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One half of a conversation overheard while waiting in the Ikea self-checkout line: Oh no, this line is for self-checkout... I dont care if its faster I dont want to... well I dont like it... it takes jobs away from people and I dont like that, so I hate using the self-checkout... Um, economic stupidity notwithstanding, if you feel this way then why arent you out swapping chickens with mennonites for hand-whittled log stools, instead of haranguing your boyfriend whos self-pushing a robot-built dolly (so many unemployed dolly-pushers overflowing the soup-kitchens), stacked with robot-flatpacked merchandise which scandalously was not even manufactured in your home town nor home province nor home country nor home continent but merely your home planet (a scandal beyond words), which crossed the ocean in a robot-built shipping container on a diesel-powered boat crewed by zero oarsmen (oh the humanity), merchandise unloaded by computer-controlled robot cranes without any human even pushing a button or clicking a mouse (Bruce Springsteen oughta write a song), merchandise delivered to the store in a single robot-built truck operated by a single driver instead of on the backs of a thousand-camel merchant caravan (what is this world coming to) on roads layed by robot-built earth movers using machine-crushed gravel instead of letting pickaxe-wielding Chinese immigrants have the dignity (so much wailing, so much gnashing of teeth), merchandise which you self-collected from the self-service warehouse denying at least three or four (dozen) Teamsters their rightful due (their children are going hungry because of you, I hope you know that), merchandise which you will soon self-load into your non-chauffered robot-built non-horse-and-buggy (who will think of the saddle and horseshoe makers? Wont somebody think of the saddle and horseshoe makers?!), merchandise you will later self-assemble like total greedy job-stealing assholes when you get to your servant-free home...? How can you live with yourself for destroying so many thousands of jobs? How will you stomach looking yourself in your new machine-cut HÖNEFOSS mirror? How will you sleep at night on your new machine-sewn JÖMNA mattress? You MONSTER. (LiW)
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:25:03 +0000

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