Why even have furniture, you can eat and sleep on the floor. Financially and practically.
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There's stock market bros, kill people bros, government welfare bros and some mega business bros.
None of them want to know anything beyond my kids go to private school, get nepo baby job.
This is what humans are capable of - not just in USA, as a species. USA's 'plan' or rather inevitability is to fall apart. China will be the next power and it'll also fall apart, like USSR fell apart and USA is falling apart for the world to see.
Maybe in another few thousand years it'll be different, I doubt it. Read Plato's Republic you're above 140 IQ - it spells it all out so nicely that one you grok it, you need not know much of anything else regarding politics.
It's a must read for 0.001% of the population.
Stop with the MBA playbook he said.
> just make the...
Just make a superior product he said.
It's not the root however. The root is nepotism. What you're describing is one of ten thousand problems nepotism causes.
When your argument boils down to discussing fantasies in a fantasy world, you have a bright future as an economist indeed.
> Yet what is the result, the gain to humanity, of this wonderfully regulated society which has been built solely to make life richer? Millions are on the verge of starvation, hundreds of thousands are spending their lives in producing instruments for the destruction of human life, and millions again are wasting their existence in a dull tragedy of monotony. In every great industrial centre where wealth is most plentifully produced, there is poverty and want. In the rich town where no production is carried on, there is plenty and enjoyment. He who labours hard or produces wealth is in poverty, he who lives in idleness is rich. When the warehouses are full, there is want and hunger. Those without food are forbidden to produce because the demand is already supplied. [0]
I highlighted the part that relates to Palantir and most everyone on here reading HN (except you, of course, you're special :))
Which is to say this is nothing new and discussing the minutia of did this specific company do this specific thing when the system that makes this inevitable remains unaddressed is missing the point.
Oh well, politics for 99% of people seems to amount to gossip. Did you hear what X said/did? Oh my god, I can't believe it, etc, etc.
[0] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-barrett-the-a...
Very funny and on the nose :)
Western culture is a mental issue beyond repair. It will soon be gone and it will not be missed.
Where is it better? Who treats slaves better than I do, they'd say.
Western society would cease to exist if it didn't continue its diabolical lies, falsehoods and abuse. The lies are not optional.
It is because of pragmatic regard for survival of the status quo that the lies do continue. That word 'pragmatic' is what keeps diabolical people from seeing themselves for what they are.
Isn't this simply the answer?
That what's going on is gaslighting of the public and that there are people behind the scenes and they don't want hoi polloi to know what they're up to?
This geo-politics (or politics) talk is 'intellectual' men's astrology.
When a woman asks me my astrological sign, I know she's a deeply unserious person. When a man says 'do they have a reliable supply of food and energy'...
The most revealing example of this was when I found out how many of UK's 'elite' school children were molested, grew up and proceeded to do everything they can to make sure their children attend these very same 'elite' schools.
Western culture is beyond repair.
The root problem is nepo babies.
Whether it's capitalism or communism or whatever China has currently - it's all people doing everything to give their own children every unfair advantage and lie about it.
Why did people flee to America from Europe? Because Europe was nepo baby land.
Now America is nepo baby land and very soon China will be nepo baby land.
It's all rather simple. Western 'culture' is convincing everyone the nepo babies running things are actually uber experts because they attended university. Lol.
Every day is a new chance to re-examine what you most care about and make some surprising discoveries.
Or not :)
This fantasy of free markets, laws, branches or anything else solving what Plato wrote about in The Republic thousands of years ago is pure folly.
If it is of any comfort - it's always been this way and it's not going to get any better :) We have technological progress, not progress in wisdom. People are better behaved because well fed humans behave better than hungry humans - everything else is as it's always been.
A 32 hour work week was suggested by USA politicians almost a century ago. Read that again - a century ago.
You're trying to reduce complex human issues to a single metric of input vs output. I struggle to convey why this is um, not smart without being insulting.
You misunderstand what the elites do. They prevent change because the status quo has been setup by their parents and grand-parents to benefit them at the expense of everyone else already.
They are not agents of change, they are agents of preventing change.
> This essay is pompous
Pompous he said.
If you don't want to live alone - you will be living a marketing campaign.
Part of keeping old sick people alive is generic antibiotics.
Therefore, we will continue to have them.
It has nothing to do with what people who have no power think, feel or do.
Decreasing big pharma's quarterly profits is not an easy sell, you mean?
Or are we supposed to pretend any of this has to do with concern over people's well being?
You do have the option to spend your time elsewhere - if you can handle every NPC friend and family member thinking you've lost your mind when you quit that cushy corporate gig and go work a low status, low pay job in peace and quiet - something like a night time security guard.
Try to quickly become a drug dealer and cash in.
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Chef's kiss. I'd like to thank people like you for where we are.
But it'll be totally different in the next generation. Trust me, bro, I'm rich - so I must know what I'm talking about.