We all know that most manufacturing and factory jobs have been taken by robots - decimating blue collar workers. The next wave will be AI taking the jobs of the middle class leaving only the most caring and highly creative jobs.
What will this shit mean for society? Companies will have less need for bodies filling up their offices, so wealth will be concentrated is an extreme way to those that own the companies employing AI.
Will government be forced to redistribute wealth through universal basic income? Capitalism will be dead at that point won't it?
NEETs will continue as usual
just about everyone will be NEET
automation literally kills capitalism
if the proles don't know any money to spend the company that owns 1000 robots extracting oil or what have you has no reason to exist
both the ownership class and the poor will become obsolete
>>2042976
Yes, complete automation is communism by default. Since no one has money to consume the products.
Do you think it's necessary to kill at least one man in your lifetime to have a firmer grasp on the nature of life and death?
>>2042974
No i'd say it's easily simulateable in the mind.
Certainly in a world or lifestyle were killing is regular then it's a necessary social construct (that of not hurting and killing others) to break through out of necessity but just in the pursuit of philosophy I'd sa it's unnecessary.
I wonder how Cain got so yoked up top without training those legs.
oh, definitely
>>2044424
not you again
So are Spaniards really just the rape babies of the Visigoths, who were rape babied by the Moors, whose rape babies were counter rape babied by the Reconquista, who rape babied literally South America but just got rape babied by Napoleon and the Anglos?
Even before the Visigoths the Iberian Celts rape babied the other members of the peninsula until they got rape babied by the Romans.
What the fuck are they? And how did they create an entirely new race of people literally all the way across the world? Was such a thing truly unprecedented?
I can't stop fucking laughing - 10/10
bump
Could the Romanovs ever come back?
There's some monarchist circles in Russia that want that.
>>2042816
Not unless you believe in Zombies and even then their corpses have decayed quite a bit.
>>2042816
The October Revolution is up there with German unification as one of the biggest mistakes in human history
Who was the greatest Russian ruler?
>>2042617
St. Olga of Kiev
>>2042635
You meme but you also speak the truth
>>2042617
Boris Berezovsky
They literally dindu nuffin. Prove me wrong.
>>2042374
Who?
The Land?
The lines?
The map makers?
Be more specific faggot.
>>2042383
the country
>>2042572
The country (third Polish Republic) haven't existed since 1989 so I suppose so.
Good dictators don't exi-
Thats not candle ja-
>>2042361
What good did he do exactly?
um...augustus?
Friendly reminder that you are alive.
how can a cat be so based
>>2042354
Wrong aga-
>>2042354
Shame
While there is no denying the Holocaust, how can we be sure he killed himself in the bunker?
Argentina's lovely this time of year.
>>2042342
The Federal Republic declared him dead in 1956 after an official investigation including hearing 40 witnesses. Heinz Linge's and Otto Günsche's testimonies on the matter are still available on tape.
It was his dummy. The real Hitler got away and became George Soros.
Why aren't you able-bodied young men enlisted in your country's military?
I'm not a cuck
There is a waiting list, still more /int/ "question" than anything else.
>>2042307
>Implying I want to die fighting for the bourgeoisie
Yeh, nah.
What kind did people drink in the ancient world? It seems that in most movies the Romans seem to be drinking red wine, is this true?
What kind of wine would Jesus be drinking? Alexander the great? Cyrus the great? Machiavelli?
What about other places in the world?
Decided to give wine a try and since my autism demands it, I shall be drinking the wine(atleast the same color) of "my" ancestors.
>>2042092
Not sure about colour, but most of the Mediterranean drank wine.
Mead, beer, ciders and ales are more common among snowniggers
Aztecs fermented agave sap to make pulque, and also made alcoholic drinks from cactus fruit.
Beer made from millet in north east asia as well as rice based drinks.
South east africans made beer from lala palm and also sorghum, west africans made some kind of palm wine too
Polynesians drink kava, that isn't actually alcoholic but contains kavalactones that also bind to GABA receptors, like alcohol.
