Message from @Dr.Wol

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2018-08-11 13:24:54 UTC  

Well if they would be able to comfortably live somewhere cheaper at 25k what's to stop them from spending an extra 10k just to have a more expesive lifestyle, ie. Living in the city

2018-08-11 13:25:02 UTC  

you generate the middle class, by having more work than workers

2018-08-11 13:25:13 UTC  

The work is automated.

2018-08-11 13:25:20 UTC  

so companies are forced to pay more for the better people

2018-08-11 13:25:22 UTC  

There isn't more work than workers.

2018-08-11 13:25:49 UTC  

hence my two solutions,

Space colonisation

Warfare

2018-08-11 13:26:05 UTC  

You either find them a new place to work labor-ish

Or you have them kill each other

2018-08-11 13:26:08 UTC  

"Space colonization" isn't a solution. It's magic as far as this conversation is concerned.

2018-08-11 13:26:21 UTC  

"A wizard did it" basically.

2018-08-11 13:26:43 UTC  

you know, i had that argument used against me when places like Patreon started

2018-08-11 13:26:55 UTC  

and youtube monetization

2018-08-11 13:26:58 UTC  

"No one will pay for that"

2018-08-11 13:27:00 UTC  

How's that doing these days.

2018-08-11 13:27:09 UTC  

ask Tim, he seems to be holding on well enough

2018-08-11 13:27:30 UTC  

"well enough" in that he's not starving. I don't think Tim is thriving.

2018-08-11 13:27:41 UTC  

How much travel is the guy doing these days?

2018-08-11 13:27:50 UTC  

How much is there to travel TO these days?

2018-08-11 13:28:14 UTC  

Tim already said he wont go to extremist rallies, only to neutral ones

2018-08-11 13:28:33 UTC  

or Sargon, he's not going anywhere, and earning enough

2018-08-11 13:28:37 UTC  

Tim makes really good money from what I understand

2018-08-11 13:28:47 UTC  

and dozens of famous pundits etc

2018-08-11 13:29:08 UTC  

granted the entry market is shrinking for YT and Punditry

2018-08-11 13:29:13 UTC  

Extra money goes to improving his content

2018-08-11 13:29:18 UTC  

So this justifies faith in space colonization solving economic problems that will happen in our lifetimes....

2018-08-11 13:29:30 UTC  

This is not a convincing argument.

2018-08-11 13:29:42 UTC  

neither is your "Oh I dont see it happening, so its magic" argument

2018-08-11 13:29:46 UTC  

Dozens of pundits are not starving due to patreon, therefore ???

2018-08-11 13:31:25 UTC  

Elon Musk, notorious optimist, claims that one-way travel to Mars will cost $250,000 in current dollars by 2050.

2018-08-11 13:33:47 UTC  

Being a little more realistic I think we can say that merely traveling to another planet will still be outside the means of a low-skilled worker for the remainder of my lifetime at least. Let alone being able to afford the cost of living there without a skill.

2018-08-11 13:34:05 UTC  

thats only cuz theres no race to get there ASAP

2018-08-11 13:34:12 UTC  

So Joe Truckdriver ain't going to get a ticket to Mars to solve his financial problems.

2018-08-11 13:34:20 UTC  

This is a nonsense argument.

2018-08-11 13:34:43 UTC  

Nor is he going to get Patreon support.

2018-08-11 13:35:39 UTC  

You realise it took less than 20 years to get to the moon right? Cuz we finally wanted to

2018-08-11 13:35:46 UTC  

I think I'm a little better positioned than Joe Truckdriver to survive in the coming economy, but if I had to live off Patreon money I think I'd starve.

2018-08-11 13:36:02 UTC  

How many people live on the moon.

2018-08-11 13:36:05 UTC  

This is silly.

2018-08-11 13:36:11 UTC  

Thats so not the point

2018-08-11 13:36:14 UTC  

Yes it is

2018-08-11 13:36:21 UTC  

Zero money is generated on the moon.

2018-08-11 13:36:29 UTC  

yes and thats not the point