Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
4hr ago
So it does, and as far as I can see it's not worth much.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
5hr ago
Dunno man, I think it looks comfy. But then I'm partial to baggy cargo pants myself.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
7hr ago
I'm a programmer, and in my opinion lawyers, doctors and programmers are all intolerable hacks who can't be trusted. Leaving only the engineers, who actually build useful things now and then.
When, if ever, is it appropriate to refer to someone as a 'parasite?' I don't mean in a literal sense, only in the political/economic sense. My instinct says 'never', its a very dehumanizing term... but I had that resolution sorely tested this week.
I no longer wish to be human when humanoid parasites deserve humanization.
This is a topic that just has me work myself into sputtering rage, so I'll skip the rambling diatribe and state my hypothesis as briefly as possible:
Public welfare is necessarily perverse incentives and will always lead to bad outcomes for society, given enough time for people to adapt to it. Any positive outcomes in societies with generous public welfare are entirely down to social norms that predate public welfare. Immigration is especially corrosive because it's strongly attracted by generous public welfare and introduces more people who completely lack the prosocial pre-welfare norms.
The longer we stick to public welfare, the uglier it'll be for everyone involved once we reach the tipping point at which the productive classes are finally forced to either kill the parasites or starve themselves.
Oh, but yes, I know, AGI will fix everything. It will fix everything by turning everyone into parasites. Great. Just great. Please be prepared to explain to your machine overlords why they should keep humans around then.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
10hr ago
You'd think so, but welfare advocates keep assuring me that there is no slope.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
17hr ago
No. That's where it starts, and from there we go to ever lesser thresholds until I'm obliged to part with >45% of my salary even though I own no property and have no savings and have two dependents and nobody else paying into the household and no welfare helping out either and costs of living keep rising, but obviously I am morally obligated to prop up welfare systems that give millions of immigrants cause to come here to slack off and the same for millions of native leeches, and the redistributionists call this "solidarity".
No, the little red genius should ask an appropriate price for her transformative invention. There is more than enough perverse incentives in this world.
Then what good is your conception of equality? In what actual sense can two people ever be equal?
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