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by 21723 4y ago
This. Corporate work in particular tends to make people stupid. The 98% who don't climb the ladder end up associating what they are (or used to be) good at with subordination and failure, while the other 2% have optimized themsleves to
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by 21723 4y ago
Virtually no one actually likes risk (pathological gamblers are an exception, but they are understandably rare in the white-collar world). By "risk" I don't mean variance (or, equivalently, standard deviation) and I don'
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by 21723 4y ago
The value-add distribution for software is not quite right. It never goes negative. Most software exists and can sell because it does things rich people who run corporations want done. That usually means it's good for them and bad for
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by 21723 5y ago
Toxic masculinity starts in utero. I was going to reply but then decided, no, nevermind.
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by 21723 5y ago
The answer is that capitalism fucked it up, but since we were a capitalist country even in the 1970s to '90s, this obviously requires further analysis. We didn't "win" the Cold War. Rich people did; working people lost.
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by 21723 5y ago
Music and the arts are where I get worried, because I've seen a lot of good people get involved in NFTs. The regime we had beforehand wasn't working. Spotify royalties were pathetic. The interest in Web3, among artists, comes more
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by 21723 5y ago
Arguably true, also irrelevant. I hope someone is paying you handsomely to post pro-corporate cappie nonsense here, because if you're doing it for free, that's just sad. For a serious response to what you said about modern medicin
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by 21723 5y ago
Get back to your Jira tickets. You have standup in 10 minutes and you better be able to justify your daily wage. --Your boss
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by 21723 5y ago
And prisoners in concentration camps are responsible for their own famines. If only they would eat less. How can you hold responsible people who have no economic freedom?
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by 21723 5y ago
It's not fashionable to actually read long articles, since to take the time means one will be slow to comment and likely be buried (like this comment will probably be) but this article is worth it. Especially valuable among the "2
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by 21723 5y ago
It depends on what you mean by "corrupt". If "corrupt" means "willing to cheat", then obviously that is not limited to the rich. If "corrupt" means "willing to abuse power bestowed on them by soc
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by 21723 5y ago
It is the rich who make these systems. The poor just live in them.
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by 21723 5y ago
Bad take. Although there are decent wealthy people, the proportions are different. The correlation between material success and human decency is negative and this needs to be known; indeed, one of the most important cultural battles in this
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by 21723 5y ago
A cashless society will be a disaster in other ways, too. You think banks are bad now? You dislike fees? If there's no cash, third parties will be able to hike percentages on transfers of all kinds. You could see credit card fees of 10
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by 21723 5y ago
We (the software industry) have royally screwed up computers. Users used to be in control and now they are the ones being controlled or at least “influenced.” I think we naively believed that an increase of human technical capability woul
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by 21723 5y ago
Blogs themselves seem to be on the way out. I hate that this is the case, but it's true. The first problem is the asymmetry between downside (substantial) and upside (very little). We don't live in the world we had in 2004. Author
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by 21723 5y ago
First off, you're talking about income, not wealth. Secondly, what the kids are calling "TeeCee" is an optimistic projection. A lot of people get randomly PIP-raped in the first year and aren't going to see that bonus or
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by 21723 5y ago
The obsession goes both ways, if you consider what those emperors sweetened their wine with.
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by 21723 5y ago
Part of Julius Caesar's tyranny was his work to cancel the debt of common people and redistribute land- Debt owed to wealthy (the senate), and land 'owned' (seized from the public) by the wealthy (the senate). That's n
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by 21723 5y ago
+2 better idea: no standups.
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by 21723 5y ago
It's almost too old for itself.
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by 21723 5y ago
One thing I've noticed with age is the reduced interest in competing. When you're young, you want to know how you measure up to your peers, what your percentile ranking is, et cetera. When you're older, you realize that very
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by 21723 5y ago
This. When we look at the Soviet system, we don't think of it as having had much in the way of scientific or artistic accomplishments. There were some, and the practical engineering and economic achievements were nothing to sneeze at,
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by 21723 5y ago
I'm an aging (late 30s) writer with a fair amount of mathematical exposure, so let me give my perspective. There's a tendency for exceptions to drive the narrative, which leads to a sense of mathematicians peaking earlier than the
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by 21723 5y ago
I don't think it is. Or, it doesn't have to be. Learning new languages isn't that bad. It's learning whole new tech stacks, that often don't add all that much, that is the painful part. This is doubled by the genera
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by 21723 5y ago
Indeed, which is fucking terrifying. You don't do war crimes unless you expect to get away with it, which means either you're fighting a war that more powerful nations don't care about, or you expect to win it. Putin can&#x27
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by 21723 5y ago
Pagat.com is great. I also discovered Ambition, a 4-player trick taking game I recommend highly, through it. Ambition-- https://www.pagat.com/invented/ambition.html