Fast Food Strikes

[Saz]

[The Dharma Bum]

you are a run of the mill consumer, and when you don't have a job where is your purchasing power going to be then?

[The Dharma Bum]

I'm not saying we should stop or otherwise inhibit technical developments, I'm talking about how we can deal with the effects of technological development as a species.

because our paradigm is about to change very rapidly. the age old monetary concept is no longer valid

consider this question

do humans control technology, or does technology control them? The instinctive use of stone tools by earlier hominids actually predates the emergence of the species homo sapiens and tool use evidently influenced hominid evolution toward social organization, language, and intelligence. So in a real sense the technium created us, we didn't create it. And it continues to dominate our cultural development to this day.

Without technology cultural development is an impossibility. That doesn't mean we shouldn't attempt to retain the perspectives of humanity as development progresses beyond our physical control, however. This is the essence of humanism and the most important application of it's principles is in the technical space.

[Saz]

[gla22]

In the future a larger percentage of the population (10-20%) are going to need to be living off of capital gains and passive income instead of the 1-5% that do so today.

[exploited]

[Winchester]

[Mr.Bill]

Big problem nowadays is the interest rates on saving's sux big time.

I remember the days of %10 interest rates on savings. On $100,000 that's a nice chuck of change, hell you could almost live on the interest.. Now? %.02 or whatever. Even if you saved for your retirement, like I did, you're not getting any help from the interest rates.

[exploited]

10% on savings? Christ.

[Mr.Bill]