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Personally I prefer to be around people who are friendly because they genuinely want to be rather than because I am paying them to fake it.

I am not involved in suckless, but who is this "they" you are talking about? This is one individual whose only connection to suckless appears to have been starting 2 threads about surf in 2017?

https://lists.suckless.org/dev/author.html

ctrl f "enrico"

Not everything needs to be about money. Software engineers get pretty absurd salaries already. Most of the high quality blogs I’ve seen are pro bono.

> The "left" elites have forgotten the people, and the left in general is talking more about identity issues than class issues.

You mention this in a discussion about Bernie Sanders? Probably the politician with the most single-minded focus on class politics in the country

From your search, which contradicts your point:

https://apexlg.com/are-the-managers-of-traditional-corporati...

> you have to care about them making a profit or watch them evaporate.

There is a difference between making a profit and maximizing profit. A publicly traded company is legally bound to do the latter.

Bitcoin is not predominantly mined by a ton of individuals running an ASIC or 2. It is mined in huge warehouses, which have to go through state/federal bureaucracy for business licenses, etc etc. It would be hard to enforce a complete ban on anyone mining any Bitcoin, but the vast, vast majority of mining could be easily shut down in the US, as it was in China.

I’d be interested in what tech companies pay $320k and aren’t ethically dubious

> China did well after adopting a capitalist economic model. Not so well after adopting a communist economic model.

Let's be clear here -- regardless what you think of the Chinese government, they are far from a "capitalist economic model". Many major industries are nationalized, the state plays an enormous role in the economy. 60% of their economy by market cap is state-owned. It isn't Soviet-style or Mao-era socialism, but it is still a very different system than western capitalism. It's similar to the NEP era in the USSR (1921-1928)

Public housing increases supply. That's why I said rent control and public housing.

"A culture of permissive lawlessness"? A studio apartment in San Francisco starts at what, $2k?

> Mr Shellenberger thinks they are on the streets in part because of a “housing-first” approach, which holds out for permanent, individual homes at the expense of building enough temporary accommodation.

So his approach is that San Francisco should have third world-style slums?

The solutions are simple: rent control and public housing. There just isn't political will for these policies: wealthy real estate investors fight them tooth and nail.

> SpaceX would not exist without inequality. Nor that supercomputer in your pocket.

Neither would exist without massive government-led taxpayer-funded investments, made during an era when inequality was far lower than it is today.