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gabriel_laddel: Also, I /don't like/
the macbook retina, fancy as it may be
gabriel_laddel: Eh, perhaps I'm strange, but
these
things don't
tickle me in
the right places. Mountains of coke? Fun, surely, but it gets boring after a while...
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: "why funded and by whom ?" << I really can't figure
this out, it's like
the relationship
the USG club have with
the Saudis. *mumble mumble* ... little boys... *mumble mumble*
gabriel_laddel: I don't
think it's a scam exactly... what
they want is for nothing
to change, and he provided it. :/
gabriel_laddel: "Where do you want
to go
today?"
To a Sharashka or garden-variety GULAG? Largely a matter of
taste (and luck.)
gabriel_laddel: I hope you like carving
toys (or demunging databases) for Mr. Altman and his ilk. Because
that is what we'll both be doing soon enough. If permitted
to live...
gabriel_laddel: Has anyone considered
the possibility
that
the living dead are kept around, safe from
the Soilent Green pot, encouraged
to be fruitful and multiply, etc. precisely
to help make arbeit macht frei ever so slowly more palatable
to
the remaining humans?
gabriel_laddel: Could we instead ask for concertina wire, mine fields, and automatic
turrets separating
the human beings - with
their robotic plenty - from
the zombies, with
their decay and hunger for flesh?
gabriel_laddel: Who gets
to become a "delicate aristocrat," dodging carving duty, and why?
gabriel_laddel: In an "arbeit macht frei" world, will you - in particular - be permitted
to busy yourself with writing unorthodox operating systems - or, for
that matter, articles like
this one? Or with carving wooden
toys?
gabriel_laddel: I
think
this "Stanislav Datskovskiy" guy has
the right idea
though...
gabriel_laddel: I've listened
to my friends
talk about
their sibling's lives at google.
They make (nominally) lots of money, but it all is consumed by
the costs of living.
assbot: Logged on 06-04-2014 05:30:22; asciilifeform: one man's 300k is not
the same as another's
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 05:31:28; asciilifeform: 'Astolphe de Custine was brought up for a
time by a faithful servant, living in penury with her in
the only room of
the Custine home
that had not been looted and sealed off by Jacobin zealots and
thieves.'
gabriel_laddel: Incidentally, a friend of mine from Romania
told me a story about what happened
to his family's house during
the communist revolution: It was seized, concrete was poured on
the (expensive hardwood!) floors after it was stripped of any valuables.
ben_vulpes: i'm sure
there's some fatalistic reasoning against buying property and renting it out in
this scenario
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 04:09:15; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo:
the
town where i live is being slowly converted into gigantic sov-style communal flats (officially, 'student housing', in practice -
they will live
their whole lives
therein)
ben_vulpes: does
the political power du jour really go so far as
to entirely alienate
the rentiers?
mircea_popescu: btw i sent
the archive.today guy a note, if he shows up him
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 23:38:48; ben_vulpes: i'm interested in
the survivor's
tale.
taking notes on how
to get
the least fucked.
mircea_popescu: you ain't bought a license
to kill bookies, and
today i ain't sellin' any.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 23:24:13; asciilifeform:
though folks who differ from above portrait solely in
the have-money part (e.g. shrem) are also a favourite prey animal
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> probably 'name own price' << yeah, right. usg would rather have google
translated material by some crafty armenian at "pay grade"
than pay what competent guy asks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can read russian poetry a lot better once someone's conveniently done 99% of
the work, found
the equivalents, set out
the rhyming scheme etc
ben_vulpes: i'm interested in
the survivor's
tale.
taking notes on how
to get
the least fucked.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: is orlov's account of
the soviet collapse halfway accurate?
ben_vulpes: tax credits for sales
to favorite sons.
ben_vulpes: why go
through
the
trouble of confiscating, when again, funds for disbursement
to
the 'blessed poor' can be routed
to
the homebuilders?
ben_vulpes: even
then,
there's miles of pressed shitboard
that can yet be erected.
ben_vulpes: confiscation isn't likely
to compare with
taxes pulled in from payrol..
ben_vulpes: politically useful. see
the routine audits of whoever's not in power.