>>2042092
In the ancient Mediterranean world people would mix their red wine in large krater jars with water to massively dilute them. Drinking undiluted wine was the sign of being a barbarian, for which Macedonians were maligned.
>>2042258
Actually, the dilution wasn't that massive. At most you'd get 3:1 water to wine, which is the "pregnant women and sick people" amount. Normal varied from about 1:2 to 1:1, IIRC.
Is anybody here well versed in the history of the Israelites/Samaritans? Lately I've been really intrigued by the latter group. It seems that the Septuagint, Qumran texts, and the many of Vetus Latinae (the old Latin bibles predating the Vulgate) manuscripts agree with the Samaritan bible in many ways. The Samaritan bible also seems to be closer than the Masoretic text to the Hebrew originals, in that they retain a more archaic script, and lack nikkud and other orthographic features which may alter the meaning of a text. That being said, I think the Samaritan version of the 10th commandment is strange, very meticulous and long winded compared to the previous 9, and missing in all save the Samaritan version of Exodus.
So what do you think it is, /his/? Are the Samaritans just a bunch of converted Assyrian pagans as it is written in 2nd Kings, or are they authentic Israelites? Or is it something in between?
I have been attempting to reconcile myself to Christianity for a long time now, and while it has made me a more peaceful person, I have yet to find any true belief. This issue is among the great stepping blocks in this, that Christianity may have inherited the wrong Torah.
>are they authentic Israelites?
I'm nowhere near an expert on Samaritans, but considering what research I have done on them, and what I know about their history from the experience I have with second-temple period history (and archaeological knowledge of periods before it), I'm inclined to think that they are.
The split between Jews and Samaritans really only seems to occur after the captivity, and was mostly caused by small differences (like the right location of the temple) at the time. Considering that the people brought to Babylon were mostly elites, and most common people probably stayed behind, something about the situation seems a little fishy. And what is known archaeologically about how religion was structured before the Babylonian captivity makes things very complicated, since it seems like Jerusalem was not really the exclusive place of worship for all Jews, or even an important one for people outside of Judah (which was kind of a backwater). Because of details like this, it's really not hard to see evidence that the Samaritans probably continued practicing Judaism as they had before conquest, and were Jews until a group of priests who had decided on a bunch of new beliefs and practices while in Babylon showed up one day and said they weren't.
Israelite is probably an incredibly correct label for them, since what they practice might be closer to religion as it existed in the Kingdom of Israel. There are certainly a few scholars who see this is a possibility and look at Samaritan texts to try to find information about what early (or more northern) Judaism was like.
There are alot of theories on who the lost ten tribes of Israel are.
>British Israelism
>Black Hebrews
>Folks all over the world claiming to be descendants of Israel
Lots of WeWuzing going on so it's hard to figure out the truth.
>>2042044
Very interesting, I am no expert on the Babylonian exile, in spite of knowing that most of the exiled Jews were the elites, I never considered class to be a possible explanation for the creation of sects. Would you say that the effect of this was immediate? Because the Maccabes seem to have been embraced by all except the Samaritans (for obvious reasons), in spite of class differences.
Hey /his
Anyone recommend any well done nonfiction on the Western Front? Particularly Verdun, the Marne, or the Somme.
Bump for interest
The Good Soldier Švejk
>>2042529
>nonfiction
Sorry, didn't notice.
Is Europe going the way of Yugoslavia? After reading London for Immigrant suckers, I'm inclined to believe so. Too many similarities to ignore.
Hopefully.
>>2041580
>Too many similarities to ignore.
Like the US needing a military base? Or the like IMF fucking over the economy? Or the German secret service pumping money into independence movements? Or Russia being unable to project power onto their traditional sphere of influence?
>>2042188
So OP didn't think this through?
Why were shields abandoned by knights?
>>2041574
Armor got gud.
>>2041574
They had armor