EarthCruiser is closing!?!?!

[gregmchugh]

Boy, has this thread gone off the rails


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[gator70]

yeah. “Reskill” being code for some near min wage service job. There is a disease that’s infected the tech bro mind, one that’s utterly cavalier about human consequences. I dare say should all these predictions come to pass (i doubt they will) our gator friend will be among its first casualties. “teaching AI agents for non technical folks”, give me a break. I give that job six months, tops.

Hmm, lose a job? I've been retired for four years. Don't need one.

 

[ThundahBeagle]

Not to be that guy, but the idea that it's always been that way is deeply rooted in colonialism. There are and have been cultures outside of European colonialism that did not operate this way.

There are plenty of cultures, many of them indigenous, that operated under totally different economic models.

Heck, even the model you just described is only true back to the start of capitalism. Before that, feudalism (objectively worse and more exploitative) operated under a different model.

Please understand that I say this affectionately, but...are you on crack? (That's for comedic shock value only. No real offense. But yeah, you ARE that guy.
This has nothing to do with colonialism. At ANY time in history, if someone made a good product, and someone else at, say, the Egyptian bazaar made the SAME product and charged less... the one charging less gets the sale. If the product was not quite as good, he still often got the sale. It has always been cost vs quality. And another calculation of "do Ireally NEED" that higher quality.

 

[ThundahBeagle]

Hmm, lose a job? I've been retired for four years. Don't need one.

Yep. So you dont  care of someone else, or a bunch of someone else's lose their job. You are all set

 

[ReluctantTraveler]

Please understand that I say this affectionately, but...are you on crack? (That's for comedic shock value only. No real offense. But yeah, you ARE that guy.
This has nothing to do with colonialism. At ANY time in history, if someone made a good product, and someone else at, say, the Egyptian bazaar made the SAME product and charged less... the one charging less gets the sale. If the product was not quite as good, he still often got the sale. It has always been cost vs quality. And another calculation of "do Ireally NEED" that higher quality.

Degree in anthropology. I know more about this than you. Sorry.

 

[ThundahBeagle]

Degree in anthropology. I know more about this than you. Sorry.

And how do you know I dont have a degree in anthropology and graduated higher in my class than you? Presuming you know more than others, that's overconfidence. I can see right up your nose with that statement.

And you still didnt disprove my statement. Goat milk in the Himalayas at 10 cents or goat milk in the Himalayas at 8 cents. Everyone's going for the 8 cent, unless its soured or curdled. I mean all other things the same.

The idea of "sparing no expense" is the realm of the wealthy or the foolish, and always has been

 

[ReluctantTraveler]

And how do you know I dont have a degree in anthropology and graduated higher in my class than you? Presuming you know more than others, that's overconfidence. I can see right up your nose with that statement.

And you still didnt disprove my statement. Goat milk in the Himalayas at 10 cents or goat milk in the Himalayas at 8 cents. Everyone's going for the 8 cent, unless its soured or curdled. I mean all other things the same.

The idea of "sparing no expense" is the realm of the wealthy or the foolish, and always has been

I don't care what your degree is or what you've done. I know for a literal fact that what you've said is not consistently accurate, and your inability to imagine a system outside of capitalism existing in non-colonial or pre-colonial spaces isn't my problem.

 

[ThundahBeagle]

Degree in anthropology. I know more about this than you. Sorry.

"You can always tell a Harvard man...but you can't tell him much."

Maybe your degree isnt from Harvard but the quote seems to apply

 

[ThundahBeagle]

I don't care what your degree is or what you've done. I know for a literal fact that what you've said is not consistently accurate, and your inability to imagine a system outside of capitalism existing in non-colonial or pre-colonial spaces isn't my problem.

And I dont care what your degree is in, or what you've done. Show me one place and time where the general population wasn't trying to get widget A for less money, or the person who makes widget A want trying ti make a better margin on it when the times got rough.

Egyptian pharaoh was once buried in a pink granite sarcophagus, with alabaster canopic jars. His coffin was gilded in gold and lapis lazuli. By the time of the Greek period, pharaoh was buried in a cloth with a painted face on it.

Capitalism or not, corners have always been cut in the name of economy

 

[ReluctantTraveler]

"You can always tell a Harvard man...but you can't tell him much."

Maybe your degree isnt from Harvard but the quote seems to apply

Yes yes, my prestigious state college education 🙄 😂

 

[ThundahBeagle]

Yes yes, my prestigious state college education 🙄 😂

I wouldn't discount a state education. Like you seem to be

 

[gregmchugh]

This discussion is now past “going off the rails”, we now seem to be stuck in a middle school playground altercation


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[ThundahBeagle]

Well, to be honest, I do value @ReluctantTraveler and his contributions here. I'm as likely as not to agree with him. So, if there are any perceived hostilities, I retract mine as they are not intended.

 

[jk6661]

This discussion is now past “going off the rails”, we now seem to be stuck in a middle school playground altercation


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What? You don't see the direct link between Earthcruiser closing, higher education, anthropology, capitalism, and colonialism? 😉