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If you have a zero sum game, any advice you give is creating an arms race. The only solution is to have fewer Berliners or more housing.
Or eliminate rent control, allowing prices to float to the level people are actually willing to pay. You only see bot-driven stuff like that in cases where desirable goods are being deliberately under-priced.
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> "Go out and talk to people" isn't valid advice. It's never been, but in 2025 finally even the mainstream is slowly admitting that this doesn't work. Why doesn't it work?
It absolutely does work but it’s too vague. A person in this position really needs to go outside and talk to people but doesn’t where to start. So, join a running club, or go to pub trivia, take an in person class, or volunteer. Pick literally anything you can show up once a week and there will be people doing stuff. It will change your life.
for many people, they just want an answer to their question. whatever means they get that answer doesn't really matter. the new trend of locking your website content behind a sign in wall or app download is only going push more people to chatbots.
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> "Go out and talk to people" isn't valid advice. It's never been, but in 2025 finally even the mainstream is slowly admitting that this doesn't work. Why doesn't it work?
a) people go out to spend time with already established friends, not talk to random strangers b) people don't want to be approached by random strangers c) I want to be friends with people who have similar lifestyle and values to me and create deeper connections d) people have busy schedules and don't have time to meet Source: I've tried > but you haven't tried this particular activity that I recommend so you cannot t…
It continues to work for me in 2025.
I can weigh in on this. I run a small information website ( https://allaboutberlin.com ). My traffic has been growing steadily for 7 years, but now its down 30-ish percent year on year. From what I'm hearing, my competitors (and friends) are having it worse. My main mission is to put new information on the internet. It's harder to do this if AI destroys the economics of it. It's also harder without an audience who pr…
I can weigh in on this. I run a small information website ( https://allaboutberlin.com ). My traffic has been growing steadily for 7 years, but now its down 30-ish percent year on year. From what I'm hearing, my competitors (and friends) are having it worse. My main mission is to put new information on the internet. It's harder to do this if AI destroys the economics of it. It's also harder without an audience who pr…
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a) people go out to spend time with already established friends, not talk to random strangers b) people don't want to be approached by random strangers c) I want to be friends with people who have similar lifestyle and values to me and create deeper connections d) people have busy schedules and don't have time to meet Source: I've tried > but you haven't tried this particular activity that I recommend so you cannot t…
> "Go out and talk to people" isn't valid advice. It's never been, but in 2025 finally even the mainstream is slowly admitting that this doesn't work. It continues to work for me in 2025.
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Or eliminate rent control, allowing prices to float to the level people are actually willing to pay. You only see bot-driven stuff like that in cases where desirable goods are being deliberately under-priced.
This will benefit the wealthier strata of society, but why does the city belong to them more than anyone else?
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This will benefit the wealthier strata of society, but why does the city belong to them more than anyone else?
Why should it belong to people who are good at botting? That's a much less fair way to allocate resources than wealth. In a free society wealth is used to buy things, that's the point of earning it. If you don't generate more wealth and you trade it away then eventually you end up poor again. If you're generating wealth continuously, then the things you can buy with it are the reward for doing so. It's much better fo…
This is actually a good thing, now we don’t have to sift though a dozen semiautomatically created SEO gaming website that try and make the same point 5-6 said in slightly different ways.