Good morning! What are you doing today? Perhaps you are lying in bed, reading Wonkette, mentally planning your Halloween costume. Perhaps you are doing laundry. Perhaps you're not even planning on going out for Halloween at all? Perhaps you are planning to stay at home and pick your nose all evening while watching reruns of Columbo.
loved that show...i was still a young when it was in its first airing....even in my budding rockstar guitar hero (in my own mind) young arrogance, i still knew that jim garner was cooler than i would ever be
I was about finished with the introductory bit when I thought "Manna 1.0 is superior to a human manager because it won't sexually harass the employees" and then the author mentioned that in the very next paragraph. Manna also won't be an arrogant, controlling, condescending, demeaning sexist asshole like two bosses I had many years ago, or a delusional psychotic like a boss I had fairly recently, or my most recent boss who was a high-functioning autistic loner who often didn't speak to me or anyone else for weeks on end. But the problem is...who writes the software program for Manna 1.0?? Bad programming could produce results as bad as some human managers.
My second thought, after the thought about eliminating sexual harassment, was that wearing headsets isolates people from other people, which the author also mentioned.
My third thought was "Manna can tell you what to do, but it can't force you to do it." However, most people are sheep and do exactly what they are told to do, especially if a headset tells them to do it. For example, when Steven was fired, he was told to sign certain papers. What if he had simply refused to sign them, taken off his headset and walked out of the building?
People don't have to go along with a system like this. They could simply have refused to work under these conditions in the early days of Manna, and then it would have failed miserably. But people will do almost anything for money, and culture has trained them to accept the commands of authority figures. If this weren't true, then nobody would ever have worked for the Nazi party in Germany and done the things that they did. I am reminded of Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience to authority in the early 60's.
Dick Shawn or GTFO!
https://youtu.be/UxL3A4ln58o
I think we're all bozos on this bus! Or is that bezos?
This makes me hopeful for humanity. Thank you :)
So, loser + loser = looser?
NUSSING!!
"Sir, are you classified as 'human'?" "Negative -- I am a meat popsicle." https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
loved that show...i was still a young when it was in its first airing....even in my budding rockstar guitar hero (in my own mind) young arrogance, i still knew that jim garner was cooler than i would ever be
what other way to do laundry is there?
myron floren and the stomachpumps or GTFO!
I'm not proud of the fucking Bill of Rights right now. It seems to make it easy for haters to hate and for mass murderers to murder.
Dick Shawn rocks!!!
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... Also, too.
Here's an intriguing bit of fiction, addressing one possible way the scenario could develop. Besides, it's a fun read:
"Manna", by Marshall Brain
And it highlights that the reason why America has this shit is because America didn't do this.
I was about finished with the introductory bit when I thought "Manna 1.0 is superior to a human manager because it won't sexually harass the employees" and then the author mentioned that in the very next paragraph. Manna also won't be an arrogant, controlling, condescending, demeaning sexist asshole like two bosses I had many years ago, or a delusional psychotic like a boss I had fairly recently, or my most recent boss who was a high-functioning autistic loner who often didn't speak to me or anyone else for weeks on end. But the problem is...who writes the software program for Manna 1.0?? Bad programming could produce results as bad as some human managers.
My second thought, after the thought about eliminating sexual harassment, was that wearing headsets isolates people from other people, which the author also mentioned.
My third thought was "Manna can tell you what to do, but it can't force you to do it." However, most people are sheep and do exactly what they are told to do, especially if a headset tells them to do it. For example, when Steven was fired, he was told to sign certain papers. What if he had simply refused to sign them, taken off his headset and walked out of the building?
People don't have to go along with a system like this. They could simply have refused to work under these conditions in the early days of Manna, and then it would have failed miserably. But people will do almost anything for money, and culture has trained them to accept the commands of authority figures. If this weren't true, then nobody would ever have worked for the Nazi party in Germany and done the things that they did. I am reminded of Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience to authority in the early 60's.
Their second event in Murfreesboro was cancelled, because the counter-protesters outnumbered them massively.
http://www.tennessean.com/s...