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Why I still blog after 15 years

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Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by SamPatt »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #196
golergka wrote: post #138

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Economic growth is another way of saying "improving people's lives". An economic system which always needs to improve people's lives is a good thing, actually. When you compare modern first world to 60 years ago, people's lives have significantly improved. And if you do the same in developed countries, the difference is unbelievable.

> When you compare modern first world to 60 years ago, people's lives have significantly improved. I disagree that most people's lives have "significantly improved" compared with the 1960s. We have more things, but I don't think that our lives are that much better, or even better at all. In the 1950s and 60s most families could get by with a one income household -- try that today. Even medically - on the one hand our…

>I disagree that most people's lives have "significantly improved" compared with the 1960s. We have more things, but I don't think that our lives are that much better, or even better at all. In the 1950s and 60s most families could get by with a one income household -- try that today.

This impression is contradicted by a mountain of data. Ourworldindata.org is a good place to start.

Anecdotally, when I talk to elderly people, they nearly all agree that they've witnessed substantial improvements in living standards. They're not always keen on the cultural changes, but they nearly always view modern living as "better off."

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Post by smsm42 »

codetrotter wrote: post #159
nemomarx wrote: post #142

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I get the opposite vibe - you read literature, you consume content like it's generic slop and the quality isn't that important.

Agreed. It’s like fast food, but for your brain.

With the same long-term health benefits.

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by smsm42 »

My personal blog is over 23 years old now. I am sure I wouldn't do it this long for anybody but myself. I haven't checked the readership figures for years, though I know some people read it, because they comment. I think it's nice, though I think if nobody read it at all, I'd still be doing it.

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Post by aksss »

Minor49er wrote: post #215
aksss wrote: post #117

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I more worry about AI hoovering up my hard work and that makes me think about the honesty of my beliefs about why I write. In my hobby domain, authors were traditionally very protective of obscure sources, it was all about getting the book published, becoming recognized authority. There would be a sense of pride in having an expensive limited-run book. They were/are gate-keepers extraordinaire. I kind of hate that ho…

> I more worry about AI hoovering up my hard work... I still appreciate some recognition and am not writing to feed a machine. I don't get this focus on so-called AI. Google and other bot farms have been hoovering up hard work wholesale for decades, even intercepting clicks and credit via things like AMP If people give up writing, then only bots will be writers. Damn the technology and keep posting

Maybe it's a new level of accessibility to data that's afforded by AI?

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Post by rakoo »

funcDropShadow wrote: post #220
rakoo wrote: post #216

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You're assuming socialist/communist economies must, for some reason, be run exactly the same as capitalist economies. Of course if you're trying to mix both it will collapse. The point of Marx isn't that we should create markets where the value is decided by the amount of labor. The point of Marx is that if Labor creates value, then Labor should be in charge. The problem being that Labor is hard, so the end goal cann…

If maximizing value is not the goal, then why should Marxism redefine value in a counter-intuitive way? Btw, "Labor" cannot be in charge, outside the UK at least, because Labor is an abstract concept. In Marxist societies people are in charge that pretend to have the laborers best interest in their hearts. But as they "Some are more equal than others."

> If maximizing value is not the goal, then why should Marxism redefine value in a counter-intuitive way?

Because it's only an exchange value and doesn't take into account the myriad of things that also have value but are not a consequence of work ? And the goal of Marxism might not be to maximize exchange value ?

> In Marxist societies people are in charge that pretend to have the laborers best interest in their hearts

Hard disagree, looking at societies applying values evolved from Marxist theories I see people in charge of themselves. I think of the old Commune de Paris, of the Spanish Revolution, of the Rojava. You need to look further than the one example you have in mind.

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by 8bitsrule »

xenodium wrote: post #209
8bitsrule wrote: post #203

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When I saw I could use HTML I was interested. Then I saw: "Note: style attributes are currently blocked via Content-Security-Policy." That's probably not for me. Restrictions on HTML are a stopper.

The end-goal isn't to restrict, but rather safeguard readers (avoid injecting questionable JS that's everywhere on the web). Is styling what you're after? Something else? Happy to consider different scenarios and open those up.

Oh, I see. I completely understand no JS, I just want the freedom to use HTML & CSS to add some dimensionality (eg floats, sidebars) and images (eg captions) to plain text.

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by soxletor »

SoftTalker wrote: post #113
nineteen999 wrote: post #106

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> The idea of content creation as a full time career is relatively new, and I hate it. I do too, but IMHO unfortunately us older generations have a lot to answer for when it comes to this. My teenage daughter plus all of her friends all want to be content creators. It's the 21st century equivalent of becoming a pop star or being a TV personality. As an industry we've automated away a lot of the jobs that these kids o…

And it's not really new. Being a YouTuber or TikToker was obviously not possible before those platforms existed, but people were musicians, actors, or other sorts of performers, or wrote stuff that they tried to get published, it's all the same drive. Some wanted to do it to become a star and get paid, others did it for the love of the craft. The internet is a new avenue for this, that's all.

It is strange people don't understand this.

The only thing that changes in time is the medium.

100 years ago, young people wanted to be painters.

50 years ago, young people wanted to form a rock band.

2024, young people want to be tiktok stars.

Some are more delusional than others about it but that never changes either.

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