The main reason I whine to kids when they cannot put their phones down is so that they would put their phones down. I’m not passively complaining about the state of the world, I’m doing what I’m supposed to as a parent and/or older person.
compulsively adding to an enormous pile of wealth far, far beyond anything that they could ever use
Meh. It’s just work, vision and lots of luck that leads to exponential growth. And when you start getting exponential growth to your investment, stopping the process of getting richer and richer would require active work to stop it from happening.
Only in fiction do people become rich by being compulsive about it.
Meloni might not be great, but she’s such a positive surprise when considering where she came from.
Remember that guy before Trump? Dunno about progressive, but he was young.
Could be our team composition that’s the magic sauce: we’re 4 seniors with 20+ years of experience from software development each and just one who’s more like a junior. We could be doing this like artisans of pre-2025 but we’re in a bit of a hurry, being a startup. Also, using AI seems to give us quite a bit more free time.
Remains to be seen, I guess, whether it’s garbage we’re producing. But we have completed in 6 months what I would have assumed would’ve taken 2 years and a bigger team.
I’m absolutely fine with moving 10 times faster than others I was moving before, and people thinking they’re doing better than me at the same time. So I’m not complaining.
I could be wrong, but everything I see in my own worklife suggests that I’m not. The performance increase is immense. I genuinely cannot understand why the results seem to disagree with this. I’ve always been a bit ahead of the curve, so perhaps that’s the reason now as well.
The adult option is prohibiting this shit from children.
Nobody.
Okay, so it’s not going to happen.
They absolutely save you wall-time, huge amounts of it. At least if you’re competent.
I fully hope that EU would be influencing the fuck out of those elections. Can someone say one reason why we shouldn’t be doing that, given how our enemies are 100% doing it.
To answer my own question, I actually have one reason: It would be funny if Putin would lose in Hungary even if we didn’t do any influencing.
Israel should have it’s army taken away like Japan post WW2.
Who would protect them from the inevitable attacks if that happened?
They are being careful. They’re just so much more agile than you.
Where does the money come from that makes everyone richer?
You can only have more if somebody else has less (money concentration)
That’s basic economics, isn’t it. Wealth is increased (not just moved) in several ways in a free market system. But not only in a free market system – in communistic systems the same thing happened as well, only in a different framework. And less efficiently in the end.
Best case capitalism is not “wealth concentrates on the 1%”. Best case capitalism (which in fact has happened in many places around the world) is “everyone gets richer”.
In a similar way, worst case communism has also happened in many places around the world.
See why I prefer one over the other?
Right, and the dumb part now is that nobody in the world expects this to mean shit. Even if it would have been unanimous.
You don’t solve world hunger with UN votes. You solve it with technological and economical advancement, by advancing women’s rights and with better access to contraceptives.
As opposed to Communism, where they extract as much wealth as possible and concentrate it on the 0.1% (the party leadership). Especially when they go to beyond the first generation.
Public healthcare systems are designed to drain the whole society of resources that could have been used more productively elsewhere.
The previous claim is also not exactly true.
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