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Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by julienreszka »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #137

My finances are ruined, I can't get a job because of my past history, living in a small town with no work (but stuck with paid of house) and my age. Hoping my vehicle sells here soon. It's a bad day. I haven't been able to eat today from stress. I went for a walk in the woods. It was beautiful and amazing. There were the last of the lupine (my daughters favorites flower). A couple deer. Talked to a friend. Many have…

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Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by Schiendelman »

swed420 wrote: post #108
Schiendelman wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm unconvinced that younger people have a harder time than the last couple of generations at the same ages, and would like to see evidence that this is not simply them overwhelming themselves with social media comparisons with others. Yes, housing, medical, and college are outpacing incomes. Which item would you want to work on if you only got to pick ONE thing?

> Yes, housing, medical, and college are outpacing incomes. Which item would you want to work on if you only got to pick ONE thing? Why would we intentionally narrow the discussion like this? That's something that pretend political parties do to prop up the interests of the uniparty of capital interests while squelching actual progress for the majority.

Why? Because an individual can only positively influence one thing at a time when it's so far outside of their sphere. My goal is to help people make positive change, and the only way to do that is with focus.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by Schiendelman »

Herring wrote: post #111
Schiendelman wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm unconvinced that younger people have a harder time than the last couple of generations at the same ages, and would like to see evidence that this is not simply them overwhelming themselves with social media comparisons with others. Yes, housing, medical, and college are outpacing incomes. Which item would you want to work on if you only got to pick ONE thing?

They have social media in Finland too. Go talk it out with your favorite "pro" LLM. You can't just pick one. The main problem is inequality is rising, which means those without serious capital (which includes the young) are much less likely to see anything from their efforts. It just pops up in different ways. All my money goes to [rent, inflation, student loans, hospital bills, .. etc].

Henry George made a compelling case that land is the inherent driver of inequality issues, and I think the work being done in housing now significantly supports that theory. If you want a bunch of those choose fixed, and they all are rooted in inequality, you may want to get rid of land use restrictions on housing development.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by Schiendelman »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #128
Schiendelman wrote: post #14

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If we've got a higher level of comfort, why does it matter?

Because we could have it so much better… Just one example: high-speed rail in the U.S.

If you're interested, I spent over a decade as a mass transit organizer, and I think there's a pretty clear path to high-speed rail in the US. But no one likes it!

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by Schiendelman »

fsuts wrote: post #136
Schiendelman wrote: post #53

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Ahh. Are you aware of the argument that education shouldn't be funded with property taxes, to even it out?

No, and did you mean should be or shouldn’t be?

Shouldn't be! I recommend starting there. A lot of the problems with education funding stem from the wealthy neighborhoods getting a lot more money because their local property taxes generate more revenue. Flattening that across an entire state, in the case of the US, would likely set up incentives to force the upper middle class to push up school funding.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by Schiendelman »

swat535 wrote: post #113
Schiendelman wrote: post #97

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Do you believe that across the planet, that is worse or better than it was 20 years ago? 40 years ago?

Do you believe the housing crisis, living wages and affordability is better than it was 20 years ago? 40 years ago? If so, where ?

Median wages are way up. Housing affordability is down, and it's pretty easy to trace that to a single root cause.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by Herring »

Schiendelman wrote: post #143
Herring wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have social media in Finland too. Go talk it out with your favorite "pro" LLM. You can't just pick one. The main problem is inequality is rising, which means those without serious capital (which includes the young) are much less likely to see anything from their efforts. It just pops up in different ways. All my money goes to [rent, inflation, student loans, hospital bills, .. etc].

Henry George made a compelling case that land is the inherent driver of inequality issues, and I think the work being done in housing now significantly supports that theory. If you want a bunch of those choose fixed, and they all are rooted in inequality, you may want to get rid of land use restrictions on housing development.

Yeah I’d go even further. Singapore-style public housing is pretty high on my wishlist. But it’s a long wishlist.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by chadgpt3 »

sph wrote: post #120
chadgpt3 wrote: post #105

My life is completely meaningless, I am now 30, I lost my job, nobody is hiring (only ghost jobs), I could be deported at any moment because my visa is linked to my employment, also I am 30 and I have never had a girlfriend or sex, so is it just a slow decline from here until death or what? Also everything fun is illegal, people who make cool software inconvenient to the government (like anonymous social media) seem…

I don't have an easy solution to your problem, so knowing that someone might have sensible words for you, I'll be the one to suggest to do something drastic. No, not that. If you have your back against the wall, why not completely change your life? Move to another country. Spend a month in Thailand to get over your obsession with sex. Go pick avocadoes in Australia. Take heavy psychedelics. Start smoking and drinking…

I know there's a word for it and that everyone goes through it. That doesn't make it better.

By any objective standards my life isn't bad. I lost my job but I'm still financially secure for a while. But it isn't good, either. Picking avocados in Australia wouldn't be any better. I'm not even going to touch on smoking and drinking to forget the pain of the meaninglessness of existence, because I know what happens to people who do. You don't want to touch psychedelics while in a bad mental state either.

I am not young, that's the problem. When I was 15 I was young. When I was 20 I was young. When I was 25 one could argue I was young. 30 is not young any more. It's not old yet, that starts at about 45, but young is over.

When I was 20 I did make some cool software that a lot of people across the internet liked. Then I had to work harder for university and didn't have enough free time to continue it and I've never done that again since, even when I had free time again.

Possibly the worst thing is the thought that nothing matters, except maybe having children, which just kicks the can along the road and won't happen for me anyway, and shouldn't. I think it's relevant because everyone who has children finds the purpose of their life is to support their children. People who don't have a much harder time with that.

It's an emotional state. Perfectly rationally, we should all just do nothing because nothing matters in the end. But somehow we grow up with the illusion that things matter, and I want that back!

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by chadgpt3 »

Schiendelman wrote: post #14
adlpz wrote: post #6

Wealth concentration beyond a point which would have resulted in widespread revolution 150 years ago, but that is now being tolerated because we've grown accustomed to a level of comfort we don't want to risk losing.

If we've got a higher level of comfort, why does it matter?

We don't. It's not about being warm in winter. That's the least important thing as long as you're not actually freezing to death. We used to look forward to the future, now we dread it, and I don't think that's just me being in an existential crisis right now, other people have said it too.
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