Today I would like to bring some voices that have been forced into the shallows because of what they had to say.
I haven't spoken much to @softgrip but I will go out on a limb and say that he just wanted to post posts like this one:
https://steemit.com/life/@softgrip/my-best-mate-jax
But, because of the state of union here on Steemit he got tangled up with @berniesanders and found out that when you mess with the bull, ya gets the horns.
That is too bad, so sad, but this is what we get to put up with until tptb shuffle up the distribution a little bit.
This is no consolation to Jax.
I got nothing against loving hard, and that is what Bernie does, but being this hard seems over the top, to me.
Instead of wiping @softgrip out I would have liked to have seen an intermediary step in and try to establish that @softgrip just wants to be free to speak his mind when he sees something that he disagrees with.
The other Voice from the Shallows I would like to spotlight brings up a good question.
Why do the minnows get downvoted but the whales get voted to the trending page for doing the very same things?
@blockcodes raises an important issue, if you ask me.
I think the problem the price is having is that the people we are trying to attract (small investors) are getting turned off by the truth of the platform.
Blotting out speech you don't like is not a good way to attract free thinkers, if you ask me.
Word gets around, and WHAM!, nobody wants to play at your house any more.
Then you start getting a reputation for being unattractive, and life is over for you, socially.
Thanks to all the people that are making this possibility look like the reality!
Remember, Steemizen, we make this place what it is.
We must not forget those that sacrificed to bring us this wonderful state of the union.
It is up to us to set our standards.
Do we want to be known for blotting out small fry while the same behavior by those with favored status gets paid?
Remaining silent favors the status quo.
Have a perfectly peaceful day.
Keep working, stop paying. No war, but the class war!!
Viva! Tradeqwik, the exchange that pays you!
How to win in court for far less!!
There is no better social policy than jobs.
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HILARIOUS!
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Jobs are detrimental to personal development, most of the time, and are extractive in nature. We should all own everything together, and not have to work for money.
Actually it's really simple to explain why Socialism is not good - Socialism removes incentive. Without incentive nothing gets done.
That is simply not true. First of all, incentives come in different forms. An incentive can be to help others, create a functioning society, learn, have fun, explore, etc.
Btw, I'm not a socialist. I'm a communalist.
I believe in a post-scarcity society, with local, direct governance, not socialism. States are almost as bad as corporations.
With modern technology, the need for toil is disappearing, what we need in the future is to make work voluntary, and give universal access to all resources. The robots and computers will do the rest. That future is increasingly possible.
Voluntary work? Work for the love of doing something isn't a reality for many people. Who loves to clean sewer drains? Who builds the robots? Your head is way up there in the clouds.
I am not talking about next year. There aren't many sewer drains to clean, most jobs are in service and management nowadays, manufacturing and dirty labour is a small part.
Cleaning sewers can be done by robots soon.
And robots will robots, that's how it works already, just like robots are building cars. A self driving car is a robot anyway.
My head is not in the clouds, I follow technical developments closely, it's a hobby of mine.
I know what's coming, advances in robotics are very rapid now, big money is flowing in.
Just wait and see, you'll be surprised.
The work left for humans will be care work, like nurses, teachers, and creative and innovative work, like artists, inventors and programmers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/26/jobs-future-automation-robots-skills-creative-health
Robots can't replace most workers. Robots can do repetitive tasks very well and very quickly but when it comes to problem solving they fail and will always fail at these problems that arrive in a world built for humans.
A human world is very inconsistent and not all humans want the same thing. That house building robot is going to have to be able to adapt to each little whim that us fussy humans have.
Simply do a Google search about the sewer drain cleaning thing - you'll find hundreds of companies in any large city. Do you need to be schooled on supply and demand?
The article is written quite well but I personally think it is still very optimistic.
Take for instance this: I shoot video. I was interested in buying a 6-axis robot arm that is easily programmable that could hold about 1.5kg and have a reach of about 1.5m fully extended. By all means quite a small robot. I wanted it so that I could program it to move my camera and do movements like you find in the Kendrick Lamar - Be Humble video. A robot like this base price would be about $12,000 with a teach pendant to program it and that is a very basic robot. The one that was used in the video was a lot bigger and a lot more expensive ($60k or more) and it still has a slight shake in the video camera movement which I would not have accepted.
For many tasks there is no human replacement. A human is easily teachable and no special knowledge other than the ability to communicate with each other is needed to be able to pass knowledge from one human to another. A human can also multi-task, a human can problem solve even without having access to a huge database of knowledge to draw from (humans are better at solving problems in a human world).
Don't sell yourself short just yet - you as a human being are still valuable. I'd let you clean my sewer drain any time.
Well, maybe if you take out the wage slavery, otherwise the best social policy is stop pointing guns at people and telling them what to do, imo.
I was pretty shocked to see de facto censorship here by flag abusers. Very, very sad for free speech advocates.
not to mention also, , , and .
Lol, it has been like this from the very beginning.
There is only approved speak approved here, otherwise they wish it would go away.
Just good crapitalism.
Love your content FBA. Always have. You were the first person to actually stop me from making a terrible mistake in court, and handed me the tools to learn how to defend myself simply by being a human being and showing me the door to freedome ie marcstevens.net and howtowinincourt AND ericwhoru. If it was not for you I would not have helped others the same way you have helped me. granted I lost my immigration case and got deported anyways, however, I take full responsibilty for my mistakes and the outcome. Now I continue to learn from my mistakes as I shape my circular trapezoids into perfection.
Thanks for that.
I shut off my voting bot and don't get around as much.
It looks like I am going north before I get to come back south, again.
It's for work, so gotta go, but will be better off for it.
It's our world, we can only order it as best we can.
I was excited to see a post from you man, you have been a nice voice of reason and often fun and kindness and truth too, to many of us.
I am always happy to see your name here and when I do not for periods, I honestly miss you FBA.
Your friend, Barry
Thanks, Barry, your words are very kind.
When you get ready to run for mayor of steemitown I got banner space for you!
We need somebody to centralize scuttlebutt distribution, if you ask me.
I have a lot of thoughts on the centralization of power everywhere, as you know LOL.
I will always remember you, even when you are silent.
I respect you and like you a whole lot.
I say it, again, because I will always mean it.
Well, at the moment this place sucks to find posts that don't meet with stinc et al's approval.
I don't plan on going silent, you know something I don't?
I hope you will connect with me outside of here by the twitter or Fedbook or email or some other surveilled crap we can stay in touch with man
LOL.
-- have a nice weekend
You can make a fake minds.com account, they don't need a valid email.
The messenger is encrypted, and my username is the same.