A union whose joining benefits were:

* A 3D printed 3D printer
* Schematics for printing more printers
* Schematics for printing a perpetual hydroponic food supply
* Help getting that set up
* Some kind of similar solution for power

Would be Legal™, have *insane* collective bargaining power, and would pave the way for a huge societal shift.

I volunteer to work propaganda. "Freedom, Independence, Opportunity", maybe.

@druid you forgot the material needed for the printers. Power will soon be solvable by miniature fusion cores, they're in the testing. But you won't print out of thin air (or get nutrients for the hydroponics)

@piggo the hydroponics issue was made sustainable by someone else, but you're right about the raw printing material.

There's got to be a way.

@druid @piggo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic

Bioplastic filaments for 3d printers aren't there yet, but who knows?

@druid @piggo acutally there is! The answer is corn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic#Polylactic_acid_(PLA)

But how does one use hydroponics for corn?!

@dyske @druid @piggo isn't nylon basically a protein? You could prob engineer some bactria to produce it or something similar

@snacks @dyske @piggo Isn't that how we already make it in some places? Maybe I'm talking shit.

Failing that, would silk suffice? Isn't its scarcity artificial? It's made by fucking worms.

@druid @dyske @snacks @piggo i think the worms make so little of it you need a ridiculous amount of them

@waifu @piggo @snacks @dyske Sounds like the kind of Minecraft problem you solve by building a gigantic hall full of them

@druid @waifu @dyske @piggo @snacks Maintenance time also matters, especially if you're billing yourself as a union and this as an 'indefinite strike tool.'
It's not much use in giving you leverage at your job if you can't hold one cause you're spending all your time maintaining your hydroponics system.
Mainting a hall of silk worms sounds time consuming.

@amy @dyske @piggo @snacks @waifu That's the point, ultimately. By the time you're manufacturing your own CLOTHING as well as power, food, water, why even go back to work?

@druid @amy @waifu @snacks @dyske @piggo Bro, while what you are describing sounds awesome, you are extremely naive. Life isn't a survival game.

@matrix @piggo @dyske @snacks @waifu @amy @druid "life isn't a survival game"

it is, but it doesn't have to be, it actually seems more like you are the one wishing for it to be a desperate crawl

@Majkatsu @amy @waifu @snacks @dyske @piggo @druid If it is then let's compare it to one. Minecraft. Look at how many hours you have in your playthrough (tech modpack to be more closer to real life), divide it up into days (one Minecraft day is ten minutes, one night is too) and think about how much percent of the Minecraft day something took and how many days it too.