The State Science Institute. Dr Stadler/Dr Fauci

He set a precedent, now it can be done again.

No, wage and price controls.

Musk has noted that most boring labor will be done by robots and people will be relegated to UBI. People are going to have to make meaning of their lives without work. It sounds awful to me.

Silverbacks Hahahahaha! My Brother uses this in frustration as he lives in Brooklyn and it's scary sometimes. The dope smokers have over-run Prospect Park.

Phuk yeah!

First time I read it I felt scared, I saw parallels to our society, that's 13 years ago. I remember the symbolism I felt when the railroad tracks near my house were being pulled up. They used to be double but now only one line. I surmised they were pulling up the rail to sell off the steel.

Going off the gold standard?

wtfhappenedin1971.com

Nixon took us off the gold standard. That was a long reaching shock we are still reeling from today. That shock made people switch life goals from "having a meaningful life" to "being wealthy."

wtfhappenedin1971.com

I have a friend who deeply sees the political war as Good vs Evil, Republicans vs Democrats. He believes Satan walks the Earth, in human form. Perhaps it is George Soros. To play Devil's Advocate, I said, suppose it is Trump? Maybe Trump is a devil designed to help the Democrats win? In the 1990's Trump was interviewed on 20/20 with Stone Philips and he was in line with liberal talking points including National Healthcare. Hillary is a wonderful person, he said. I dunno.

How about boys thinking they're girls?

How does he know he isn't a boy?

How does he know what a girl is?

How does he know there are girls?

How can a boy know anything?

Those of you from my generation may remember that we had a version of 10-289 more than 50 years ago. I had to take a tranquilizer to keep from throwing a brick through the screen when Nixon went on TV to announce it.

"Brandon, uh I mean Mr. Thompson, will not be speaking to you, tonight..."

The media will play this in as discordant a way as possible. It will be a far cry from a Halley concerto!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI5if...

How will the media play this?

AS, even though it was sold as a novel, ISNT a novel. Its whats happening now in SO many ways. I wonder how much longer we wont be subject to a directive 10-289 to protect employees from being fired in favor of robots.

I was so pleased when Reagan fired those air traffic controllers. I said, "If I was the President, I'd fire their a__, too." (not supposed to put profanity over the Internet, though I do use it in person.)

And so were Nixon's wage/price controls in 1971. I felt so betrayed. It was something that I wouldn't have expected from a Republican; a Democrat, yes.

I don't like unions (I've never been in one, though I was invited to join in a couple of plants), and I think the government has given them too much power. However, I don't see that the government has the right to interfere between unions and emplyees in this case. The railroad is private business, right? The union members joined of their own free will, right?
--Now, just in case I guessed wrong on either of these points:the government did take over the railroads some decades ago, (was it in the 1970's?) and consolidated them into something called Amtrak, right? Are the railroads now owned by the government and maintained by the taxpayers?--I confess that I am not really clear on this point. I have ridden on a passenger train a few times between Staunton and Charlottesville, in Virginia.--I don't think that people living on money confiscated from the taxpayers necessarily have the right to force raises in pay in that situation. But I am not quite clear as to what the exact situation is here.

Which is why I think We the People should lean into this a little harder and send it cartwheeling over the edge. All we have to do is...nothing.
Go Galt!

IMHO, the railroads have a legitimate beef: train cars are being looted outside LA and government tells the railroad companies that they have to such up the costs of all that lost inventory - and the messes made by the bandits.

That being said, can you imagine what is going to happen at the ports when they can't move containers onto trains? We're looking at a repeat of last year when producers couldn't get their goods to market. Everyone suffered.

It’s a great time to become a Luddite!

Dunno. Maybe, but Texas isn't big on taking a knee :-) Though I am not fond of Abbott, at least we dodged Beto, Ugh.

It’s still near $4/gal here. Maybe your state has taken a knee and mine still thinks is red?

Yes -- the effort is to create an environment that will welcome a strong man. Take our freedom as long as you can give us food and safety ... even if those are only vague Oprahesque bromides.