beguiledfoil

>word soup would be a sentence that doesn't even parse

I use it to describe sentences where I can jumble up all the adjectives and get the same meaning - a meaning which is so vague that people can just interpret the sentence as something that conveniently agrees with their prior convictions

>Ideally, those industries are _generative_. That means they are primarily involved in production (of raw materials, of manufactured goods, of energy).

Your prior conviction is that new stuff is needed and intrinsically good. I am not so bold as to hold such a conviction. Maybe people simply need to be enabled to do more with less.

>but I can't imagine that there is a reasonable economic case to be made for it

Median net worth of a retiree is $210,000. Many have saved for care in retirement and therefore will be able to 'demand' it in the market. And I don't believe that includes income from Social Security (which is just a forced savings plan).

>It seems to me that what is needed is alternative industries that are booming because they create new economic opportunities in a generative fashion.

This is word soup.

Excited to see the worst parts of agile (aka the parts you can use to interrupt the hard work of planning and research) ruin projects outside of tech.

so scientific. sorry. i'll run ads on breitbart now. convinced by your link that it won't destroy my brand.

First they refused to advertise on the racist site, and I did not speak up because I did not believe in a right to advertising revenue.

The libertarian solution is appeal to a higher authority? Is this one of those turtles things?

Having lived in jurisdictions that limit annual rent increases via a rental index and jurisdictions that do not, I prefer the former. In America such action is dismissed as a price control, unfortunately for me.

>In languages such as C++ or C#, this is an easily solved problem. You create an abstract class or a base class depending on language and inherit that in your actual class.

Oh cool an anti-pattern being described as an "easy solution".

Today you learned about the transcendentals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentals

>At least you have the insight to realise your opinion is "entirely qualitative" (i.e. entirely emotional)

Pity it's not shared.

> I'm a former Seattlite millennial who's lived through the 2008 financial crash, the repercussions of a 50% divorce rate, and grew up on the internet.

Oh. Poor baby :(

FWIW I'm a millennial that lives in a 600 sqft apartment and has never owned a car. I just don't think that it's justifiable to rewrite zoning laws to achieve my weird goals of absolute independence.

>It's true tiny apartments won't fix being surrounded by lakes, but if 1800 more people can afford to live where, and how, they want... Isn't that a start?

I think it's a meaningless drop in the bucket and a wasted opportunity. You don't build shit that you don't want around for at least 30 years, and preferably 100.