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It feels as if every CEO used ChatGPT once and said “wow this is incredible, pivot hard to make our product use AI”, and that’s about all the thought has matured to.
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I mean, I want to walk away from it all and go live in the woods too, but AI creates newspaper articles and videos, so I'm not sure how it's going to become an orphan except to become boring and commonplace eg the Xerox copy machine became a boring ole business. One that's gotten fucked by private equity and greed and capitalism. Hey you want it tomorrow on special paper that we already have? That'll be a handling fe…
Don't have to take my word for it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-11-19/odd-lots-the... This is going to a backlash like no other. Better prepare. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/how-the-p... A tsunami of rage.
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There are hundreds of thousands of developers here including me who would vouch that AI does make them vastly more productive.
Productive how? If you’re not measuring the thing, how can you tell that the thing improved?
A small startup now has the chance to compete with incumbents without raising from VCs.
Not talking about you, but I think cynics just look at it with too much pessimism and therefore can't see it.
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In which of those countries is it possible for a man to work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children?
If they're happy to do it to 1970s standards, probably most of them. The standard of what an ordinary life looks like has gone up a lot. Plus when only the man worked looking after a home was a full time job - much less in the way of microwaves and washing machines and whatnot. It is worth remembering that in the early 1900s there were a lot of houses that didn't even have electricity. The trends [0] are clear. As so…
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In which of those countries is it possible for a man to work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children?
It's a simple catch-22 - women don't want to leave the workforce because one salary cannot support a family - yet women remaining in the workforce, since single-salary is infeasible, thusly doubling supply of workers, lowering salaries, which itself makes it infeasible to single-income a family Not to pick on women, as a feminist if you ask me, all modern men should have to be houseboys to serve their feminine master…
You can't go back and get pregnant. And your marriage probably ended in divorce already anyway by now, which is a whole more amount of suffering.
Oh, an article from the BBC, I won't read it because they are liars.
(Won't someone think of the children).
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Thanks for pointing out this skewed view of economic history common in North America. The short period of boom in 50s/60s US and Canada was driven by WW2 devastation everywhere else. We can see the economic crisis' in the US first in the 70s/80s with Europe and Japan rebounding, then again in 90s/00s with China and East Asia growing, and now again with the rest of the world growing (esp Latin America, India, Indonesi…
> It's a shame that US didn't invest all that prosperity into social capital that could have helped create high value jobs. Are you aware of the plan Marshall?
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Its in the nature of men to work and provide. That's how men seek fulfilment in life. But if you dial up the pain in the process men will bail. This shouldn't be surprising. Perhaps the most primal biological set up of all, the very basis of evolution is response to stimulus.
> Its in the nature of men to work and provide. That's how men seek fulfilment in life. i'm sorry, what? it's ingrained in men to be worker-drones and every man sees this as his fulfillment? yikes. as the kids say, 'touch grass'. translated for older people, "maybe expand your world-view and don't extrapolate your idea of a man to all of men."
Men can work all sorts of ways, and that can include raising kids. Women tend to be a lot less happier leaving their kids to go toil with the dirt.
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> In the 60s it was possible for a man to work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children. Every kind of a man, or woman? > Do people really think more technology is going to be the path to a better society? Because to me it looks like the opposite. Well, this probably why statistics exist.
Thanks for pointing out this skewed view of economic history common in North America. The short period of boom in 50s/60s US and Canada was driven by WW2 devastation everywhere else. We can see the economic crisis' in the US first in the 70s/80s with Europe and Japan rebounding, then again in 90s/00s with China and East Asia growing, and now again with the rest of the world growing (esp Latin America, India, Indonesi…