I think given the past history it is reasonable to assume the executive branch will ignore the budget and spend and raise money how it wants.

Stop calling it a theory. It's an excuse.

"Chaos" defined as "Only Republican voters can figure out how to vote"

Have you played the Factorissimo mod yet? It's literally abstraction.

Space Age is intentionally a different game. They did not discontinue the original game. Space Age is a mod. You can play it or not, just like you can play Bob's/Angel's or Pyanodon's or not.

But space age is now the focus of development.

Popular mandate is surely 65% as the bare minimum. 51% is not a mandate, it just shows they hate you slightly less than the other guy.

It's exactly what we were doing before the semver hype cycle, but with 0. in front!

Our society is already mostly parasitism-based. Everything in Bullshit Jobs is parasitism and that's the majority of all jobs, plus there's non-job parasitism as well.

some people think that's how humans got so intelligent. actually if you think about it, it's the only way humans could have got so intelligent. brains were our tail feathers for a while.

That depends if there's still a demand for educated people. Doesn't matter how good they are for society - only how much demand there is. If there's no demand, the schools have no reason to change.

We'll call ourselves "Eloi"[1], I guess?

On the one hand, one really can't remove all of humanity from the economy. Humans are what makes the economy matter, and if you cut them all out, they'll just replace the economy with something else, call it "the economy", and move on. ("Butlerian Jihad" pivot, I suppose.)

On the other hand... I'm reminded of dock workers and the advent of container ships. The only way to handle that was to basically pay those workers a living wage for the rest of their lives to ... not work.

So... we have options, I guess!

  [1] In Orson Welles's Time Machine, the eloi were the lazy "child-like" humans not challenged to grow intellectually.