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by green_man_lives 3y ago
Isn't this a forum founded by a venture capitalist/startup guy? I don't understand why you have an issue with someone charging money for something they made.
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
I am sure that's true among economists and sociologists. To the layperson (me), the way I usually hear it from other normies and in media, GDP per capita is the metric that translates to QOL. Unless you are listening to Planet Money o
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> GDP growth is a positive metric, so economists want it to be positive. That's different from them wanting number to go up for the sake of numbers going up. Wanting something to go up for the sake of going up is how outsiders witho
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
I am not even saying that this is a bad point of view, but isn't the belief of most mainstream economists that GDP must grow each year? Also I am not a conspiracy theorist and I don't really have any beef with the WEF, but I mean
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> GDP per capita would effectively give you the same metric My point is that GDP per capita can increase because of reasons that don't necessarily make your life better. Working longer hours, or even an increase in productivity with
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
I think that what people mean, or think they mean, when they say "de-growth" is switching from pure GDP as a metric of standard of living, to a normalized GDP-per capita. Probably GDP per capita divided by hours of labor and also
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
My bad
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
This is so cool! I have been wanting to see something like this for a few years now. I tried making a demo of something similar (but much more primitive) in Unity back in 2021, but small transformers weren't good enough at the time. Is
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
I worked at a FAANG as a new grad because I thought it was the logical next step in the career of a software developer (money). I really don't understand the appeal. Was it once actually worth it? Even with the money and "prestige
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
Net Neutrality was one of the handful of things I wrote my representatives about. I knew it was going to be mostly fruitless, but goddamn this is disgusting.
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> Also Vanderbilt and Carnegie existed during a time of much higher taxation My bad, I was under the impression that the corporate tax rate was higher in the 1910s->1920s > Your engineering manager or CTO doesn't write code ye
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> What might be some ways to put governers on that? Probably some sort of cooperative ownership. If you could perfectly calculate the weighted contribution of every person, you would just divide ownership up by that number. A contributor
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
I have read "The Millionaire Next Door" and I mostly agree with its analysis of entrepreneurship and inter-generational wealth, it's hard to stay a millionaire. But I think these empirical studies are a bit silly when they de
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> Empirical evidence suggests that it's actually pretty hard to remain at the top of the leaderboard across many generations. I attempted to address this when I said: > Yes there is occasional disruption Also Vanderbilt and Carne
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
I can agree with this take. I think if the job can't exist after reasonable regulation is enacted, then it shouldn't exist.
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> The value is derived from the labor being done in the context of a system created by someone else. When property ownership is indefinite and transferrable between generations, then capital accumulation becomes about whoever did it firs
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> Modern computing is inconceivable without U.S. imperialism > Some technologies are class traitors, you could say. "Wanting a different future is stupid because the tools you use were made by people with different value systems&
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> But actually what will happen is that they will get automated and then have no job. I find this to be a lazy argument because the conclusion is that you should never try to improve your situation ever. Also the easy counter to this is
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> Similarly the current article. Expensive energy kills apparently, so what's the cheapest source of Winter heating? Wind powered heat pumps in well insulated homes? Probably not worth mentioning, just underline that without Russian
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
Propaganda != something I don't like It's propaganda because the primary goal of the economist is to convince you of something (that the status quo/neoliberalism should be enforced). Propaganda also doesn't mean nothing
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
There's plenty of propaganda for the other side, the difference is that it doesn't get posted to HN. I don't see the value of posting propaganda on HN. There is very little substance to this article. Propaganda doesn't m
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
The Economist doesn't do climate denial, they just do concern trolling wrt green energy. "Oh man look at how supply doesn't keep up with demand during the day" and they usually don't acknowledge that market incentiv
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> Like I don't get it, would it have been propaganda if they praised COVID measures or? Yes, I am pointing out their bias. There is plenty of propaganda on the other side, but people aren't posting articles from Mother Jones or
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
> No, that isn’t the case. The article did not try to imply that green energy is to blame. The point of this article was to reinforce the idea that cheap energy is important to a safe and stable society, which is true, but it ties into t
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
I am not sure if you've ever heard of Julian Jaynes, but you might be interested. His theory of the bicameral mind is pretty interesting. To bastardize it, the unconscious mind is a really good generalized searcher/pattern complet
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
Corporations depend on consumers for their existence. The value they are trying to maximize depends on a functioning supply chain and global economy. So corporations can't outright kill all humans. That symbiotic relationship and const
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, if you wanted to see the implication that this article was trying to solidify in people's heads, this comment is it.
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
I mostly find The Economist to be propaganda, for example they try to frame energy vs covid because they always want to disparage "green energy" and covid safety measures. That's their bias, I find it to be really grating but
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by green_man_lives 3y ago
I keep seeing more and more articles from The Economist reaching the top page and they're never good.
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
> Would it fair to say that racism has really largely been about classism? Please do some reading on the subject. Cursory reading on the history of labor unions, immigration in America, or literally any book on the US south that isn&#x27

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