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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us |
| Date | 2019-01-24 09:52 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <gatg6aF1rvfU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2019-01-24, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
> Ronny Biggs <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
>
>> On 21/01/2019 18:59, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>
>>> I've hated crowds ever since then and regard overpopulation as one of
>>> the greatest sins imaginable.
>>
>> So what should we do? Should we start culling all the homeless people,
>> then all jobless people, then people who are a burden on the society
>> such as disabled people and people on welfare, then we should let people
>> in disaster zones to die and stop aid agencies to go to their
>> assistance. Is this what you are suggesting?
>
> We can just about restore the balance of ecology, the bioshpere and
> so on -- in other words we can live within our means instead of an
> unpayable overdraft, as we've been doing for the past half century
> -- if we exterminate the two hundred million most extravagant and
> wasteful of our species.
>
> -- John Brunner, _The Sheep Look Up_, 1972
>
> [See also: _Stand on Zanzibar_ and _Shockwave Rider_, same author.]
Excellent trilogy. SoZ is one of my favourite SF books, ever.
And I suspect it would be rather more than 200,000,000. And there is isn't
room on Zanzibar any more.
>
>> We need to start somewhere to reduce the global population. What is
>> your solution smart chap?
>
> Well, nearly 50 years further along, we might have to raise that to
> somewhere between 350 and 500 million "most extravagant and wasteful".
Precisely.
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Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 24th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3185
~ Stercus accidit ~
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Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Dario Niedermann <dario@darioniedermann.it> - 2019-01-21 14:09 +0100
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-01-21 18:18 +0300
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-21 16:50 +0000
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-01-21 20:21 +0300
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-21 17:37 +0000
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2019-01-21 10:59 -0800
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-01-22 17:05 +0300
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Ronny Biggs <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-22 22:59 -0400
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-01-22 23:06 -0500
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2019-01-23 12:16 -0600
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-23 18:47 +0000
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Filip454 <filip454.grupydyskusyjne@hotmail.com> - 2019-01-24 03:38 +0100
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-24 09:52 +0000
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Filip454 <filip454.grupydyskusyjne@hotmail.com> - 2019-01-24 03:41 +0100
[OT] overpopulation Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-01-23 04:07 +0000
Re: [OT] overpopulation gage@whereever.com - 2019-01-23 23:48 -0600
Re: [OT] overpopulation gage@whereever.com - 2019-01-24 00:03 -0600
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-23 10:21 +0000
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-24 09:50 +0000
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-01-23 21:25 +0300
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-23 18:45 +0000
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-01-23 21:36 -0400
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-24 09:52 +0000
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2019-01-23 20:48 -0800
Re: Surveillance capitalism: the goal is to automate us Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-01-21 17:03 -0500
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