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Bear Ribs
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Aircraft anime Waifus came long before handguns and old ships. You don't see them now because it's all been done already and that part of the mecha musume genre is stale. Strike Witches was well over a decade ago.
Agent23
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Um, strike withces was not about aircraft waifus the way stuff like KanCole and AL are about shipgirls.
There we had girls wearing silly socks that let them fly, I also think most of them were kemenomimi.
Bear Ribs
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The girls were all reincarnated WW2 Ace Pilots that used an animal spirit to fuse with their planes. It's considered the progenitor of all the X-machine girl anime.
Agent23
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Could never get into it, tbh.
Yinko
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Missing South-Rhodesia too (AKA Rhodesia, since North Rhodesia immediately folded and became Zambia without a fight).
South korea has done pretty damned well for itself.
Yinko
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Supposedly, the original ideal of communism was that industrial automation would make it so that everyone would be able to live an ideal urbanized lifestyle, then everyone would do art and poetry and not have to work to survive. Which, might not have even been all that unrealistic, except of course that new products are made, standards of living accelerate, international competition happens. Advances in administration and production lead to standards having a higher peak rather than the slope of those standards being made gentler.
Simonbob
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Nope.
Until we can perfect AI, and perhaps even then, somebody has to run the machines. Somebody has to maintain them, fix issues as they come up, etc.
There's a lot of tech, but more often than not, a person is so much more flexable. For example, servicing a car isn't as simple as it looks.
Doomsought
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Still won't work. As soon as you get past basic sustinance, fulfilling people's wants and needs quickly approach a universal halting machine.
Yinko
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Yeah, but Marxism was dreamed up during the height of the industrial revolution. Is work like that really "labor" when the average worker is doing 16-20 hour days and risking their lives all the time? In these utopian scenarios there are always contextual issues and caveats.
There are no laborers in heaven, yet heaven is staffed by angels.
Simonbob
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I don't disagree with you, but not the point I was making.
There's a reason why we still have couriers. Why we still have builder's labourers. We have had mobile lifting devices for decades, and the tech to automate it, for over 20 years. It's insanely rare.
That's because it can't deal with anything but the most simplified. The moment something outside it's programing comes up. it don't work. There are automated ports in China, and as long as they deal in fully labled standard containers, and only fully labled standard containers, it works. Until it doesn't, then somebody who understands it has to find the problem, and fix it.
People are flexable, tech isn't. That might change, but until it does, people rule.
Yinko
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Well there's your problem.
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Skallagrim
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You know what people never ask for?
This forum needs some Francis Fukuyama memes... before it's too late and it all ends.
This forum needs some Francis Fukuyama memes... before it's too late and it all ends.
