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>So? So much for humanity benefitting from technology. Instead of our workdays becoming fewer and shorter, a tiny number of people who don’t work at all will become richer while ou…

That doesn’t change the fact that open source users are the welfare queens of our times. As long as open source software exists, lazy degenerates with no skin in the game will feel…

Open source users are the welfare queens of our times. As long as open source software exists, these lazy degenerates with no skin in the game will feel entitled to keep demanding …

Tornado shelters are not exactly a novel idea.

As I said, a “free-market” solution isn’t even an option.

My entire argument is based on the fact that a free-market healthcare system is not even an option. Frankly, a free-market economy of any sort is a utopian fantasy. Healthcare is j…

That’s right. But the employer-dependent health insurance arrangement in the U.S. was implemented as an alternative to the various political dynamics that regulate most countries’ …

Whether it’s hospitals, hosipital owners, doctors, or other healthcare industry benefactors, someone is making a killing beyond just the insurance companies. Ballooning administrat…

Especially since no amount of technology has lessened the amount that most of us (especially those doing these jobs being complained about) still have to work to earn a living.

See: Owning huge amounts of land is uniquely antisocial . The point here is to maintain a society and some things must come first, namely material things which paintings are not. O…

Anyone know if Nouveau can operate in integrated-only mode? And if so how can that be confirmed? The only reason I use Nvidia drivers is to use integrated-only graphics mode.

marginalized?

The only construction project Google ever did in my city was use ancient (loud as hell) equipment to rip these big grooves down mile after mile of perfectly good neighborhood stree…

This just isn’t true. Every social species found in the wild relies on brutal social regulating behaviors that maintain social conditions necessary for group survival.

“Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.” —John Stuart Mill, 1848 There is always work to be done to…

“Will make them millionaires” should be replaced with “will afford them a home in a city with decent paying jobs.” For all intents and purposes, they are interchangeable and that’s…

Investing in what?

Keep criticizing them but what do you expect them to be doing instead? Dropping pennies into a 401K after giving half their paycheck to their landlord and the other half to student…

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Additionally, the status quo can’t sustain itself either. The current restlessness has a few (I only mean a few) notable similarities to the social context which led to WW1. A ling…

Great point! So simple, but as someone who has never worked on this side of things I never thought about it. How would legal limitations on data collection, like GDPR, influence th…

Are you trying to suggest that a registered non-profit charity organization is an equivalent to a panhandler?

Very well said. Same age here and I could not agree more. I don’t like traffic, but for that we need a base level of public transportation infrastructure, not this WFH nightmare dy…

The ultimate result is never profit. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to...

This is a pretty good defense. Well done.