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> I would encourage you to read the facts [...] I already have, thank you. > They sold 180–190 °F coffee, with a lid, to a 79yo lady at a drive-through window. I know. That "79yo lady" is an adult who is liable for her own actions. Coffee is hot, duh , I would expect someone of that age to know that. McDonald's isn't responsible for babysitting people who should know better than to squeeze hot beverages between their…
> I know. That "79yo lady" is an adult who is liable for her own actions. Coffee is hot, duh, I would expect someone of that age to know that. McDonald's isn't responsible for babysitting people who should know better than to squeeze hot beverages between their legs. Are you aware that during discovery, it was uncovered that McDonalds had undertaken studies to determine how hot they needed to make the coffee to avoid…
Rethinking the Luddites
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Re: Rethinking the Luddites
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it could just be that freeing humanity from the need to work takes longer than we thought are we worse off than we were before industrial automation? I thought the economics said the opposite (even if we exclude the eastern nations that benefits from western job loss from our utilitarian analysis here -- which we shouldn't) that meme was really good btw
> it could just be that freeing humanity from the need to work takes longer than we thought May I suggest your read Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules"? We've created a society which requires us to spend oodles of hours doing bullshit work and administer hundreds of bullshit services. We could easily feed, house, clothe, entertain, and care for everyone with 25 hour work weeks. We (as a society) just chose not to.
I don't think the complexity of human society can be boiled down to "we just choose not be perfect"