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I've been warning of software deterioration for the past few years and this seems to be an extension of the same effect. Likely the result of increasingly non-m

I've been warning of software deterioration for the past few years and this seems to be an extension of the same effect. Likely the result of increasingly non-meritocratic employee selection processes and non-meritocratic incentive structures. Due to government interference in the economy (especially due to money printing), we've basically turned our capitalist system into a very poorly implemented communist system. People are broke, have low self esteem, can't afford to own a house and only anticipate further deterioration. Heck, average people can't even find a romantic partner because rich people are monopolizing the supply by dating 10 people at a time. I'm surprised things are not worse than they are. I guess it will take another decade to feel the full effects of the problems we're creating today.

astrange 3y ago
You just have depression. Healthy people don't go around collecting sad half-truths. I don't know any rich people with 10 girlfriends though. Rich people have just as much time as anyone else, likely even less since they usually work more, so that sounds hard to schedule.
- jongjong 3y ago
  As if anyone would tell you if they had 10 girlfriends on Tinder. The number is just a figure of speech. The effect is real. Also, I'm probably happier than you will ever be because I live in the truth and am surrounded by honest people who have 0 incentive to pretend or say anything that they don't fully believe.
  - astrange 3y ago
    Your truth is that people are broke[0] because there's too much money[1] and that you don't have a girlfriend because rich people on Tinder stole the women? [0] they aren't https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96 [1] even if that made sense, it's going down again https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
    - jongjong 3y ago
      Yes. More money but with much more inequality which is manufactured by money printing. People who aren't socially connected to money printers are starved of funding in spite of the abundance of money in the pockets of a shrinking number of elite. And as much as you'd like the second sentence to be true. I'm happily married to an attractive Russian woman. The western brainwashing didn't reach Russia thankfully. I'm speaking for other guys in the west as I could very well have been one of them if luck hadn't been on my side.

astrange 3y ago

You just have depression. Healthy people don't go around collecting sad half-truths. I don't know any rich people with 10 girlfriends though. Rich people have just as much time as anyone else, likely even less since they usually work more, so that sounds hard to schedule.

jongjong 3y ago
As if anyone would tell you if they had 10 girlfriends on Tinder. The number is just a figure of speech. The effect is real. Also, I'm probably happier than you will ever be because I live in the truth and am surrounded by honest people who have 0 incentive to pretend or say anything that they don't fully believe.
- astrange 3y ago
  Your truth is that people are broke[0] because there's too much money[1] and that you don't have a girlfriend because rich people on Tinder stole the women? [0] they aren't https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96 [1] even if that made sense, it's going down again https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
  - jongjong 3y ago
    Yes. More money but with much more inequality which is manufactured by money printing. People who aren't socially connected to money printers are starved of funding in spite of the abundance of money in the pockets of a shrinking number of elite. And as much as you'd like the second sentence to be true. I'm happily married to an attractive Russian woman. The western brainwashing didn't reach Russia thankfully. I'm speaking for other guys in the west as I could very well have been one of them if luck hadn't been on my side.