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Another thing is the fact that we're already are at neck breaking speed of adoption an embrace of new tech, to the point I'm sick of it or rather I wished we st
by 0dayz 3y ago
Another thing is the fact that we're already are at neck breaking speed of adoption an embrace of new tech, to the point I'm sick of it or rather I wished we start focus on our decaying communities, socialization, lack of unity and no sense of belonging.
The tell tale sign in my book that we ought to focus on other areas in society, is the fact we are very far behind legislatively on how to handle tech.
- ryandrake 3y ago> The tell tale sign in my book that we ought to focus on other areas in society, is the fact we are very far behind legislatively on how to handle tech. The recent "Senator, we run ads"[1] moment made this point excruciatingly clear. Congress is totally out of touch and outmatched by tech, and seemingly incapable of even grasping it, let alone regulating it. They are no more savvy than they were with Series Of Tubes[2] almost twenty years ago. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTWUOxkfGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTWUOxkfGQ 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
- systemvoltage 3y ago[flagged]
- thebigman433 3y agoCops have gotten raises every single year, even in your "woke" cities. Should we be giving them even bigger raises? How much? If we keep giving them raises, but (as you say) crime keeps going up, doesnt that seem like we're wasting money? Also can you specifically name the socialist policies that are ruining SF? Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole
- systemvoltage 3y agoPretty much all progressive policies of SF have been a total and utter disaster. While Asian countries adopt Capitalism, we're here nibbling our way into full blown communism–intermediary stage being socialism.
- meheleventyone 3y agoThat sounds a lot like feeling over facts, particularly from a non-American perspective where invoking socialism as a bogeyman is laughable.
- thebigman433 3y agoCan you specifically say how we are going into communism? Specific laws being passed perhaps? It sounds like you are entirely putting your feelings over actual facts.
- asimpletune 3y agoI just want to point out that every nation on earth is socialist to some degree. You can call the USA whatever you want, just know there’s a difference between how you label things and dispassionate treatment of the facts. The USA has a socialized military, just like most nations, but other nations choose to socialize different aspects of their needs. It’s all based on what is politically acceptable. Some countries have socialized the police, and I don’t think anyone finds that objectionable. Others would argue there’s hardly a meaningful difference between socializing our physical safety from wrong doers, and our physical safety from accident and disease, ie healthcare. I’m not here to state a position either way on the subject, just to point out the mere existence of a reasonable debate to be had, using healthcare as an example. On the other hand, talking about Socialism (tm), in vague strokes as you said, the opposite of a reasonable debate. It’s substituting an argument for when you don’t have one. And to talk about “San Francisco” as if that pretty much settles things is to take a whole city, full of libertarian tech leaders mind you, and reduce all of the things happening there to a single cause.
- 0dayz 3y agoI mean this in the nicest way possible, you really should stop obsessing over culture war nonsense and start to understand what politics really are. You can be anti-bourgeoisie and not be a socialist for instance conservatives way back in time, who were from villages were anti-bourgeoisie due to the huge difference in living standards they themselves saw, where their community could bare write or read, but their colleagues kids were going to the most expensive private school, this was the backbone of forming universal education. Another is that conservatives once advocated or supported feminist like policy like female education[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_motherhood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_motherhood
- systemvoltage 3y ago[flagged]
- robbie-c 3y agoFYI - Garry Tan is not one of the founders of YC. He is the current CEO. Factual inaccuracies like this make it easy to discount the rest of what you're saying.
- psd1 3y agoThe set of polemics that include the word "woke" and the set of opinions that I learn anything at all from has zero overlap. None. It's a strong signifier of a value-driven rant and a slightly weaker signifier of Dunning-Kruger.
- systemvoltage 3y agoIf Garry Tan posted on HN, he'd be flagged. Every single tweet.
- orbital-decay 3y agoThis speed doesn't even come close to what it was in late 19th early 20th century (transportation, electricity, medicine, mechanization of agriculture etc) which created radical ideologies and turned the world upside down, or even the second half of 20th century.