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minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·17 hours agoyou suppose there is a world in which no such machine could ever exist. there isn’t. this is simple a throught experiment. in the real world there will always be poverty, and there are plenty of folks in the real world who tell you they are in poverty, when they are not.
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·14 hours agoOh no, the machine is not poverty. If you think the machine refers to poverty you don’t understand the metaphor.
you suppose there is a world in which no such machine could ever exist.
there isn’t. this is simple a throught experiment.
in the real world there will always be poverty, and there are plenty of folks in the real world who tell you they are in poverty, when they are not.
Oh no, the machine is not poverty. If you think the machine refers to poverty you don’t understand the metaphor.