Protest against anti-homeless sitting on sidewalk law tonight at 8:30 on southeast corner of Mill and 6th Street.

Eh, kind of... but kind of not - I don't think we actually do have a job in the military for everybody. But we got a lot of rubbish that ain't gonna put itself in a truck and take itself to the landfill and for people whose medical and mental health needs have been neglected I'm sure we could have folks caring for park areas in town a few hours a week or something.

The business of employment in general becomes its own challenge - military as you suggest is less a matter of actual boots on the ground because we can increasingly fight wars economically in this globally connected market. The military isn't going away of course but I believe they have the luxury of choice in enlistees these days and a sickly 44 year old woman who's been living behind some bushes in Laveen doesn't strike me as the candidate they're looking for.

Outside of military, the natural progression of technology is to eat human labor from the bottom up. People who once spun yarn and manually transcribed books, don't anymore. This continues.

So if you compare a working society to a tandem bicycle with millions of seats and millions of pedals it's plain to see that anyone not pedaling is riding for free. Fuck them, right? The rest of us are sweating our ass off.
But what if you motorize the bicycle and nobody has to pedal anymore, who's lazy now? Who can go fuck themselves? What do we all do now that there's no pedaling to do?

Anyway there's no simple answer to the challenge of employment, there never was and there never will be. As we replace pedals with motors on our tandem bike society we're going to have to choose between a few people pedaling 60 hours a week while others don't at all, or everybody pedaling just 20 hours and enjoying a lot more leisure in between. I'm for that one, personally.

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