alexashka

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by alexashka 10mo ago
This seems fitting: > Yet what is the result, the gain to humanity, of this wonderfully regulated society which has been built solely to make life richer? Millions are on the verge of starvation, hundreds of thousands are spending their
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by alexashka 10mo ago
> And "I like Lisp" should be an automatic qualifier. Very funny and on the nose :)
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by alexashka 10mo ago
Because it's what has been advertised to teenagers to maximize profit. Western culture is a mental issue beyond repair. It will soon be gone and it will not be missed.
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by alexashka 10mo ago
I imagine slave owners who didn't abuse their slaves felt quite righteous and even superior to other slave owners. Where is it better? Who treats slaves better than I do, they'd say.
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by alexashka 10mo ago
> A society with a pragmatic regard for its own survival would ban it outright Western society would cease to exist if it didn't continue its diabolical lies, falsehoods and abuse. The lies are not optional. It is because of pragmat
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by alexashka 10mo ago
> There's a lot of nonsense that comes out on both sides of the aisle. I wish there was a solid single source of truth to figure out what's really going on in China and what's really going on behind the scenes in the U.S.
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by alexashka 10mo ago
Opportunities to be among the insufferable nepo baby cohort? The most revealing example of this was when I found out how many of UK's 'elite' school children were molested, grew up and proceeded to do everything they can to m
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by alexashka 10mo ago
This is FAANG bro's 'let them eat cake'.
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by alexashka 10mo ago
It's a problem, it's just not the root problem. The root problem is nepo babies. Whether it's capitalism or communism or whatever China has currently - it's all people doing everything to give their own children every un
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by alexashka 11mo ago
> Sometimes it feels like everything that I care about most has been marginalized and commodified to the point of financial inviability Every day is a new chance to re-examine what you most care about and make some surprising discoveries
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by alexashka 11mo ago
David 'Crypto Bail-Out King' Sacks said.
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by alexashka 11mo ago
Don't keep us in suspense. What is this better system you speak of?
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by alexashka 1y ago
It will always boil down to people. This fantasy of free markets, laws, branches or anything else solving what Plato wrote about in The Republic thousands of years ago is pure folly. If it is of any comfort - it's always been this
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by alexashka 1y ago
Automation replaced labor decades ago. A 32 hour work week was suggested by USA politicians almost a century ago. Read that again - a century ago. You're trying to reduce complex human issues to a single metric of input vs output. I
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by alexashka 1y ago
Are you quoting the rationale for China's one child policy? You misunderstand what the elites do. They prevent change because the status quo has been setup by their parents and grand-parents to benefit them at the expense of everyone
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by alexashka 1y ago
> just to keep them caged and desperate, a layoff away from a family annihilation. Loyal to death. > This essay is pompous Pompous he said.
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by alexashka 1y ago
They're ten steps ahead of you. ~85% of spending is done by women. If you don't want to live alone - you will be living a marketing campaign.
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by alexashka 1y ago
Keeping old sick people alive as long as possible is absolutely the money maker for big pharma. Part of keeping old sick people alive is generic antibiotics. Therefore, we will continue to have them. It has nothing to do with what people wh
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by alexashka 1y ago
> And it's not like we have a good alternative to that - "let more people die earlier" is not an easy sell Decreasing big pharma's quarterly profits is not an easy sell, you mean? Or are we supposed to pretend any of
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by alexashka 1y ago
If your cattle had a tendency to communicate with one another and wonder about their circumstance - you'd also start 'musing'.
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by alexashka 1y ago
The problem with corporate work is that it exists - that corporations exist. You do have the option to spend your time elsewhere - if you can handle every NPC friend and family member thinking you've lost your mind when you quit that c
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by alexashka 1y ago
There's unfortunately a crack epidemic. Try to quickly become a drug dealer and cash in. --- Chef's kiss. I'd like to thank people like you for where we are.
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by alexashka 1y ago
This generation's most needed skill is being born to rich parents. But it'll be totally different in the next generation. Trust me, bro, I'm rich - so I must know what I'm talking about.
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by alexashka 1y ago
The kinds of jobs I imagine would leave people with far more energy and time to do whatever they want - including learning, or not learning :)
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by alexashka 1y ago
We can at the very least tweak existing systems to be meaningfully better. For example we could phase out all marketing and advertising. We could simplify and automate accounting and many other jobs. We could reduce the work week to 30 hour
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by alexashka 1y ago
Sounds like sociopaths being allowed to do sociopath things problem, rather than supply and demand problem.
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by alexashka 1y ago
> unspecific vibes that it must be bad if employees like it Chef's kiss.
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by alexashka 1y ago
Meh. The greater scam here is that rugged individualism can lead to positive societal outcomes. Just more free market capitalism, bro! We just need more freedom for the tech bros, the finance bros, bro! This AI shit is yet another oh look
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by alexashka 1y ago
Because the 'trend' of the economy going into the ground has been consistent for decades.
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by alexashka 1y ago
> So folks, practice talking to people. Much of what's wrong in the current world is actually loneliness, having no outlet for your expressions. If I had a penny for every bizarre theory people who ruin the world believe about who&#

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