HobbitFoot to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agoIf you lost half of your income, but got memories of a a version of yourself living a life of leisure with that part of your income every night, would life be better or worse than it is right now?message-squaremessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down119
arrow-up132arrow-down1message-squareIf you lost half of your income, but got memories of a a version of yourself living a life of leisure with that part of your income every night, would life be better or worse than it is right now?HobbitFoot to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square38fedilink
minus-squareHobbitFoot OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoIt is a reframing of a previous question asked on this sublemmy; the one about the clones. I thought that my interpretation of that initial question would yield a far negative response, and indeed it did.
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoI mean yeah. It reads roughly like “Your life just got way worse. But you can think about it and pretend it’s better. Profit?”
minus-squareHobbitFoot OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoThe other question framed it like “you’ve got an indeterminate number of clone slaves like you” and the responses were more mixed than here.
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoI fail to see how the two questions are related tbh
minus-squareHobbitFoot OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI’m asking from the perspective of the clone.
minus-squareJojo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoExcepting that, presumably, the clone’s labor can still produce income. Not for the clone, obviously, since it said “slaves”, but “you” would wind up making more money, not just splitting what you already have.
It is a reframing of a previous question asked on this sublemmy; the one about the clones.
I thought that my interpretation of that initial question would yield a far negative response, and indeed it did.
I mean yeah. It reads roughly like “Your life just got way worse. But you can think about it and pretend it’s better. Profit?”
The other question framed it like “you’ve got an indeterminate number of clone slaves like you” and the responses were more mixed than here.
I fail to see how the two questions are related tbh
I’m asking from the perspective of the clone.
Excepting that, presumably, the clone’s labor can still produce income. Not for the clone, obviously, since it said “slaves”, but “you” would wind up making more money, not just splitting what you already have.