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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Robots I'm down with. Do all the work so I can play video games while getting blow jobs from robo-skanks.
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see, the difference between what you're saying and what i'm saying is you're picturing a world where we rule over robots to make our lives better. i'm picturing a world where robots supersede us and carry the torch
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But capitalism is just a necessary quasi-evil. Like I said about ground-level capitalism vs. multi-national corporations: one is great while the other is a danger to be monitored like a hawk. But corporations are still the only thing that makes a functioning economy possible (as opposed to bartering and pure communism). They may be turning the world into their own private ATM, and I can see a day in the far future when a person's affiliation to their all-powerful employer trumps trumps their loyalty to their country,and the Pepsi/Coke wars turning into armed conflicts, but it is what it is.
Countries are already arbitrary concepts based on arbitrary lines on a map, so is it really so odd to have your loyalty lie with the person who signs your checks and provides you with health and dental care? If I had a choice BTW, I'd be a citizen of the Marvel-DC Empire (They'd unite in order to make Justice League/Avengers crossovers and destroy the Confederacy of Independent Comic Publishers [which would be de facto ruled by Image].)
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i don't really see any honest difference between pure capitalism and corporate cronyism. even when businesses adopt state coercion as one of their tools of competition. i think if you honestly look at the idea of 'open competition' and bring it to its logical conclusion then these become imaginary lines in the sand with no real substance.
which is all well and good, if you are ideologically partial to that sort of thing. but i don't see it ending well.