Trump's extreme corruption.
Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
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Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
#82Elon Musk has directly caused the deaths hundreds of thousands of impoverished people due to his reckless dismantling of USAID (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hun...). He's also an open white supremacist most recently responsible for instigating race riots in Belfast (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/06/13/m...). Read his social media feeds: they are literally Stormfront rhetoric at this point. But people don't want to hear these things. They just want to cheer for the trillionaire rocketman. It's sick and infuriating.
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#83(Beyond the socioeconomic topics already covered): Why aren’t eink displays more useful? They seem like they should be. More than e-readers or a calendar.
Still waiting for an eink display on par with photos on paper.
The technology still lacks good color rendition
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#84Brazil's national team performance not only in this World Cup, but the last 20 years. I don't even care about football, but as a kid who saw Brazil win the 2002 World Cup, it's hard to see it do so badly since.
And the future seems gloom overall. Not looking forward to it. I used to.
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#85I have been working for 10 years and unable to afford a home to start a family. I have about 350k USD and live in New Delhi.
It's insane to read that US$ 350k doesn't afford a home in New Delhi... Even in Stockholm that is enough money to outright buy an apartment, not necessarily dead center in the city but definitely within a short ride on the metro.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have any dreams? Things you always wanted to accomplish as a child, perhaps?
oh thanks for asking! I have never been very goal oriented, and despite how this may sound, I am quite satisfied with what I have accomplished. That's sort of the problem, I am in a too comfortable position at the moment. So for me to pull the trigger in any direction I'll need some real motivation. Most of what I am exposed to at the moment seems irrelevant or not worth my effort. I need to keep trying things and fi…
Of course, thanks for answering! :)
Do you have any trouble with executive function, like for things you know you should do? I certainly struggle getting started on new things, everything feels "not worth my effort", so I understand that feeling.
In what aspect of your life are you least fulfilled?
Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
#87Wealth 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?
I spend a lot of time here: https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart
Housing/medical/college etc are outpacing incomes. Loneliness has skyrocketed. People are voting for fascism and starting wars. Americans like to pretend with their big houses and fancy iphones, but things are NOT ok.
Also note on that chart: younger demographics in the US are reporting significantly lower life evaluations compared to older demographics. So if you think things right now are bad, you haven't seen anything yet.
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#88Wealth 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?
Because I believe we all deserve to have a relatively equal say in how society should function, and the existence of trillionaires is antithetical to that.
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#89Wealth 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?
There are many more economic distortions that happen from having massive wealth inequality — too many to list in one comment — but the biggest one is that democracy isn’t possible with a certain level of wealth inequality.
In such models where individuals in a market system can influence public/private institutions for their own interest (news organizations, private think tanks, lobbyists, public/private colleges, corporations, charities, nonprofits etc etc) will be able to reroute those institutional resources to gaming elections — which is unavoidable result over the market’s long run, similar to it being impossible to defend one’s currency against speculators over the long run — thus selection pressures force politicians and political institutions to either cater to these wealthy people’s whims and the institutions they control, or to somehow (and very unlikely) bare the selection pressures that are pushing them out of office.
Given the law of large numbers, you’d presume at any point the average legislator would be captured more by these maladaptive selection pressures rather than somehow existing in spite of them.
As democracy is eaten away, we will maintain a slow decay to a Russia-like sultan oligarchic system and the comforts the majority currently maintain will slowly go with them.
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#90I'm tired of people not taking responsibility for things they do and not being held accountable for their actions - politicians mostly; for example - currently in Poland there's a controversy around Zondacrypto (read here: https://www.politico.eu/article/a-missing-investor-millions-... ); I'm so disillusioned that I believe nothing will come out of it - it will again be a case of "nobody did it, it just a thing that…
I’m from the USA and understand your sentiment. Unfortunately, the behavior of people rarely surprises me.