…or else…?

Counterpoint:

I live in a suburb to the north. This week I drove in for a concert at Radio City. There was traffic and crowds. Those are expected in a city. An app provided a method to secure a parking spot before I left home. At the show, we met several folks that had traveled large distances to attend. After, the street crowds were celebrating the Knicks’ win with enthusiasm. We grabbed some street food and drove home on empty streets.

I find it nice to know that I am so close to so many of the world’s best museums and other cultural highlights.

Driving has trade-offs. The ability to come and go as you please vs. carefree travel. Taking what you want or being limited to what you can carry. Commuting is best by transit. Special or occasional trips are best by car.

The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.

My uninformed guess would be insurance. When 95-year old grandma dies, someone is getting sued. If only to defray some of the funeral costs. The aides aren’t worth suing. But the agency is.

… plus, capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Temple#Reproductive_autonomy

That leaves room for pity. Not optimal.

Several.

• The best coworkers. Really.
• Paid lunch. Like, they pay for the food.
• Generous health benefits.
• Generous stock grants.
• Generous 401k.
• Unlimited PTO. Yes, really.
• Rapid promotion cycle.
• Respect. My department (operations) is frequently called out for it’s critical role in the company’s success.

With a built-in ups.

I was in a meeting at a credit card company about 2 decades ago where a VP said exactly that - without the AI part.

Even when it gets to that point, skill in trades would be useful. No one will barter food for a program, but would for a fix of leaking plumbing.

This guy heats.

https://xkcd.com/1737/

They are all over me. I expect it’s because I work for an AI-adjacent company.

I’d really like to know how they handle all the small-scale HW issues. As a DC tech, I’m kept quite busy with those

My company already does this.

Potato is supposed to be easy, though I haven’t had the adversed success.

Our zucchini got bugs and stopped producing.

We regularly get more tomatoes than we can eat. But they need to be protected from large animals. Canning could make that last all year.

Perhaps onions?

Against photography “Could you find an honest observer to declare that the invasion of photography and the great industrial mad­ness of our times have no part at all in this deplorable result? Are we to suppose that a people whose eyes are growing used to considering the results of a material sci­ence as though they were the products of the beautiful, will not in the course of time have singularly diminished its faculties of judging and of feeling what are among the most ethereal and immaterial aspects of creation?” ~Charles Baudelaire

Against the printing press “Writing indeed, which brings in gold for us, should be respected and held to be nobler than all goods, unless she has suffered degradation in the brothel of the printing presses. She is a maiden with a pen, a harlot in print.” ~Filippo de Strata

“For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.” ~Socrates. On the invention of writing.

This.