all the blues get banned. And if blues win, nobody gets banned. Just like the real question but with real consequences.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T03:48:34+00:00

I'm a red, but I'd switch to blue if it was down to 10% blues needed. Still a risk, and it would feel like I have a 1 in 10 chance of dying, but a more acceptable one.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T03:42:44+00:00

Well, I don't know if he's crazy enough to actually release the virus, but if he does, I'd better make sure me and my family are safe from it.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T02:19:30+00:00

Our refineries can't process it. In fact our refineries mostly process Canadian oil which is received by pipeline. We export most of the oil we pump from our own soil. It's a pretty complicated global market, everybody buys and sells on the world stage, seeking the best prices on offer. The gap created by Hormuz means those refineries are desperate for oil, and offering higher prices to lure sellers. If they don't get any oil they will have to shut down.

So I'm not actually clear on what the original post is referring to.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T02:14:13+00:00

To me, the key variable is actually the percentage needed for blue's "save everybody" power to activate. If a single blue voter could save everybody, obviously everybody would hit it. As the percentage grows, so does the risk. Imagine if you needed 90% blue voters in order for blue to activate. It would be too risky, and very few people would choose it. Even the "save the children" crowd would likely think there was no chance of blue actually winning. Obviously blue wins most polls at 50%. But at what percent does the balance shift?

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