> Can you name any social structure in which this is not true? That's a rather disingenuous framing; I think we could probably do quite a lot to reduce the ext

> Can you name any social structure in which this is not true? That's a rather disingenuous framing; I think we could probably do quite a lot to reduce the extent to which it's true without any particularly radical changes to our society. When we do start talking about radical changes, there are a lot that are not just likely to work but actually pretty well proven, like a UBI, improved labor rights, well-regulated and well-supported unions, wealth taxes, and so forth. The possible alternatives are not "if you don't have a job you starve on the street" and "fully automated luxury gay space communism". > Much more likely is them to spend the next 10 years at a relatives house speed running Mario. Despite the disdain which you seem to hold for speedrunners (why?), a lot of really interesting hacking comes out of the speedrunning community. Some very interesting applications of deep learning had their start in the TAS community. I'd rather ten people "waste" my tax dollars on speedrunning or art I don't like than one person be prevented from making art that's important to me (or doing some cool math, or whatever) because their boss's boss wanted a percent of a percent towards another yacht.