If reproductive labour is done then it has to be paid for somehow. If it is unpaid as you put it, it just means that the worker is paying for it themselves rather than it being paid for by the employer or social infrastructure. If it is unpaid in this sense then it effectively depresses wages, because a (significant) part of the wage is being spent on something that is a necessity in both individual and societal senses.

These kind of right wing parties are contrarian when they are not incumbent. The pragmatism is gonna go out of the window if they get hold of the reigns and come to terms with the reality that Germany is America’s thrall.

I don’t wanna get too deep into the weeds of the AI debate because I frankly have a knee jerk dislike for AI but from what I can skim from hog groomer’s take I agree with their sentiment. A lot of the anti-AI sentiment is based on longing for an idyllic utopia where a cottage industry of creatives exist protected from technological advancements. I think this is an understandable reaction to big tech trying to cause mass unemployment and climate catastrophe for a dollar while bringing down the average level of creative work. But stuff like this prevents sincerely considering if and how AI can be used as tooling by honest creatives to make their work easier or faster or better. This kind of nuance as of now has no place in the mainstream because the mainstream has been poisoned by a multi-billion dollar flood of marketing material from big tech consisting mostly of lies and deception.

Unlikely. Within the EU there is a lot of power imbalance and the periphery gets exploited by the wealthier western nations for cheap labour and resources. National borders facilitate this by being relatively porous for the movement for capital but much more restrictive for the movement of people. There is no incentive for those who hold power within the EU governance to unify as a single country.

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Infrared thing is pure grifter shit. With the ACP angle mixed in they could be feds too.