How do we build our perfect future with desperate scared elites worried they won't get to achieve
This is Peter Turchin's "elite overproduction".
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#12How do we build our perfect future with desperate scared elites worried they won't get to achieve
This is Peter Turchin's "elite overproduction".
That's usually how you get bloody revolutions on your hands. French revolutionaries and Bolsheviks were not factory workers — they were disgruntled lawyers and journalists.
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4 people splitting rent on a house will get you very nice accommodations for 600-700 in most of the US, even some coastal cities.
Can you name some? I'm very curious because that was low even for a tiny little college town several hours from any coast ~10+ years ago.
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#14Imagine being so anti-AI that you won’t even use spellcheck! Bravo?
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4 people splitting rent on a house will get you very nice accommodations for 600-700 in most of the US, even some coastal cities.
Can you name some? I'm very curious because that was low even for a tiny little college town several hours from any coast ~10+ years ago.
Green Bay, Wisconsin. Erie, Pennsylvania. Youngstown, Ohio.
There are a lot of of places with ~$700 rents in the US.
Disclaimer: I'm building a project that helps people find these types of places: https://www.exoroad.com/?meanRent=300%2C1000&population=6000...
I put in $1,000 average as a maximum which means you'll find many studios around $700.
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"runway and low rents to keep whiddling away on, until it happened " That's exactly it. Living here in the city. I have cheap rent $680 decent work and the room and time to spend my day coding on projects that I feel like matter. The projects don't feel fully baked, but getting closer right. I just need the time and space to work on them. well said.
Holy smokes, what city are you getting rent for less than $700?
A two-bedroom in a modern high-rise will cost you about $300 a month in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Quite a developed city, and, according to a few friends of mine, very pleasant to live in.
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#17The article describes these elites as arrogant overachievers that expect the lions share of success.
However, from the “elite” kids I’ve met I find it far more likely that they are suffering from imposter syndrome and will do anything to chase external validation to soothe it.
The children coming from these status driven institutions are less villain and more victim
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#18Imagine being so anti-AI that you won’t even use spellcheck! Bravo?
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This is Peter Turchin's "elite overproduction".
That's usually how you get bloody revolutions on your hands. French revolutionaries and Bolsheviks were not factory workers — they were disgruntled lawyers and journalists.
Yup, and right on time we have a fresh update to their revolutionary ideology into which a majority of people with degrees have been indoctrinated.
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#20Imagine being so anti-AI that you won’t even use spellcheck! Bravo?
Spelling checked by claude. Thanks for the reminder. imagine years ago I would just be left to wallow in my ignorance.