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Indeos wrote:

Yuktova wrote:Earth is plentiful with resources. When job automation becomes so high it makes there only two classes - the rich and the poor, the system stops. People will want a new, innovative system that cares for everyone and the environment. We just need to be there first before the Communists show up. If so, the same problems will happen unless the government/everyday people become more scientific in nature.

Eventually we'll hit a post-scarcity economy and there'll only be one class: everyone.

Indeos wrote:

Hathradic States wrote:But for every plan you have, we will have a backup plane to beat your plan. And then if you beat our back up plan, we'll have a backup for that.

Gogogo backup plane!

Srsly though, I'll go down fighting. Not like Hitler and Goebbels. Even if I lose, you'll remember me. And if I win, I can at least promise you a swift death.

Hathradic States wrote:

Auremena wrote:Soviet Union, German Empire, Third Reich, that's all I can think of.

U.S.S.R. Cambodia, Maoist China, Castro's Cuba, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, etc...

Hathradic States wrote:

Indeos wrote:
Gogogo backup plane!

Srsly though, I'll go down fighting. Not like Hitler and Goebbels. Even if I lose, you'll remember me. And if I win, I can at least promise you a swift death.

If you win, then you clearly fought a different Reich than mine. The Arizona Reich shall be undefeatable.

Auremena wrote:

Lackadaisical2 wrote:Lucky. I still have one scar from before I can remember (and I don't mean the last time I binged). *TMI stuff here*

I have one from when I was...10? It was the summer before 4th grade. GOt fucked up bad, stabbed by a rusty tomato cage. It's hard to see, but it's there. The rest have healed, or are recent.

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:I always found needles amazingly fun to play with. o:

*faints*

Indeos wrote:

Yuktova wrote:Earth is plentiful with resources. When job automation becomes so high it makes there only two classes - the rich and the poor, the system stops. People will want a new, innovative system that cares for everyone and the environment. We just need to be there first before the Communists show up. If so, the same problems will happen unless the government/everyday people become more scientific in nature.

Eventually we'll hit a post-scarcity economy and there'll only be one class: the rich.

The Nuclear Fist wrote:The violin really sets the mood.

Auremena wrote:

Lackadaisical2 wrote:Lucky. I still have one scar from before I can remember (and I don't mean the last time I binged). *TMI stuff here*

I have one from when I was...10? It was the summer before 4th grade. GOt fucked up bad, stabbed by a rusty tomato cage. It's hard to see, but it's there. The rest have healed, or are recent.

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:

Indeos wrote:
Eventually we'll hit a post-scarcity economy and there'll only be one class: the rich.

In a world of finite resources, is post-scarcity even possible?

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:<3 I love the violin.

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:

Indeos wrote:
Eventually we'll hit a post-scarcity economy and there'll only be one class: the rich.

In a world of finite resources, is post-scarcity even possible?

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:

Auremena wrote:I have one from when I was...10? It was the summer before 4th grade. GOt fucked up bad, stabbed by a rusty tomato cage. It's hard to see, but it's there. The rest have healed, or are recent.*faints*

Sorry. x] I don't like stabbing things, though.
Just... fondle them.

Lackadaisical2 wrote:

Auremena wrote:I have one from when I was...10? It was the summer before 4th grade. GOt fucked up bad, stabbed by a rusty tomato cage. It's hard to see, but it's there. The rest have healed, or are recent.

I remember that. *nods*
This bottle of wine is almost gone... can't wait to start on the beer.

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:

Auremena wrote:I have one from when I was...10? It was the summer before 4th grade. GOt fucked up bad, stabbed by a rusty tomato cage. It's hard to see, but it's there. The rest have healed, or are recent.*faints*

Sorry. x] I don't like stabbing things, though.
Just... fondle them.

Indeos wrote:
Eventually we'll hit a post-scarcity economy and there'll only be one class: the rich.

In a world of finite resources, is post-scarcity even possible?

Hathradic States wrote:If you win, then you clearly fought a different Reich than mine. The Arizona Reich shall be undefeatable.

Auremena wrote:

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:Sorry. x] I don't like stabbing things, though.
Just... fondle them.

Lackadaisical2 wrote:I remember that. *nods*
This bottle of wine is almost gone... can't wait to start on the beer.

Did I tell you that? It's on my leg, not where you think it is. Pull your mind out of the vagina, Lacky.

Lackadaisical2 wrote:

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:In a world of finite resources, is post-scarcity even possible?

We'd need the universe to be infinite, and to have reliable and faster than light space travel.

Indeos wrote:

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:
In a world of finite resources, is post-scarcity even possible?

We'll eventually go into space and presumably our resource intake will, at some point, outstrip our use. Or we'll somehow manage matter replication.

The Nuclear Fist wrote:

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:<3 I love the violin.

I learned to play it in college. It's my favourite instrument.

The Nuclear Fist wrote:

Hathradic States wrote:If you win, then you clearly fought a different Reich than mine. The Arizona Reich shall be undefeatable.

Your species' fascination with political dick-waving and warmongering is laughable. A single of my spawn could form an army ten times the power any nation on your planet has ever known.

Lackadaisical2 wrote:

Auremena wrote:quote="Lackadaisical2";p="8920162"]I remember that. *nods*
This bottle of wine is almost gone... can't wait to start on the beer.

Did I tell you that? It's on my leg, not where you think it is. Pull your mind out of the vagina, Lacky.

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:

Lackadaisical2 wrote:We'd need the universe to be infinite, and to have reliable and faster than light space travel.

Yeah, and that doesn't seem likely within this millennium or three.
I'd gladly be wrong, though.

Indeos wrote:

The Nuclear Fist wrote:Your species' fascination with political dick-waving and warmongering is laughable. A single of my spawn could form an army ten times the power any nation on your planet has ever known.

I'll still fight it to the last bitter, blood-flavored breath.

Indeos wrote:I'll still fight it to the last bitter, blood-flavored breath.

Auremena wrote:

Lackadaisical2 wrote:Yes you did, and my mind wasn't there... yet.

So if putting your fist into an... orifice..is called fisting, what about your head?

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:I wonder if they have blood flavored Jelly beans...

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:

Lackadaisical2 wrote:We'd need the universe to be infinite, and to have reliable and faster than light space travel.

Yeah, and that doesn't seem likely within this millennium or three.
I'd gladly be wrong, though.

Indeos wrote:
We'll eventually go into space and presumably our resource intake will, at some point, outstrip our use. Or we'll somehow manage matter replication.

^~o It wouldn't be easy transporting stuff.
Besides, look at diamonds and Debeers, price manipulation could exist regardless of actual supply.

Auremena wrote:

Lackadaisical2 wrote:Yes you did, and my mind wasn't there... yet. :D

So if putting your fist into an... orifice..is called fisting, what about your head?