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Comment by t1234s | original | Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
[−]t1234s · 2026-07-01 Wed 20:14 UTC · link
So you will have low-paid Africans from 3rd world countries tele-operating a robots in rich peoples houses doing chores?
[−]throw310822 · 2026-07-01 Wed 20:19 UTC · link
Exactly. With special safeguards to prevent them from "exfiltrating" any of your property or information with the help of accomplices on the ground, online services, or other clever hacks.
[−]xpct · 2026-07-01 Wed 20:19 UTC · link
Yes, that's the path we're on. It may start with poor eastern Europeans, then gradually move to Africans who tele-operate on eastern European homes.
[−]outside1234 · 2026-07-01 Wed 21:43 UTC · link
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[−]kylehotchkiss · 2026-07-01 Wed 22:01 UTC · link
the way it peeks over the couch in the landing page video :'D
[−]netsharc · 2026-07-02 Thu 00:55 UTC · link
That reminds me of this 90's very very NSFF ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc0BUPRTX2Q

* Not safe for feminists

[−]kyleee · 2026-07-02 Thu 02:10 UTC · link
Is there an add on / subscription / higher tier where it joins in?
[−]prepend · 2026-07-01 Wed 22:18 UTC · link
Better than local servants doing chores.
[−]unselect5917 · 2026-07-01 Wed 22:36 UTC · link
Why is that better?
[−]plasticeagle · 2026-07-01 Wed 23:42 UTC · link
Slavery is better when you don't have to think about it, I suppose.
[−]treis · 2026-07-02 Thu 00:57 UTC · link
It's not slavery when you get paid for it and can quit
[−]pessimizer · 2026-07-02 Thu 04:28 UTC · link
Slaves generally get room and board, and always have the opportunity to quit (although the other option is often death, so slavery is preferable.)

I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm trying to tell you that your criteria are not meaningful, and you're pretending like they're obvious. It's why many US slaves moved directly from slavery into sharecropping for the same masters. The only thing that changed was the paperwork. Now they were renters, who could quit (with no assets and no means to feed themselves.)

[−]unselect5917 · 2026-07-02 Thu 04:45 UTC · link
I once ham-fistedly tried to allude to a similar concept. That slaves were at least "kept" while today's wage slaves have more responsibility, and de facto less freedom due to 'The Matrix' that is our financial and legal system that benefits so few.

We have lords of land. A monetary system based mostly on trickery hidden behind boring math that inexorably erodes the purchasing power of what we receive as compensation for our finite time alive.

So let's just jump to the interesting bit: how do we fix it? Got any ideas?

[−]imtringued · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:43 UTC · link
The solution has always and will always be to respect the laws of thermodynamics and rising entry.

Demurrage [0]

Consider the following: You have a zero lower bound constraint on the interest rate in your economy. The real interest rate falls below zero. What happens? Deflation. Deflation ends up forcing the real interest rate into the positive range even when the nominal equilibrium interest rate would be negative to reach a real interest rate of zero. So in the deflation case, equilibrium simply doesn't happen.

If equilibrium is not possible below zero, then the currency must be operated in the positive interest range. Hence you need eternal inflation to force the interest rates back into positive nominal territory. Since positive nominal interest is still a net inflow of money from consumers (interest is priced into consumer prices) to money holders, the end result is that money flows to those who already have money and way from those who need to fulfill their basic thermodynamic maintenance even in the case where the real interest rate is 0%. Turns out lying about thermodynamics doesn't work in the end, so you get the worst of both worlds: inflation and inequality.

Another way to conceptualize it is that cash is a guaranteed 0% bond and the real interest rate can be negative due to thermodynamics. The government is obligated to pay the difference between the 0% interest rate on money and the real interest rate in the physical economy. It's like the savings that should normally be effected by thermodynamics turn out to be financial garbage and the government obligated itself to buy off the garbage. Of course what happens is that more people produce financial garbage in response to the government's minimum price floor. Eternally rising government debt is a foregone conclusion and it has nothing to do with political incompetence (ok not introducing demurrage or abolishing the ZLB is a form of incompetence, but its a binary matter of doing it).

If you want debt loads to shrink, then borrowers need a form of leverage to reduce the durations of debts. If the contract says the debt must grow over time and holders of money have no duration restriction on their holdings then you would have to be stupid to not expect this output. Note again, its the duration of the positive balances being decoupled from their negative counterpart. The interest payments are just a side effect that accelerates the problem.

Oh and those who obsess over non-money financial assets: Money is a utility and a monopoly. Capital markets have various types/forms of formal agreements based on contracts. People with money would never accept conditions that are worse than the conditions on money, so in the end the capital contracts are just mirroring properties of the money that the original investor is handing over. Debt contracts have fixed terms and payment schedules and liquidation preference/rights upon bankruptcy, whereas most investments do not have that, which is why a risk premium is added on top. An economy without ZLB money but conventional capital market contracts are mostly be fine since thermodynamics/reality are reflected through failure of the investment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_currency

[−]fugaziboutit · 2026-07-02 Thu 01:14 UTC · link
AI = Actually Indenturedservantsfromthirdworldcountries