Good Mines

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by William Gillis

Without (good) mines there would be no sex robots. Think about that.

I see we're back to "all production and trade networks inherently necessitate bad conditions for anyone doing mining" despite it being pretty easy to show even under capitalism well paid safe miners under capitalism barely affecting commodity prices.

This part of the discourse merry-go-round is such a great example of: "gets totally demolished, discarded in favor of pivoting to completely different argument (about all land being stolen), waits a year, re-emerges with confidence for no reason"

What always gets me about this is even if the completely different fallback argument is legitimate that in no way means you get to act like it's a moral outrage to point out the other argument is completely unsustainable. Yet it gets treated like a righteous lie.

It's frankly just exhausting. It's like the "there can be no such thing as green technology" set of wingnuttery about entropy and plainly fallacious arguments. Eternally reemergent & popular because the proponents are looking for justifications for something they already believe.

The "all smartphones require coltan which inherently require the atrocities and destruction of present mines in congo" thing is eternally popular because it can be laundered via public statements that imply such but don't actually claim it and then readers run with it.

Twenty fucking years of debunking these sorts of claims and the tide never turns, new generations confidently make them again and again and the olds pivot back after a minute. Even with eg Graeber and Wengrow systematically trashing cities=hierarchy, folks pivot right back.

I will say I think the people most culpable for this shit are the ones who studiously never outright say what their readers takeaway from their claims. They know what claims and narratives they're implying, contributing to and reinforcing. They just think it's an honorable lie.

Everybody knows this.

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Sex robots? Either the feeling of finishing a long essay is wearing thin, or his ability to write long essays is running short, since this one was very brief. Either way, it seems it can no longer hold a candle to having sex with robots, which is why he dropped it and now everything is on fire, as seen in the picture.

TECHBRO WILLIAM "FUCK YOU I'M A ROBOT" GILLIS HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES. A CYBORG IS ALREADY ON ITS WAY BACK IN TIME TO TERMINATE EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU NAYSAYERS

This guy really does not seem to understand how does economy, markets and mines work.

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