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Be willing to murder your colleagues?

Robot-made pizza came up about a decade ago on Idle Thumbs noting that the guy who was promoting it was suggesting it would be cheaper to make, yet he wasn’t willing to offer cheaper pizza prices.

I wonder if it’s legally possible to make a non-profit restaurant or other food source that charged cost + 10% and then sought to automate as much as possible and pay fair wages when automation wasn’t, and see if that could compete effectively in fair market capitalism. I’m sure there are barriers to trying to make such a thing happen (not to mention creative legal attacks by for-profit competitors) but I don’t know specifically what those barriers are.

We kinda knew this was going to happen. New Hollywood really wants to be classic Hollywood, where the studios own the lives of the actors and control every aspect. But I expected them to start by cyber-thesbianning Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable.

But yeah, the studios are going through a creativity crisis, now decades into a best practices run of avoiding new ideas for less risky sequels and high concept films, preferring spectacle over introspection and character study.

The copyright maximalism and Hollywood accounting isn’t really about piracy or greed so much as desperation to keep old promises of exponential dividend growth.

Every bubble eventually pops, and the longer they try to keep it intact, the more disastrous the outcome.

In the meantime, I look forward to when small indie directors can star Bogart and Harlow in their concept film.

I was called too lazy as a kid so much that it figures largely in my debilitating disability. Then in the 90s studying psychology I developed a hypothesis there was no such thing as laziness (or the sin sloth as its recognized by post-Calvanist Protestantism) rather all instances of avolition could be traced to dysfunction, poor health or misunderstanding the degree of fatigue caused by the necessary work.

By the 2010s the psychology sector came to the same conclusion, that productivity could be improved by creating a healthy environment for work that allowed people to do human things between tasks (take bathroom breaks, check social media, eat snacks, etc.) Or can be decreased by making the work environment toxic (crunching, harassment, stale offerings in the vending machine, pressure to not take relief breaks, etc.)

The epidemic lockdown of 2020 and mass furlogh actually vindicated these hypotheses (though I haven’t read the studies) when people turned to hobbies with fervent obsession, often enough yielding marketable results, resulting in the great resignation.

To answer your question, for the non-tech-savvy having to pick a server is, yes, too much of a leap. We are conditioned in the industrialized capitalist world against making decisions we don’t understand.

If we want to market it, we could make a wizard that randomly designates a server from a set of cooperating servers. Include also reminders that a user can join multiple servers and each one has separate rules (say, regarding posting NSFW material even to appropriate communities.)

I just talked to a Redditor who was entirely unfamiliar with the recent changes at Reddit.