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That's how subsistence farmers were dragged into the market economy. Colonists liked doing that.

But this was also done in the past for military campaigns. Provisioning an army is hard work. It's easier if soldiers can buy stuff with gold along the way and the king demanding the gold back from the population. It's the more realistic way currency use formed instead of the "suppose we want to barter" story. Villagers not going along with the program got torched.

You know how it goes. Fire people and assume AI is better next quarter. If it doesn't work out, it's also a problem for next quarter.

Yeah, it usually means overstaffed with too expensive workers.

They assume AI is only to get much better and will be able to replace higher expertise levels every year until everybody developer is replaced.

That means they'll gerrymander that 40% to the top, block votes from as many as they can from the 60% and ICE the people that would decrease that 40% even a bit.

This one is real?

Roman empire fell apart over a few hundred years. USA is speed running this, so it'll be a tad more stressful.

pedofiles

They're called the Epstein class now

They tried in Russia and electronic payment terminals, that use a VPN, stopped working.

There are YouTube channels with letting the youth try to figure out old tech.

And have the right skin tone, religion, political alignment and sexual preferences. (*)

*Additional conditions may be added at a later date

Now watch the flat earth documentary.