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Cake day: September 30th, 2023

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  • This may answer your question. I’ve read that the only way to continue making a profit, aka be better off than the laboring masses, is to use human labor power to produce products/services. Why? Because if a process is automated, the process’s rate of profit will eventually fall to zero. Why? Competition with other businesses that automate will drive the price down as low as it can go (unless of course there’s collusion or a monopoly is allowed to exist).

    Put another way, in order to make money, you need to be able to pay your labor less than the value of whatever they’re producing. If the whole process is automated, there’s no one to pay at all, which is amazing for a hot second, but once another business copies and undercuts you, you need to lower your price to match theirs. Then a third person copies and undercuts you both, and before you know it you’re not making any money because everyone is selling a fraction of a cent above cost.















  • Cuckoo. It’s a Korean brand, probably better than the Japanese brands imo. If you have an H-mart near you they’ll have a couple models on the floor you can look at, but I bought mine on amazon. It’s big, fast, can cook all types of rice with special settings, and everything that comes in contact with the rice pot is removable for cleaning. It’s been going strong for about 5 years and I use it at least once a week.

    You can also cook anything in there. It comes with a steamer tray too for vegetables or sweet potatoes. Apparently mine can cook a whole chicken but I have yet to try that. Oh and it talks too, plus it makes a cute choo-choo train sound to signal it’ll vent steam in a second.