it's a hardscrabble life in the badlands of cedar rapids in 2047, but you've managed to scrape together enough for a used cybertruck mk iv. the smell of freedom and self-sufficiency is in the air as you stand in the aldi's parking lot and prepare to transfer a small fortune in bitcoin and bored ape nft's to the cybertruck dealer. you hear a chime emit from the pocket of his cargo shorts, and he smiles curtly. select your upgrade:
(a) cybertent (b) "self-driving" (c) recon drone (d) amphibious
right?
y'know the thought that keeps coming back to me, emi? i'd bet my entire collection of apes that this guy really wanted to write that seven shoulders is the most important book that has ever been written, period, but he figured he should tone it down a notch.
Six decades after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, award-winning journalist Sam Forster performs a daring transformation in order to taxonomize the various types of racism that persist in modern America. Seven Shoulders is the most important book on American race relations that has ever been written.
Seven Shoulders is the most important book on American race relations that has ever been written.
Seven Shoulders is the most important book on American race relations that has ever been written.
actually there were no bathtubs full of blood, so technically according to the oxford-mirriam-webster's collegiate abridged dictionary of very useful words, you do not have permission to describe the horrifying deaths of dozens of starving refugees as a "bloodbath" so i will thank you very much to discontinue your use of that term in these circumstances
yeah and the senate couldn't even abide that so they got stabby
wasn't 
paying people in milk at some point?
this is just inflation
the myth is that increased wages cause inflationary spirals. marx argues in wages, price, and profit that increased wages will lead to increased prices, but with two important caveats.
it's a temporary increase caused by the increased demand for basic necessities and mass produced minor luxuries, but that comes from a decreased demand for high end luxuries and the expenses of the capitalist class due to reduced profit margins arising from the general increase in wages. which means capital will flow from production in high end goods and services into the mass production of consumer goods and services, increasing the supply to bring the price back down to long term equilibrium.
and the general wage increases are necessarily larger than the overall price increases, so even though prices are expected to increase under a marxist model, the workers still gain a net benefit from the wage increases. their overall purchasing power goes up.
so his comment is in line with that. a $0.19 increase in the burrito is trivial compared to the benefit workers received from the payouts.
do you start off with a blank map or one full of workers in a newly liberated republic and an industrial base utterly devastated by the war?
i'm guessing bezos knows he's a super genius so he'll certainly figure out how to solve the inherent problems with replacing journalists with chatbots
eventually only himself and a select few "senior editor" prompt engineers will be filling the pages of wapo with only what bezos knows to be true and objective
he'll get a 4th or 5th generation neuralink and start injecting streams of content into his cortex; his merest thoughts will become headlines, pages of op-eds, targeted advertisements, ai-generated video of the pundit class dramatically arguing against unionizing
and there he'll finally ascend into a universe of his own creation, a god at last, far removed from the trifles of reality, the wealthiest and smartest man in all of history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-1KDZTNty4
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well yeah, you have to show an appropriate amount of hand-wringing about the atrocities you commit, enable, support, cover up, lie about, and double down on after your constituents start protesting. that's what separates the adults in the room from the enemies of democracy.