Year of the Sloth

[El_Machinae]

True dat. On the other hand, food barons will be sitting on a mountain of food but due to consumers lack of assets, the food barons will have no one to sell it to.

Naw, that would be wasteful. Why would I allow my hundreds of acres to be wasted creating corn that no one can buy? I'm going to grow a lush jungle, climate controlled, and have a series of hiking trails made where my fellow friends can enjoy dinosaur watching.

In other words, I'll convert the assets into something I want. Because the unemployed will have nothing that I want.

 

[Farm Boy]

...hundreds?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

...hundreds?

Not everyone is a farmer. I'd have let that pass.

 

[El_Machinae]

...hundreds?

Sure. Something I could stroll through, but not really break a sweat if I didn't want to.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Sure. Something I could stroll through, but not really break a sweat if I didn't want to.

His point was that it takes a lot more than hundreds of acres to qualify as a "food baron." So even if the food baron converts hundreds of his acres to a dinosaur park there's still a lot going to waste.

Which is fine, because I'll be looking for a place to squat.

 

[El_Machinae]

Oh, I'm not a food baron. I bought some of his land when he was foreclosed on after having no ability to farm corn profitably any longer.

He's currently homeless, I think. Or else I've GPS-tagged him so that we could watch him flee the T-Rex. Not sure which. Who has time to check such things? Not I.

Message edited by Jarvis 2.0: The person in question was eaten four days ago.

 

[Farm Boy]

Sharecroppers produce more than they eat, protect from intruders, and grow daughters. Do you think the state park route is more likely? I'm not sure.

 

[El_Machinae]

Sharecroppers produce more than they eat, protect from intruders, and grow daughters. Do you think the state park route is more likely? I'm not sure.

2.5 of those will be services provided by my robots. At that point, the sharecropper will have nothing that I want

 

[Farm Boy]

I'm leaning that way too.

 

[El_Machinae]

In summary, I'm a techno optimist. But I think that our ability to screw up our potential Utopia is inappropriately likely. There are various potential political and economic interventions that will allow us to have our cake and eat it too, but I strongly suspect they will not be politically available until we are well into the crisis.

 

[Zkribbler]

In summary, I'm a techno optimist. But I think that our ability to screw up our potential Utopia is inappropriately likely. There are various potential political and economic interventions that will allow us to have our cake and eat it too, but I strongly suspect they will not be politically available until we are well into the crisis.

Stop being right!

 

[HoloDoc]

Sharecroppers produce more than they eat, protect from intruders, and grow daughters. Do you think the state park route is more likely? I'm not sure.

Can I swap one of those dinosaurs for a few daughters?

 

[Farm Boy]

If you own a dinosaur, my guess would be yes, functionally.

 

[HoloDoc]

If you own a dinosaur, my guess would be yes, functionally.

Yet another reason to prioritise dinosaur creation over social justice programs or effective economic management. The system works.

 

[Lexicus]

You can already have a dinosaur as a pet if'n you were so inclined.

 

[HoloDoc]

You can already have a dinosaur as a pet if'n you were so inclined.

My last pet dinosaur ate my family. But I would like another someday.

 

[Farm Boy]

Spoiler this one won't eat you :

Spoiler this one will :

can you blame it?

 

[Lexicus]

Did the dinosaur look like this? (also are you an insect?)

 

[HoloDoc]

I'm Australian. Those dinosaurs are tasty, and can be found almost everywhere in this country. You suffocate them and stuff them with corn.

 

[Farm Boy]

How much meat can you really get off a parakeet? I could probably clear a dozen in a sitting?

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