{"id":4947,"date":"2024-06-19T15:33:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T15:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2024-06-19T15:33:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T15:33:46","slug":"just-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2024\/06\/just-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"Just looking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I observe people trying to create businesses to get paid.<\/p>\n<p>Substack, OnlyFans, Patreon, Twitch, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Two things come to mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Nothing works well enough to have one single job.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the end of your mental health.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are no more jobs, y&#8217;all. Everything is maxed out. People try to find new veins of gold, but there&#8217;s none anymore.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve expensed everything. Every single market is absolutely saturated. Music, vegetables, solar panels, mobile pet groomers, online pussy, same. Even scamming is ultra-competitive and not worth it today!<\/p>\n<p>Every market ends up the same: 10% of actors make 90% of profit and the other end which is 90% of us, makes close to nothing. That is completely unsustainable and unhealthy.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone thinks <em>&#8220;yeah but not me though&#8221;<\/em> forgetting that we&#8217;re not living in a vacuum, and that they will be impacted (maybe massively) too, at some point, even if they&#8217;ve been absurdly lucky until now. Just wait for that L.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Let us remember that the automatic machine&#8230; is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. <strong>Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norbert_Wiener\">Norbert Wiener &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are competing with perfect automatic machines, perfect slaves (24\/7 productivity, keeps learning constantly) at all levels, now. We don&#8217;t want to accept the economic consequences of that slave labor, but we&#8217;re in it. And it needs to fucking stop. It doesn\u2019t have to be that way anymore.<\/p>\n<p>When I talk to people about UBI, they get it but feel like that&#8217;s a stretch. <em>Maybe later<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m the only one truly grasping the urgency these days. And it feels crazy because e-very-thing points at it being mandatory since the 2010s and forward. Let\u2019s get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I observe people trying to create businesses to get paid. Substack, OnlyFans, Patreon, Twitch, etc. Two things come to mind: Nothing works well enough to have one single job. And that&#8217;s the end of your mental health. There are no more jobs, y&#8217;all. Everything is maxed out. People try to find new veins of gold, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}