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by bendigedig 1y ago
Or if you subscribe to David Graeber's bullshit jobs theory, if 80% of jobs are bullshit then what is the problem in reducing the amount of bullshit that needs to be done? Four days of bullshit instead of five?
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by bendigedig 1y ago
> - if people can do 5 days' work in 4, can they also do 4 days' work in 3? What's special about 4 days? Will work scope down until it becomes true that it could be done in 3 days, just as 5 days' work seems to have s
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Isn't that exactly what he's saying? There will be times and ages when it will be ignored but it will keep popping back up again and again.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Got it: I was just following orders.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
This is the kind of attitude that leads to revolutions.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
It is amazing that an article purporting to claim that inequality is narrowing doesn't seem to show any kind of population distribution of wealth and champions stats averaged over a suspiciously long time, a century of all time periods
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by bendigedig 1y ago
We are entering a time of great uncertainty and change. To me it is natural that people wish to discuss it here.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Sounds like exactly what happens when an empire is on its way to collapse. It eats its young.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Life is ephemeral.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
I have plenty of experience doing code reviews and to do a good job is pretty hard and thankless work. If I had to do that all day every day I'd be very unhappy.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Thank you kindly, good sir.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Validating the outputs of a stochastic parrot sounds like a very alienating job.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
But there is a world outside of the USA and some of the same problems are happening there too.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
All of our rights have been created because of how people feel. How else would we decide what we collectively value? Logic is only logical if it is grounded in how we as humans feel.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Cool story. I think most accept that we are unlikely to achieve thr absolute state you have described above, but we can reduce the scale of the bureaucratic categorisation and the associated distorted trail we leave; there is no question th
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by bendigedig 1y ago
But what about what the article hints to w.r.t. the right to never be recorded? To be recorded is to leave an immutable trail of the self which prejudices how you (and others) view yourself. To be monitored is to be categorised which is to
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Not necessarily, it depends where you live. Remember that market rents are higher than they need to be due to the artificial scarcity imposed by a NIMBY-friendly planning system and the inaction of successive Governments who have chosen to
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Free home? What are you on about? You still have to pay rent in social housing.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
> House price ratio has doubled since 2000 but over the last twenty years in the UK it’s flat. The doomsaying is not justified. Now come on, data is data, if you want your arguments to live on the cite-able data, then you must accept tha
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by bendigedig 2y ago
> It means you can’t say something like “the numbers are only higher because more adults are living together”, as that is already being adjusted for. In theory. I think it muddies the waters because it's possible that the numbers ar
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by bendigedig 2y ago
+1 for the citation, thanks. The numbers do paint a picture of a fairly anemic 5-10% increase between 02/03 and 23/24 in 'inflation-adjusted' median household income. However, I note that that the data is 'equivali
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by bendigedig 2y ago
Citations required plz
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by bendigedig 2y ago
The one thing I think this post gets right is the idea of how self-alienating a tech job can be. But I would argue that the desire is also part of an attempt to escape the unrelenting bureaucracy and lack of autonomy that can be so stifling
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by bendigedig 2y ago
I think alienation is more of a bottom-up emotional experience than anything that a top-down argument can really impact.
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by bendigedig 2y ago
Isn't this just an extension of the culture of asking for evidence to make future decisions? If I go to the bank and ask for a loan they will ask me for evidence of product market fit and other signals that suggest to them that I will
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by bendigedig 2y ago
Yes. The only question is 'when'?
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by bendigedig 2y ago
bananas are slightly more radioactive than background radiation
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by bendigedig 2y ago
This is a complete fallacy. Car owners might pay for their cars but the annual emissions tax doesn't come close to covering the cost of roads and their infrastructure. Road transport is subsidised to a far larger extent than rail trave
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by bendigedig 2y ago
I use "meow", "woof", and "cheeseburger".
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by bendigedig 2y ago
I'm not going to argue with you on this particular case as I don't know enough about the local area and can't be bothered to do any research. However, my comment was really to provide context for some of the sweeping statemen

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