It’s just too bad the industrial revolution lead to capitalism overdrive. That would have been a great historical inflection point to switch over to socialism. I mean people tried, but they got murdered.

I can hear this

Yeah you can play with the numbers, and it all depends on the economic context.

I love your username. Is it meant to be a naughty bilingual pun?

POV you’re about to encounter a little ol’ Fate Worse Than Death

Me furiously taking post-apocalyptic worldbuilding notes from your comment 🫨🫨🫨

Me, imitating the pose of a thoughtful looking person I saw in a magazine: have we tried AI the line? Like make AI do the line, and me have more money? Need more money for AI implement line AI money make?

Also if the genie is a thinking agent or even just capable of detecting an infinite loop this falls apart.

I think it works for slightly more expensive things too. Like absent any noticeable difference we would assume that a $5 hotdog was better than a $2 hotdog.

You may be thinking of Veblen goods, which are marked up to such a degree that the high price point is the point of the purchase. It makes the product more exclusive.

Love that

Not completely safe there with Buddhism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence

I don’t have anything to back this up, but I wonder if there’s a strong correlation between a religion being minority in a region and how “peaceful” it is, because my suspicion is that majority/power of any kind will always come at the risk of attracting chuds or corrupting the fearful into protecting themselves by attacking others. Literally “others” I guess.

Pet hypothesis just held up by vibes though so

This and bike shedding.

the children do not hear the canon

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I thought for sure the article was pulling my leg when it got to that part

Re MFA, I’ve been using a hardware key and it’s so much better. I don’t need my phone for a single work related thing anymore, so I can just ignore it until breaks.

I was actually describing a piece of software, which is not considered a human being, and can in fact be treated differently without any legal or philosophical confusion

Wow that is a fuckin shitty week my friend, no sugar coating it. I’m glad you’re still taking some time to hang out on the lems tho. Always nice to see your username around :)

I mean it’s getting more academic for sure, but I think I get you - that’s one of them there intersections you were talking about (neoliberalism x ableism, maybe (to name just 2 anyway)).

EDIT thank you, that was fire. A cogent and succinct breakdown of offense vis a vis harm.

I don’t feel like I learned anything, because what I learned seems obvious (now), but if I think about my previous statements in this thread about rudeness they feel like they were made by someone else, so I guess this reading is doing something!

No you have to run them through an elaborate model first, then it’s totally legit to use someone else’s literal words as if they were your own