What's wrong with the world

[james_davis_nicoll]

Commies. Definitely Commies.

Comments

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

It's more Etsy-Supremicist isn't it? there's that whole "Petty bourgeois knitters of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but the complex transport network that requires significant government investment to allow modern small scale artisanal economies to actually supply their buyers with their goods!" thread weaving through it all before the UN black helicopters start circling.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

All we need is to implement Vernor Vinge's autonomous hurtling FedEx packages, and Bob's your uncle.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

I'm talking specifically of the text I quoted.

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Not to just supply their buyers with goods - but to obtain their raw materials as well.

I know several of these types, and they're all blissfully unaware of a) just how different the pre-industrial (revolution) world was from their fantasies, and b) just how much they depend on modern conveniences to eke out starvation level wages from their part time 'job'.