But at least it was your own fault. Much easier to forgive yourself than a global kafkaesque system of greed-driven bureaucracy.

I never really understood the appeal of arranging severed plant genitals. Sure, it looks nice. But boobs also look nice, and I don’t cut them off and put them in a pretty bowl on my living room table.

I disagree. Everyone believes that people are greedy and their only goal in life is money hoarding. But if you ask them what their own goals are, getting filthy rich has very, very low priority.

If politicians are greedy, that’s because 1) to become a politician (in the USA), you already have to be rich, and 2) if politicians are paid lots of money, greedy people want to become politicians.

You don’t want to attract greedy assholes to represent you, but that’s exactly what you’re doing if you pay them too much. The people you do want to be politicians are those who aren’t interested in money.

He said the same thing a month ago: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmer-nicolas-stihl-35-stunden-woche-nicht-mehr-zeitgemaess-a-a69431e3-905a-4c8a-ba45-abdaa6dfceff

But I don’t get it. Wealth doesn’t really increase by working more. For skilled jobs, working longer means you are producing the same output in more time and feel worse. If you want to increase production, you need to invest in research and technology.

Hundreds of years ago, one farmer could feed a hand full of people, today it’s probably thousands, thanks to modern technology. If the farmers back then would work twice as much, they could still only feed a hand full of people, but they would probably die a lot sooner.

Can you explain what you mean exactly?

Doesn’t really matter because they still use the Linux kernel, which AFAIK allows LLM contributions.

If all the services suck, you could just not use any of them, like everyone did for literally millions of years. I don’t understand why supporting corporate neofascism is OK if their services are convenient.

The point of Uber is to make money. As long as businesses can make money by kicking you in the face, they will do it.

Could be bots or misclicks. I accidentally downvoted a comment just a few hours ago. It felt surprisingly bad even though I quickly fixed it.

Relevant sketch from A Bit of Fry & Laurie from ~30 years ago.