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Individually? Who cares. Collectively? Just one more avenue of financial destruction of the middle and lower classes.

Subsidize them with phones or apps that pay them a drip of coins for their attention, maybe even a little real money. Use camera-enabled eye tracking to say, hey, pay attention to …

I typically buy the newest model outright with a trade-in. Curious if this'll be cheaper. Probably not. Might see if this pencils out for work uses - easier to establish and budget…

Broadly, recurring models are profitable right now once you get that agreement set. People don't reason about $100/mo the same that they reason about $1000 upfront, nor do they gen…

It's a low-effort drive-by comment, but I read it as tourists prompting about an issue they don't really know about. People will recognize a glimmer of something they can attach to…

Well, the pathway requires being apprenticed to experts. There are licenses that by law limit to this pathway, but the system breaks in unexpected ways when the experts leave becau…

Could cut demand instead, if we're imagining things.

There's the calorie. Not always a good metric of health, but it's still a signal. $/cal varies meaningfully between home cooking, Costco, Chipotle, fast casual, sit-down, frozen me…

Your comment strongly implies AI is responsible for 50C temps. AI is at the top of an industrialization iceberg going back a century, with uneven countries as beneficiaries and ext…

People would become electricians if it’s sustained, but trades tend to have boom and bust cycles. Additionally, you have significant hurdles to becoming one. You have to qualify to…

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by... Share of global CO2: China 33% US 12% India 8% Russia 5% Japan 3% History didn't start in the last 12 months.

Make sure nobody uses photos with Apple, Google, or Meta either. Sorting photos by people is a convenient feature popping up everywhere.

Are they? Or just creating a demand shock and a monopsony? Amazon has hired so many journeymen electricians from our area that apprenticeship waiting lists have exploded. If you ca…

Anything class, caste, race, gender, etc. clustered can draw fire if they aggravate group harmony and conformity enough to someone. For example, I currently deal with the knife and…

Nobody else bit, so I think it's a shared bitterness that unifies a naive group who challenged someone with real power through HR and lost. Through multitudes of anecdotes, this gr…

We were hearing during the Snowden era about the abuse of NSA systems like XKeyscore and others through what was termed jokingly LOVEINT. Anything that's built will get abused in s…

A similar world is already here. Young men 14-?? already compromise and attempt to extort organizations daily, sometimes cluelessly from western nations, often not. It doesn’t have…

If the point is that cost/calorie has risen too much, it's substantially worse in the cost/calorie sense to eat prepared food out of the home versus cook at home. As an aside, a qu…

It sucks because AI reduces call center costs in many toil tasks very effectively, regardless of whether you want to help or dissuade customers - it's just well-suited to the task …

Get used to it, we have a lot more people that will be coming in and they all need to be taken care of. Unsustainable lifestyles are going to have to give way. We can’t all eat bee…

That disabled non-producers go to the ER less if given an apartment is true doesn't make it empathetic or correct to build enormous unproductive spending networks under the label o…

Looking at cohorts of workers, automation tools like AutoCad reduce the expertise needed and commodify the job, which reduces leverage and thus per capita wages. Consider the taxi …

Automation isn't foreign to the topic. There's some discussion here that refrains from estimating too hard, but I think it's closer to outsourcing's effect: https://www.stlouisfed.…

They didn't make the rising tide analogy, I read it as how much could be captured by labor if we increased leverage. In any case, it doesn't follow that wages grow with earnings. W…

>I'm not saying there is an easy solution, but to simply lay blame on narcissistic CEOs is laughable. I agree. The laptop class is still labor, despite their bit of leverage today.…