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As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine. ”
If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine. ”
We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast. ”
We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times. ”
I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops. ”
I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemployment benefits. ”
We're losing touch with ourselves in the technological world, and it is increasingly important to take time out. ”
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions. ”
The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. ”
I believe in collaboration and cooperation. ”