Then spend all their retirement on medical care for their broken body.
We treat each other like animals no matter the job.
Moral relativism has never gone anywhere. It was black people, and women, now it’s just poor people.
Still flogging Anglo gibberish law when it’s clear it’s all just biological need being held hostage by political corruption empowering cliques like a fucking high school
This is the world realizing there’s little novel data inside these noisy black boxes; just noisy people easily distracted by screens like the TV generation.
Investors want to cash out before things implode, if they can.
Jack wants people connected and gets that’s all it’s about. The attention economy is dying off as we learn what it means for privacy. The big social brands are going to fade like Best Buy and circuit city as kids grow up never being allowed on Twitter and Facebook (mine aren’t and won’t be allowed to until they’re 18); we have Plex and that’s all I’m going to say about that :)
Facebook -> Meta started me thinking this way and this has me even more convinced.
The daily use cases of our gadgets is well established emotionally. The honeymoon is over.
In a universe with no center, why is utilitarianism of ephemera a desired goal?
What immediate value did Newton offer given the technology of his time?
A data set of our preferred language constructs could help us eliminate cognitive redundancy, CRUD app development, and other well known software tasks.
Why let millions of meatbags generate syntactic art on expensive, complex, environmentally catastrophic machines for the fun of it if utility is your concern? Eat shrooms and scrawl in the dirt.
Using the same environmental concern logic, the carbon footprint of traditional banking, which still hauls around, protects, and produces real currency, plastic cards, and financing for every other destructive activity… rather dwarfs Bitcoin.
Where are all your posts pointedly taking apart the system you are surely heavily invested in?
You’re part of the problem by being part of human society. Collective economic inaction must be part of the solution.
Producing less superfluous junk at scale must be part of the solution. That means our individual narratives around value stores must change; traditional banking scales even worse than Bitcoin.
Good news; when the economy implodes there will be no financial costs, but you’ll have skills.
5% of the public hunts. My guess is, should society collapse, there will be plenty of work cleaning up the bodies as millions go nuts in shock and kill themselves at home before a civil war can get off the ground.
More optimistically it’ll be like 9/11, NY blackouts; shock, awe, but people settle down and figure it out.
Who knows, maybe this is all embedded paranoia from the Cold War era and complete social collapse is impossible.
Local urban areas will surely clamp down and secure infra. Going it alone in the woods seems like a fine recipe for just putting the gun in your own mouth eventually.
Domain squatting, and all the security effort of protecting now worthless code IP, meta data analysis for private use, profit being funneled to fewer and fewer people are all outcomes of web 1 & 2
Take off the rose colored glasses; it’s all been a speculative game. That’s the root node of our economics at this point.
At the end of the day it’s electron state in a box of metal and plastic. It’s been generating “value” for owners distracting people from their lives.
I’ve been online since the 80s; people were complaining about web 1 ruining usenet, irc, and everything else.
No, human behavior enables things like the Laffer curve to be defined and held up like a shiny bauble by a politically motivated half-wit.
Laffer has never had and never will have anything to do with pre-existing human behavior itself.
He never defined any of the math objects he used. As far as I can see he’s not invented any net new value, he translated English economic babble into math. It’s elementary abstraction by today’s standards. Since most people could barely balance a checkbook in his day, he’s a genius for life.
It’s like taking a child’s drawing of a tree and acting like the child gave life to the tree.
It’s ridiculous to foist prestige on idiots wielding arithmetic. Look at the misogynistic, misandrist, classist, racist, culture our elders grew up in and chuck their prestige in the bin; they’re human like everyone else.
You want to put a number value on others? Here’s yours; 1 of 7 billion+.
Rich people are rich because everyone else worries if we tax them, everyone can’t magically become rich. They’re aren’t actually smarter, stronger, better; it’s just propaganda; aka today as data science.
I worked there. Engineering is vastly different than anywhere else; it’s about Oracle; not open source, not simplifying software and technology… it truly is about daddy Larry being rich enough to afford a fighter jet so he has enough to trickle down on the plebs.
Their traditional business side hates the cloud side because it’s taking over priority; legacy process is foisted on greenfield effort. It’s a shit show culture by MBAs for MBAs.
There is no technical competition or innovation coming out of there, just bean counters looking to collect beans.
Rustling Jimmie’s non-violently to disrupt the sensibilities of utilitarians like yourself.
Because like you said, progress is happening anyway. Let’s disabuse the right they can stop it or channel it with their high minded stories of economics (basically just watching what happens naturally), Protestant work ethic, and gun toting.
Those voices truly do mean little to the economy they rely on. 5% of people in the US hunt. If the right wants rugged individualism, there’s plenty of room in Antarctica.
Either side is big government authoritarian, that’s without question. I’d prefer the output be support human life and stability, not the dimwits who ignore their dependence on this society while calling for freedom from it.
While I get the sentiment, western working hours are the lowest they’ve been in the industrial era, but we sure have a lot of nice tech. Your experience is subsidized by nation state brutality.
Spare us the high minded criticism and go do something about your own cognitive dissonance.
We treat each other like animals no matter the job.
Moral relativism has never gone anywhere. It was black people, and women, now it’s just poor people.
Still flogging Anglo gibberish law when it’s clear it’s all just biological need being held hostage by political corruption empowering cliques like a fucking high school