{"id":95932,"date":"2013-12-03T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T19:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=95932"},"modified":"2013-12-03T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T19:17:59","slug":"jeff-bezos-latest-brainwave-amazon-drones-dream-fascist-collectivists-technocrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/jeff-bezos-latest-brainwave-amazon-drones-dream-fascist-collectivists-technocrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos Latest Brainwave: Amazon Drones Are the Dream of Fascist Collectivists and Technocrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think of the fun that local kids and gun enthusiasts will have with this latest brainwave by internet mogul and neo-nerd vanguard, Jeff Bezos\u2026<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong>Some will see this as \u2018so cool\u2019 technology, while adventurous youths might want to get their kicks hunting down and disabling these little\u00a0flying robots<\/strong>, and gun enthusiasts will enjoy target practice as drones flying overhead \u2014 and who could blame them when their local airspace and roads are being invaded by corporate robots.<\/p>\n

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\nAmazon surveillance?<\/strong>\u00a0Corporate drones could do the work for the NSA by snooping at every window.<\/p>\n

<\/em>No one can deny that the potential for\u00a0\u2018Amazon\u00a0surveillance\u2019<\/em>\u00a0is massive.\u00a0Corporate drones could easily provide a real-time video snooping \u00a0network needed for the\u00a0NSA<\/strong>\u00a0to keep tabs on Americans 24 hours a day. If you think this isn\u2019t already being discussed, and business deals between the government and Amazon haven\u2019t already been calculated \u2014 then you would be very naive.
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\nWhat are the \u2018consumer\u2019 benefits of having a robotic helicopter drone deliver stuff to your door? Apparently, next day delivery is not good enough for yuppie navel gazers \u2014 who are demanding same day delivery service. For those want even better than same day \u2014 to\u00a0consume<\/em>\u00a0their books, DVDs, electronic like they want to consume their Dominos Pizzas in 30 minutes or less, then drones must be the answer,\u00a0right?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The dream of the robotic economy, where everything is rented, and nothing is owned, and where robotic\u00a0Amazon<\/strong>\u00a0drones and\u00a0Google<\/strong>\u00a0cars will take the place of human drivers in cars and vans. These are not dreams anymore, this is your new reality, approaching fast.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s it really all about? Profits, of course. Technocrat bean counters in Seattle and Silicon Valley, having already established a benchmark price for driver-based freight postage and delivery, feel they can undercut that traditional cost and make an additional margin on each item while selling it to their technology-worshiping customers as a cool \u2018value-add\u2019 to their brand\u2019s \u201cclient experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the real red flag (no pun intended): corporate technocrats and fascist collectivists are drooling over the prospect of what they are proudly calling,\u00a0\u201cThe sharing economy of things\u201d.<\/strong>It sounds wonderful to some, like those who literally shake with excitement when they hear the word \u201ccollective\u201d, \u201cCo-op\u201d or \u201ccommune\u201d. Yes, it\u2019s that utopic, Zeitgeist future where no one actually owns anything, but where everything is rented, or loaned. It\u2019s the completion of the rent-seeking economy \u2014 but that renting for us (the proletariat) but total ownership\u00a0over us<\/em>\u00a0by the select cartel of super-corporations and royal-chartered firms \u2014 the only ones who can afford to operate in the big regulator, big government environment\u2026<\/p>\n

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Think of the fun that local kids and gun enthusiasts will have with this latest brainwave by internet mogul and neo-nerd vanguard, Jeff Bezos\u2026 Some will see this as \u2018so cool\u2019 technology, while adventurous youths might want to get their kicks hunting down and disabling these little\u00a0flying robots, and gun enthusiasts will enjoy target practice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}