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by sgu999 3y ago
You didn't read my comment did you. I gave you pointers with other reasons why the economy may not be thriving, if that's even the true for Finland. You have many counter-examples of countries doing fine with a welfare state, bu
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"young, talented and ambitious" seems like a rather small portion of the population of a country
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> One thing I care about as a Swedish engineer is interesting work on the forefront of technology. Do you have concrete examples? I can imagine that if you're working on avionics Sweden might not be the best place, but otherwise it
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Unless you're already a millionaire, you should be happy to live in Finland and not in a more "flexible" economy like the US. No public healthcare, guns everywhere, no workers rights... No thanks. I'll take the much lowe
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> I can't imagine what it would be like at 100 if I make it that far. The few elderly I know of who approached that age and were reflective enough told me they just ended up letting go. And they were actually happier. Being sufficie
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> Really, it's just bewildering to me that having a death wish is considered common-sense, normal viewpoint. I wonder if being selfless in that sense is not actually the "norm" when we consider most of the people who live
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They do the same, and I trust them...
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> That's kind of the exact opposite of people's goals in this situation. It depends on whether their goal is averaged convenience in the long term. In my opinion, having to deal with this crap always ends up offsetting not havi
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> 1. My wife can check that we didn't forget to close it instead of driving 20 minutes back home to quell her nerves. Seems like a bit of an ill-adaptation. I used to want a smart door lock for exactly this reason, but instead I lea
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> the younger generation is usually the one to virtue signal about the environment, equity, labor conditions, capitalism etc., but none of that matters when you can get "cheap stuff for cheap". I really doubt these are the same
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What an absolute disgrace this is, true evil people. If it weren't for the environmental cost, remains the exploitive practices, and how it brainwashes millions of people into thinking that a piece of clothing barely has a value.
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> we have to be tougher on the execs Yes, but what if the exec's cousin's wife is playing golf with the chief of staff of the minister of the economy? Can't be tougher on this one, sorry.
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Companies are people, and many people don't like to give others what they didn't have. They wasted time commuting to reach the top of the corporate ladder, you will too. They also like to show you that they have prettier shoes and
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> those teachers too were probably doing their best, and making mistakes, as we all do Some people are simply arseholes or incompetent and others have unresolved issues. Compassion and empathy are important, but I don't think we sho
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It is interesting to note that even the KMT is (overall) not seeking reunification with China, nor is the DPP seeking official recognition of Taiwan as an independent country at the expense of peace. What seems to be a consensus here is tha
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> A parent that cares for a disabled child is only a failure as long as he does not want to do it but has to. In this case he is not only a failure but a horrible person. > I volunteer to care for old people 1h per month I'm sorr
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I think it's feasible in some cases but isn't in others. Here in France for instance a lot of seasonal workers are in the ski resorts during the winter and along the shores during the summer. It suits only a certain category of wo
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> That you don't like that is a different topic. Where did I write that, exactly?
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> So are you suggesting they No, I only answered to the previous commenter who wrote that management can't predict the future. They knew it was coming, and increasing temporarily the headcount was their plan.
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> you might as well say management must be able to see the future. Arguably they can't have ignored that a surge this big would be temporary... It's not like we suddenly discovered a massive amount of resources at our disposal
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> If you are not living the life you want then you are a failure. What a rude and profoundly dumb statement. Are all the ones who bust their arses out of necessity failures or do they simply want to endure pain? Caring for a handicapped
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France is "temporarily" allowing exactly this kind of systems in Paris for the Olympics. How does the AI act bans "explicitly" this?
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Oh, very nice. I had no idea this was possible. I would be concerned about privacy though...
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I think you should. It only make sense that large enough entities run their own instance, they don't even have to self host it. I always found it strange that no serious professional would use an @gmail.com email but somehow publishing
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Did I prescribe anything in that regard? What does it make you, to think that you are entitled to anything you want regardless of resources limits and collective good?
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We don't have a fully globalised culture yet, what an average American wants isn't what an average Japanese wants. Of course even then, there are disparities and outliers, but we can't really overlook that if you "want&q
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I don't think GDP per capita is meaningful for discussing this, precisely because of the "allocation and efficiency problem" you pointed. It's convenient to measure whether food production would theoretically be enough:
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I'll reply anyway ;D We didn't manage to have an apparent state of abundance with slavery, which is arguably the finest of our exploitive practices. We do manage to have a state of abundance because of the ubiquity of cheap sourc
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> People don't want to live at the subsistence level, and we're not evenly remotely close to having enough resources to satisfy everybody's wants. What people want is defined by society. Somehow some people want to be alon
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We are already in a post-scarcity world, we have been for decades. The problem is inequalities and the inefficiency of how we use the resources, it doesn't look like we'll change that soon, sadly. I'm more prone to think that

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