Daily Archives: August 12, 2014

Mechanization Is A Feature Not A Bug: Part 2

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

Examples where our robot overlords have made life better: ATMs: Remember the misery that the bank before ubiquitous ATMs? They sucked! Are you old enough to remember manually trying to get your money out of a bank? (Young people might … Continue reading →

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Mechanization Is A Feature Not A Bug: Part 1

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

The politics of minimum wage are a perpetual motion machine. On one side you’ve got folks who scream “living wage” as if jobs exist to support salaries. (Hint: they don’t. Jobs exist to get shit done; theoretically shit that has … Continue reading →

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