I did notice the org has raised $650K from a variety of sources.
It might be interesting to see the ideological bent of the source of that funding. But I'm guessing it probably isn't oil drillers and Jesus in public school promoters.
If you trace the root cause of why people are in prison I bet in most cases poverty is a large part.
When will we stop and realize keeping people indefinitely in poverty only makes life worse for everyone? The people behind these kind of schemes are morally more criminal than many of those who are incarcerated. Preying on defenseless or down and out members of society for financial gain is about as low as you can go.
The point is we already live in that dystopian future. But it isn't machines running things. It's people fighting over scraps. I firmly believe the machines will do better.
So if we don't widen roads because people might have to move then we get more accidents. Or the city can't grow. Or people sit in traffic for extra hours a day.
People's needs need to be taken into account, yes, that is what it is all about in the end.
But a few people's inconvenience or greed outweighing the general progress is not a long term formula for successful society.
Maybe not all governance is possible by algorithm but much of it is.
For instance, where do we widen a road? Absolutely an algorithmic problem. But I suspect sometimes these types of decisions have more to do with contributions, political favors, relations, etc.
Solving even part of this type of friction in society would go a long way toward improving life for the general population.
Bring on the A.I. I'd rather be governed by a machine than a party boss and a lobbyist any day.
Nope. No exaggeration. I've known probably 30+ farmers in 4 or 5 states (and even worked for a few) and many have attitudes exactly as I state
It's not that they were bad people or unkind (although some are... bordering on abusive), but it's the attitude of inherited big landowner. It absolutely exists.
In retrospect I suppose "spoiled" (in the sense a gulf state prince might be) probably isn't the right term. Every farmer I've known has worked hard and paid attention to their task. But the attitude I speak of is pervasive. The landed nobility and the little people. At least in my experience. And I found it unpleasant.
Partially agree. I do happen to think the cartoon raises a very valid point.
But... having known a lot of farmers they are indeed usually quite well off. And many of them are not aweshucks salt of the earth types people often perceive, but rather more like a sort of spoiled generational semi-duke or noble type thing looking down upon the little non-land owning commoners who they often pay very little and sometimes wantonly abuse.
That being said.. what was the guy thinking? He has to know who financially supports the paper. Maybe he was ready to do something else.
The prevention to this type of problem is probably the same measure needed to fix many forestry problems.
Regular fires.
But now we have homes right up to the forest and no one wants to look at charred land for two decades. So I suppose it's still a no go. The thing about fire though is eventually it probably happens anyway.
No, central economic planning has traditionally been viewed as disastrous.
Doesn't mean it "is" or "always will always be".
In fact, you undoubtedly live to some extent under the auspices of some form of central economic planning right now. Why? Because at some point it was realized complete lack of central economic planning is disastrous.
But you are really arguing against government controlled rent prices no? I tend to probably agree in most cases.