ElProlactin

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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> It seems unlikely that someone who has served that long in her position would rule based on making the child in the White House happy. The US is a corporatocracy. It's apparently a lot easier for Americans to convince themselves t
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
It's interesting to see the difference (so far) in comments about banning AI versus banning social media.
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> Unless you think the racism and sexism is a key part of what enabled economic mobility and prosperity for others... It is an historical fact that women and minorities were excluded and discriminated against in the 1800s, and that this
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
Do you even educate yourself about the things you post about? Take https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Miners%27_Tax_Act_of_1... . This is an example of the type of law that was passed during your "good vibes&quo
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
You wrote: > I said in the original post a person with $22,500 BEFORE TAX A person is not a household of 4 people. You can't even keep your comments straight, but in either case, you're just wrong. A 4 person household (2 a
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> Because the vibe I get is that it was better than today for the people who wanted to work hard... The "vibe" you get? You were there? I'd point out that during the Gilded Age, women were largely excluded from the work fo
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
This is really so amusingly sad. A single person with no children making $22,500 before tax does not come away with $49,000 after tax and transfers. Look it up, dude. I assume you saw the CBO distribution-of-income report and didn't ac
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
I find comments like this interesting because they're devoid of the details that matter. What's the size of the household? Could a single person in rural America making $50,000/year save up enough to buy a house? Sure. Could
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
THERE IS NO POST You just pulled numbers out of... A single person making $50,000/year is not tax negative in the US. You need a 4 person household with $50,000/year in gross income to get clearly tax negative to the point where t
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> ...the kind of person to invent new definitions to fit statistics... https://frac.org/news/usdafoodsecurityreportdec2025 "1 in 7 households (13.7 percent) in America experienced food insecurity, or lack of ac
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
That's not what "land of opportunity" means in the US. It means upward social mobility, plentiful job opportunities across a wide range of inudstries, decent work for decent pay, ample rewards for hard work. Socioeconomically
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
Food insecure is defined as "lack of access to an affordable, nutritious diet". In the wealthiest country in the world. I guess I've been living outside of the US for way too long because the idea that Americans would say &qu
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> Poor people pay payroll taxes... Exactly. Only a few small groups are exempt from FICA.
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
Of course two people with low incomes shouldn't have two kids. But (as detailed in my other comment) you need a 4 person household with 2 kids to get tax negative at $50,000/year. Even a 3 person household with 1 kid isn't ta
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> NO. WRONG. Yelling doesn't prove your point, and you conveniently avoided answering the most important questions, like where and what household size? First, there is no credit that offsets payroll tax. A single person with $50,000
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
"Have shelter and food" is surviving. That's the point. And speaking of food, the USDA says that over 47 million Americans lived in a food insecure household in 2024. That's 1 in 7 people. In the world's richest cou
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> ...you can live a pretty decent life on $50k in most of the US. Where? And what's the size of the household? It's one thing to make $50,000/year as a single young person sharing an apartment with 2 other people. It'
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
Take a step back. A family of 4 with $22,500 in income is well below the poverty line in the US, which is ~$33,000/year. But do you think a family of 2 adults and 2 children with a "feels like" income of $50,000 is still not
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
This isn't true though. There is significant discussion in the financial media about the valuations of AI-related companies, the financing of the AI infrastructure buildout, etc. Academics are talking about it. Investment banks are tal
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> ...or does not earn a living wage, conservatively pegged at $26,000 (in 2025 dollars) annually before taxes. I couldn't easily tell how they decided on a $26,000 "living wage" figure but in most of the US, even double th
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
Anthropic's ARR is reportedly now above $60 billion. OpenAI's is reportedly above $40 billion. Countless people and businesses are using AI to create tangible value and reduce costs. We can debate whether the level of investment i
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
Here's an exercise you should consider doing: instead of your $1000/$10 numbers, use real numbers for the major software companies investing heavily in AI.
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> Ed Zitron is a blow hard and frequently overstates things to the point where it is hard to take seriously, but so are the AI industry leaders. Except that the AI industry leaders actually have skin in the game/are in the trenches
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
That's exactly what I mean. High blue-collar wages are dependent on white-collar employment and wages.
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
Claude "talk" is particularly annoying if you're using Claude to perform a job function (write code, analyze a spreadsheet, etc.) but average people reading an ad, Facebook post, etc. don't really care from what I can te
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
Except that in the worst-case AI scenarios where a huge portion of the professionals who work "behind a screen" lose their jobs, the entire labor market will have to deal with that. There's so much focus in the US on vocation
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
I understand your angle, but I'm coming from a different one: these are the "market forces" that matter today across a wide swath of industry, and, most importantly, the most lucrative industry. Capital beats culture most of
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
It's actually not that simple. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2526041123
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> Yup, as they basically are. Bolts of lighting would fall under "random acts of god/nature". And a person using a gun to kill someone else is a "random act of god/nature" how exactly? For someone who seems
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by ElProlactin 1mo ago
> Obvious disclaimer: It is completely obvious that freak incidents occur... Are you really now characterizing incidents of gun violence and suicide as "freak incidents"? They just happen, like a random bolt of lightning in a c

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