It's skyhooking. Given enough time and enough compute power, we should be able to completely simulate it. It may not be economically feasible, and it may take a long time.
I suspect that we could reorder some class offerings to improve the "throughput" of a math program. I can divide my math education career into before and after the semester I took the course based on Smith/Eggen/St. Andre's "A transition To Advanced Mathematics." Mathematics is proofs, and knowing how to speak them is completely critical. After that course, I could do mathematics much more easily than before. I feel that this book is fundamental to learning mathematics. And the majority of that is being blooded in the art of proof by contradiction and proof by induction.
you really, really should never write things such that task priorities must be of a certain arrangement for the thing to work properly. It's very bad form. Also, from the link "Tasks on the Pathfinder spacecraft were executed as threads with priorities that were assigned in the usual manner reflecting the relative urgency of these tasks." Yeaaaaaugh! "PRIORITIES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!" - Morbo.
Money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil. This is something like being obsessed with money, or reifying the "symbol" of money.
The theory says that workers with low marginal productivity can move up the productivity scale. And largely, that's what's seen, but it's far from perfect.
"Empower" how? Subsidies? If you enact subsidies, then you create an environment in which somebody has the incentive to aggregate the subsidy - in a large business. That's agricultural policy in the US for the last hundred years in a nutshell.
Prices had been pegged very high due to the Ukraine famine in the 1920s, and global trade further collapsed due to Smoot Hawley ( which was immediately countered worldwide ). Redistributing excess produce for free can work well in the face of collapsing prices. It doesn't signal increased production and buffers people getting out of producing without completely destroying prices. Direct food subsidies continued well into the 1960 ( we called them "commodities", and if you were poor, you could get them from ... USDA offices? something like that). This was the predecessor to food stamps ( although it may have run in parallel ).
Mainly healthcare prices, education and some classes of real estate go up. Those are extremely rent-sought markets, not subject to competitive forces. And inflation is now running less than the 2% Fed target ( including the things mentioned above ). The "fatty smokers" are a rhetorical lightning rod, and hardly a threat to your way of life. Meanwhile healthy gym guy runs up a sports medicine bill.... the emphasis on "fitness" began with John Kennedy, designed to increase the fitness of draftees, and has gone mad-cow viral since ( especially when they figured out you'd pay $100 for a $5 pair of shoes in the 1980s... )
Because you don't hire them to nag you, you hire them to finance certain forms of consumption. None of the numbers about even smoking have held up very well over time. "Lifestyle policing" is, like exercise mania, about vanity, not health. The exercise industry is there to pump up sports medicine spending while assuaging the Baby Boomer terror of death. Go look up which is faster rising, sports medicine or oncology. People have enough information about consumption choices to make informed choices. We should leave them be.
But the point is you hire them, they don't own you.
"The servant is the one that takes the money" - Lawrence of Arabia.
Tcl is one heck of a Swiss-army knife solution. The core team is of the first order. The best thing is that it's so easy to use pipes to integrate a 'C'/C++ console mode program and control it via stdin/stdout/sockets. That turns out to be a significant architectural plus - rather than using some MVC C++/Java type library, you get complete seperation of concern. You don't even have to integrate it tightly with 'C' code; just use stdin/stdout and wrap a Tcl package to build a pipe around it.
Tcl might have been too easy. I also recall ESR dismissing it at one point in favor of Python.
Entertainers are liberal because narrative is a very Liberal Art. Data, myth and legend are more on the Conservative axis, although there are mighty quantities of overlap.
I always enjoyed Neil Young because he was always both liberal and conservative and mostly both at the same time. Artists who truly serve the muse will be like that.