stasis's journey home
stasis was stuck behind the border of the rival company. the terrain was dead. the trees looked like skeletons. the earth was black. hardened pillow lava crusted over much of the landscape. even now, the landscape looked as if it was steaming.
stasis held his spot firmly and looked to his homing beacon. a beeping on his screen showed that his copilot was close, just beyond the hedge of dead trees and burnt brush.
it was an amazing sight to see. on stasis's island, falidad, there were wild palms and lush vegetation. the land was thick with life and sun. but here, on humbroto, the death and decay had to be brushed away from the face. the moon was always present. the smoke stayed in the clothes, in the hair. stasis was unfamiliar with the land, but he knew he was in humbroto territory.
the humbro were a vile and vicious people. they hunted stasis's people for sport. stasis knew he only had a few minutes before his copilot biggs showed up on the humbro satellites. and then it would be over for both of them. he knew he would never see his family or anyone from falidad again if he didn't get over that hedge to biggs and then get out of humbro. stasis began to sweat at the difficulty of his task. the heat and the pressure caused a drop to fall from his eyebrow. it hit the pillow lava structure with a sizzle and hiss. but the hiss continued until stasis realized it was the humbro. they had sent a team out to find him, and their hisses were growing louder and louder!
adapted from "stasis's journey home" by c. safos
what impact does the location have on stasis?
it makes him thirsty.
it makes him relaxed.
it makes him nervous.
it makes him hungry.

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economic growth now and in the future requires that fewer jobs are created for human workers. this is the desirable inevitable consequence. the automation of the jobs of human workers is the most profitable economically productive activity on the planet.

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what is key is that automation killing all jobs is only a matter of when not if.

the real question is can we get past the now invalid assumption that most humans can work for a decent wage going forward.

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why not have ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines create the vast majority of required economic goods and services as opposed to human workers?

why not have most human workers working less and retiring earlier?

there is much more to life than working forever.

fortunately, automation has been going on for decades and will continue as an irreversible process as ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines permanently replace more costly human workers.

i write this answer for the people that have an open mind and are not living in the past this is what i feel most effectively deals with the tractable issues that automation creates.

the question at hand is how we deal with automation going forward as a society.

automation is only a threat because society has yet to acknowledge automation is happening let alone effectively a having a plan to address it.

a conservative libertarian free market idea where individuals choose what economic goods and services are produced in the free market as the free market supply will respond to free market demand. this is not a centrally planned communist economy.

it is yes as the core issue is an ever increasing majority of human workers   will become permanently unemployed as ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines inevitably replace more expensive human workers with each passing year.

economic growth now and in the future requires that fewer jobs are created for human workers. this is the desirable inevitable consequence. the automation of the jobs of human workers is the most profitable economically productive activity on the planet.

so as a global society we need to have a plan to deal with this inevitable change.

automation has been, is and will always be a friend to human society if human society on a global basis is prepared to deal with the inevitable consequences.

what is key is that automation killing all jobs is only a matter of when not if.

the real question is can we get past the now invalid assumption that most humans can work for a decent wage going forward.

i spent my working career increasing automation and increasing efficiency. this consequently reduces the hours worked by humans while increasing the output economic goods and services at an ever decreasing price.

why not have ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines create the vast majority of required economic goods and services as opposed to human workers?

why not have most human workers working less and retiring earlier?

there is much more to life than working forever.

fortunately, automation has been going on for decades and will continue as an irreversible process as ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines permanently replace more costly human workers.

i write this answer for the people that have an open mind and are not living in the past this is what i feel most effectively deals with the tractable issues that automation creates.

the question at hand is how we deal with automation going forward as a society.

automation is only a threat because society has yet to acknowledge automation is happening let alone effectively a having a plan to address it.

a conservative libertarian free market idea where individuals choose what economic goods and services are produced in the free market as the free market supply will respond to free market demand. this is not a centrally planned communist economy.

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