No, it’s still profit. It’s profit that’s reinvested into growing the business. Profit is revenue - operating costs. Scaling is not an operating cost, it’s an investment.

Don’t worry, it’s fiction. It’s not real. No actual planets were harmed in the making of this game.

I think you’re taking the terms too literally. Unskilled labor doesn’t actually mean the jobs require zero skill. It means they can be learned and mastered relatively quickly compared to other jobs. I’ve had many jobs and I’ve done both skilled and unskilled labor.

When I worked in retail I was able to learn the job in a day and master it in a month. For my current job as a software engineer I’ve been learning for over a decade and there’s still a lot I don’t know. The technology changes rapidly and you have to be constantly learning to keep up. I’m significantly better at my job now than I was when I only had 5 years of experience.

That said, ironically it’s people that work in skilled jobs that are generally the biggest advocates of social policies for the good of all. I believe everyone should have all of their basic needs met just for existing, and I would gladly pay more taxes to contribute to that goal.

Did your brain die? Did you get reincarnated? If not, you’re the same you.

That’s only true if people that work in offices reproduce at a higher rate than the general population, and I’m not entirely sure that’s the case. If anything, societal trends have shown that in more developed countries where office work would be more common people are having fewer kids and populations are starting to decline.

True. I was thinking of the selective pressures of nature, but there are absolutely still self imposed selective forces acting on our species.

Natural selection hasn’t really applied to humans for thousands of years. We beat nature when we created civilizations. Which is partly why some of these less than ideal genetic traits go unchecked now in the population.

I think that’s just decorations.

What’s wrong with globalism?

What’s wrong with automation?

You think airlines don’t make money on economy class? That’s the vast majority of their income. Of course they’re going to serve their largest customer base.

It’s the best way to sow division. Put everyone into discrete groups and tell them that the other groups are bad.