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Putting it even more directly - the inevitable outcome of free markets without any competing benign feedback loops is fascism. So you (hypothetically, as a dev
by TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
Putting it even more directly - the inevitable outcome of free markets without any competing benign feedback loops is fascism.
So you (hypothetically, as a developer) make six figures? Superb.
How valuable is that when your country goes down in flames because it's easy to make money out of people who believe Bill Gates is seeding Covid via 5G towers?
- TeMPOraL 6y ago> How valuable is that when your country goes down in flames because it's easy to make money out of people who believe Bill Gates is seeding Covid via 5G towers? That's what I keep telling people around me. They're still bewildered that I don't go out of my way to "optimize" my way out of taxes, or that I'm in favor for raising the taxes for my income bracket. And it doesn't even take a civil war - as the income inequality progresses, how long will it take before your close family will start asking you (the hypothetical rich developer) for help? Will you turn them away, to enjoy your six figures in peace?
- chordalkeyboard 6y ago> as the income inequality progresses, how long will it take before your close family will start asking you (the hypothetical rich developer) for help? and how much help will you be able to offer, given your prior lack of optimization for this very scenario? > Will you turn them away, to enjoy your six figures in peace? "I gave already, it was taken out of my income before I had a chance to spend it, go away now"
- xnx 6y agoAgreed. Everything seems hunky-dory until the guillotines come out, and then all the elites are like "Who? Me?".
- 8note 6y agoPretty darned valuable, especially when you move it into other assets Isis may have taken over parts of Iraq and Syria, but that did not mean that the oil stopped flowing