“When was the last time you were in a grocery store where there cashiers at all the registers?”

Each store has a somewhat different interface and different quirks. And once they are learned well enough to be efficient it’s time for a new set of machines with a new interface. If the old ones are kept around the malfunctions achieve the same end.

Who’s going to work to pay for the UBI?

Back in the 1980s when I was bagging groceries at a major local chain of large grocery stores the cashiers were _FAST_. Scanning items so quick it took practice and effort to bag as fast they could send the items through. Today I find no matter the store, they are slow to very slow. With or without someone bagging…

The “poor” in the USA by and large have luxuries from televisions to automobiles to air conditioning and beyond, and you’re going to tell me it’s not true they are richer than most people people on the planet?

You’re making yourself quite the example of the point I raised. You are doing all you can to avoid admitting that what you endorse, the scientific management of society by a small group of experts is exactly what you rail against. You praise what the industrialists did through the state to scientifically manage…

Again, I simply gave you a brief version of how the US system was created and what it was created for. This obviously disturbs you. You have to respond the way you do so as not to accept the history. Again I have not advocated any alternative, I have merely pointed out from where the present US came and what it was…

You’re projecting. You’re plugging your ears not wanting to hear the history that shows that you are advocating for the very system the wealthy industrialists of Henry Ford’s time wanted.

You’re being non-responsive. I did not advocate anything. I told you the history in a brief form. You don’t want to accept it because you’re invested in an illusion and reality would dictate a different course of action than the one you advocate.

I didn’t insult you. I didn’t make a strawman.

Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit apparently. In the USA medical care was made into a government protected cartel over many years starting in 1910 with the Flexner report. Your dear government made it that way intentionally. With each additional meddling it insures more of americans’ wealth flows to that…

I understand the role of government quite well, I just don’t believe in your fairy tale version of it any longer. That’s what happens when a person grows up, he gives up fairy tales.

Awww... turtleface can’t deal with his own cognitive dissonance.

When late 19th century and early 20th century industrialists did things privately people despise them, when they did them through government they cheer them. Go look up what the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, and…

You like the real world where you complain about Henry Ford’s views but then cheer the same when implemented by government.

Today’s world has a government managed economy operating on fascist principles (like those of Nazi Germany), people managed as human resources beat up on by government employees (cops) when they…

Spare me the grade school lessons, I had them just like you did. The difference is I went beyond them.

No matter where I go in the world today the US Fedgov claims ownership of me unless I go through its process and pay its fees to be free of it once another government accepts me on its plantation. Henry Ford had no…

Now we have PhD’s saying how society should be managed and the goons have government issued badges. A man could simply choose not to deal with Henry Ford.

The poorest 20% of the USA are richer than just about everyone who has ever lived. They are still richer than most everyone living on the planet today. The benefits afforded the poorest in some countries in Europe today come in exchange for being managed. Also keep in mind that these benefits to the poorest in europe…

First, there many sort of corporations. A condo association or HOA is a corporation. Thus the idea that all corporations must seek a profit immediately fails without making vital distictions.

Second, many people in government and business supported fascism in the 1930s. Today both so called US political parties…

There is no hope for a small light duty truck because they have been legislated into a penalty box.

It is quite easy to get a jury that can be convinced that sliding through the house wouldn’t have seriously injured or killed the driver or the occupants of the house. That it was just the property damage that was being spared at injury to a child. (never mind his actual age) People are simply emotionally manipulated…