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I feel as though money is the lifeblood of society, and I feel when you debase it and squander it people become poorer. Those who horde finite assets become very rich, and real estate gets bid up as an inflation hedge, the currency debasement I believe is the reason we are getting poorer.

Well it must have done so at some point, thats the main difference between first world countries and third world.

Its also true that more efficient businesses increases living standards.

I’m not sure AI will ever replace truly skilled labor, because it hallucinates. It replaces people who make PowerPoint’s or Excel documents.

Was it sad when people who looked after horses were made obsolete when we began mass producing cars?

Or people who stoked furnaces?

This romanization of monotonous jobs is silly, and sounds like it wants to thrust us into poverty for some idealistic fantasy that excludes productivity gains. It also seems unrealistic, you cant trust code written by a programmer that randomly hallucinates and cant reliably check their work or explain what they even did.

I just don’t believe the rationale, there is no way threads or even Bluesky match X, its clearly political.

Take the high road and go to open platforms, just don’t lie about why youre supporting the other shitty platforms that censor.

Well I have to just assume given they support the other platforms.

Thundermail seems cool at least, as an encrypted email service.

Why leave X but stay on Facebook, Insta, bluesky, youtube, linkedin, ticktock, and threads?

This is clearly political, they clearly love censorship, they clearly just didnt like when it wasnt censored in the ways they wanted.

Your government needs to just build whole country nuclear and stop its other spending, once you’ve got cheap abundant energy then its inevitable.

You guys literally wrote the book on Orwellian governments.

The problem is Japan doesnt refine any materials while China refines all the materials, and electric vehicles are relatively simple relative to combustion engines so theres less barrier to entry. The largest barrier is the battery, which is also manufactured in China.

I dont know about anyone else but basic things like windows search, windows update, excel, etc… has always been buggy. I always find it strange people saying this is a new phenomenon, I actually think most things regressed from XP outside of UAC.

Holy shit its about time. Using these shitty adapters is annoying.

Stallman only eats open sores.

I pray this happens.

The rapings will continue until profits materialize.

No, but through a lens of your salary being debased it could be far cheaper than we perceive. If you were retired and live off an equity portfolio it would be far cheaper for you.

Three steaks where I live are now 60$ from a supermarket, I think many people underestimate the general inflation of goods prices as well. When youre measuring things in dollars its going to be a bad experience, if you measure in gold or some other commodity its actually getting cheaper.

Steam is able to play most Windows games now via Proton. You can wipe out the cancer that is data mining you and feeding all your porn habits to the US government.