As California’s gubernatorial candidates, tech executives, and mayoral hopefuls continue to contemplate the mass unemployment anticipated from continued advances in artificial intelligence, they would do well to look back at the state’s landmark 1850 legislation as a potential roadmap for handling large-scale unemployment throughout the Golden State.
There is no reason that the bulk of California’s population of 39.5 million could not be arrested and compelled into similar productive service for Silicon Valley’s elite and the state’s top 200 billionaires through a similar piece of progressive legislation.
It is my hope that in the coming years we will all learn to accept governance and protection with equanimity and walk quietly into the peace of a voluntary human extinction.
Signed,
COOL bro
The human commons taken without consent, compensation, or negotiation, processed into proprietary infrastructure owned by a handful of private entities, then sold back to the people who produced it as a service they must pay for… Great long-standing business model.
That’s called colonialism.
Anyways, I forgot to dispose of this little malcontented bit of video content on Dumpster Fires last month but it’s more relevant than ever today.
Enjoy this delightful mini documentary about California’s very first law, the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians.
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