tryingtogetback

Maybe it's finally the time for private sector to step in?

Privately funded regional and/or local (HOA-funded) police departments that are immune to political games with funding that's independent from political trends. Private security startups must be working in this area, right?

Just take a look what amazon is doing to shipping industry, how well researched and optimized their deliveries are. Policing is no different (infinite potential for optimizations and innovations) given that private entities (not government) are managing it and (most importantly) are accountable for it.

I would disagree, it's all about time spent (one can argue wasted) It's a lot faster to "get", to understand well written code that uses natural language semantics regardless of the reader competency

Thank you for this reference, title of the article is merely an attempt to adapt/paraphrase a famous quote, it's not at all literal (absolutely no comments ever allowed)

It's a hyperbolization prop (frame from a classic movie where main character is as passionate about small things as an individual can get, to the point where it even looks ridiculous)

That is exactly what I'm saying. How many individuals are currently on welfare? Majority is living on and consuming the goods that were produced by highly-educated and successful people without children.

The further we, as a society, distance ourselves from basic, primitive instincts (like reproduction) the more advanced we become (which is not simple or easy at all, it requires significant cognitive effort (goals, deliberate education, atheism)

Most of the pleasures that you enjoy in modernity were delivered to you by high-functioning, educated adults without children, while your children have a very high chance of becoming consuming individuals who habitually take advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

This is a very backwards and dangerous view of the situation.

You are making a speculation that your children will become a high-functioning adults that will be capable to produce more than they consume.

Overpopulation (as a real danger to our planet) aside, people who are opting out from having children are statistically highly educated and more successful (produce order of magnitude more than they consume) meaning that goal and career oriented individuals are feeding your children at this very moment altruistically (without any guarantees of payback from your children when they reach adulthood).