[–] 29 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Fountain soda costs a few pennies per gallon, the lost earnings of which would ordinarily be counted as small beans compared to the wages saved by reducing the bodies you need to pay to run your restaurant. The pandemic taught companies though that you don't need a body for every job, you need only as many as it takes to keep the door unlocked. The single person whipped and frantic doing the jobs of eight people will just have to work harder and maybe next year they'll get a fifteen cent raise

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Part of what creates in me so much faith in communism is my profession vs my interests.

    I am an engineer. If I didn't need to sell my labor I would be an engineer who solves problems and creates progress. Since I live in America, I don't.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Survivor of a TBI checking in.

    I thought about this a bit actually in my earlyish recovery, though I never did confirm my thoughts with any doctors who might know more about the mechanics I was interpreting me perceptions of.

    In summary, I don't think it would help (for those with injuries exactly identical to mine*). The problem as I constructed it in my mind, was;

    1. A problem with my ability to interpret balance from my senses.
    • I could still sense all the things I could pre-injury, but the signals would travel down the wires of my body with different kinds of "noise" than my brain had learned to adapt to for the first 20+ years of my life.
    1. A problem with my ability to control the fine-motor aspects of all my balance-affecting body parts.
    • The relative position and momentum of every moving and not-moving part of your body contribute to your overall "state" of balance. Now my control to each part of my body had (similar to the sensing syste's "wires") different levels of noise to adapt for than it has taught itself to deal with so far.

    I think a system like the Exoskeleton referred to here would probably fix or at least greatly reduce the second problem, but the first problem would require, at the very least, a "processor" that could replace the thing that determines my balance from all my various senses (my brain, at least one part of it).

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