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WCDT Strips 3386 - 3390 (2nd - 6th January 2017)

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hedgie:
I'm sure they could do it legally if they followed proper safety standards, got permits, and paid tax.  Wouldn't be much difference between that and what us much more mortal humans do when properly sanctioned.

gprimr1:
Faye has no job, no money, no assets, how the hell is she going to get a loan? Let alone a loan big enough to buy something like the skate park.

She needs to calm down.

Morituri:
I don't think she could get a loan to buy the skatepark.  At least not by herself.  But she might be able to sell some investors on it.  After all, it's a good risk; It's an already-established business, with an established clientele and employees, and if it goes legit, then shares of it become a legitimate financial asset.  They could do an IPO and sell shares to raise money.

Also, Station might find that it's a worthwhile thing, and Station has more money than God.    So the IPO might wind up with him as a majority shareholder. 

OTOH, she could get enough loan to rent a storage space on her own stick. It isn't that much money, and she (& Bubbles & Jeremy)  are fully equipped (Faye was using her own tools) and fully competent to do robot repairs.  So I see a small repair business, starting with an already-established clientele (the arena fighters who know already that they're good), as a possibility.

A small repair shop could develop in a bunch of directions.  As a repairs-for-the-disadvantaged charity suitable for state sponsorship and/or eligible for tax-free donations, or as a good honest repairs-for-customers-paying-a-reasonable-fee business.

Either way, they might wind up as contractors doing cheap repairs for the parole department, or take state subsidies to provide 'halfway house' employment for parolees, or both. 

There are a lot of possibilities, depending on how they handle it.  There are a lot of different ways to go legit.

jheartney:

--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 01 Jan 2017, 17:14 ---Faye has no job, no money, no assets, how the hell is she going to get a loan? Let alone a loan big enough to buy something like the skate park.

She needs to calm down.

--- End quote ---
if she got the loan, how would she pay it back? The skate park needs to continue, or there's no money for anything.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea of "disadvantaged AIs." I should think that an AI, any AI, represents a significant investment of resources. Further, their physical needs are probably less than a human's (current to recharge and a dry place to do it; their medical needs can apparently be filled by a self-taught metalworker). Someone ought to be willing to employ them, because if there was no need for them, why would they have been created? Unlike humans, there's no sex drive pushing for their conception, and baby AIs aren't cute like babies, and they don't have biological parents programmed to love and raise them. So before an AI gets made, shouldn't there be someone paying for it with a purpose they're meant to fulfill? Shouldn't most AIs have a built-in employment situation?

Method of Madness:
Yeah, there's no way I'm not fixing that y. (To anyone who looks later, the title of the thread originally contained "JanuarY".)

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