I remember going to Disney Epcot Center as a kid and it showed how we would be living on the ocean floor by the year 2000. That is what I consider wild.
If you told me as a kid that I will go my whole life without owning a robot and that the main difference is we will replace a rotary phone with a hand held phone I would want my money back.
I guess poor Christa McAuliffe has been totally forgot about also.
Wages and prices are relative and there is always going to be groups of people at the bottom that are not going to have capital to invest.
So what? What is your point? There is no way around this fact. Of course this does not apply to them but so what? You must think this can somehow not be the case to even mention it.
Of course you are not going to get to financial freedom making the lowest wage possible? So what?
I use to rollerblade in the 90s. I never heard of this at the time I couldn't have possibly cared less if I had.
IMO the problem is I rollerbladed for 3 years and I never learned to stop properly. I basically had to fall on grass or cruise. IMO it died because it wasn't a good hobby for the average person. A skateboard doesn't have a speed problem like rollerblades. A bike has nice easy breaking system.
It was a giant 90s fad that was not a good idea for the average person. I loved them and wouldn't even consider getting a pair now based on the almost certainty of taking a massive spill.
The article talking about Tether:
"don’t be surprised when the Federal Reserve comes to its rescue."
This is completely delusional. As if the Fed is going to hold Tether on its balance sheet to stabilize the price in some crisis event? The lack of correlation with the broader markets is because of all these crypto Three-card Monte games happening that make the space seem much larger than it is. "500 billion" gets shaved off the "market cap" and the broader markets don't even notice.
Their marketing was starting to get to me as far as being the privacy company. I was really considering buying my first iphone. They had to know they were throwing all that marketing/effort down the drain.
There is no way they are going back on this. They will just wait out the collective short term memory to move on to something else. In a year this will just be normal. In 5 years all the other things that have been added to scan for will also just be normal.
For me, I am old and just accept we will live in an ever growing dystopian surveillance state. I am so grateful I was able to live my youth the way it was. If you are young? Yea, I have no answers.
May you live in interesting times? At least we have that going for us.
In the US at least though I believe zoning is the issue.
Our zoning laws are so bad and it is so hard to add to supply that no one really bothers much.
There are all kinds of dislocations in the market because what you should see right now is massive amounts of home building but you do not. 15 minutes away from me there is a ton of open land that could practically be built into a entire new town. I would imagine the larger the project the more bullshit you have to deal with when it comes to permits, zoning, political pushback, palms that need grease.
If you compare the work, risk/reward to alternative investments like just holding the stock market index it becomes a bad investment so it doesn't get made.
We have all these self reinforcing distortions happening in the market that probably can't be fixed.
I am fully vaccinated and will get a booster as soon as offered but even I am so sick of people preaching about this.
You do your part individually and that is the best you can do. All you are doing when you post something like this is causing a visceral reaction in the people that need to get vaccinated of "fuck you internet guy, I am not listening to you, I am not getting vaccinate!"
The people I know that are not vaccinated are this exactly. They are so pig headed that if you preach at them they will dig in their heals and do the opposite almost automatically.
We need people to just shut up about this already and dial everything back so it is not some admission of defeat for pig headed people who haven't got the vaccine to actually do so.
I am a life long lover of philosophy but the idea of spending $50k+ on a philosophy degree is utterly ridiculous to me.
You have your whole life to read, study and think about philosophy. It is easy, it is enjoyable, all the material is readily available.
I would almost view having a fresh recent philosophy degree as a huge negative in the 2020s. I would not hire someone with a recent philosophy degree almost point blank because IMO your decision making is highly suspect.
In the words of Neil Postman "What problem is this technology trying to solve??"
I just don't get it. How much easier do you need it to be than to hand someone an ID card?
The trade offs being made here for the ever slightest convenience make absolute no sense to me.
It is this weird technological addiction to novelty even when there is basically no value or even difference. The only gain is that it is new and novel.
Not me. To me, what this article is describing is just poor mental health.
On the other hand, I grew up in a nice middle class family but a family that was basically trivial to do better than.
Maybe things would be different if I had a chip on my shoulder from growing up dirt poor or a chip on my shoulder from an ultra successful parent that is almost impossible to live up to.
I have been going into the office when I could work remote.
I don't feel like it is a motivation thing. I was just sick of being home all the time.
I think many people on my team are not doing well mental health wise from being at home so much.
The most miserable people I know are a few software engineers that have been working remote for years making great money. One guy I know works at night because he can. Sleeps to 2pm. Basically, never leaves the house for anything. Seems unable to connect though that being a total shut in is why he is not happy even though he is killing it objectively. Practically hiding from the world in a nice house.
What has been good for my mental health is getting up and actually having to get dressed in the morning. Actually have to get out of the house at a specific time. Seeing people at the office in person. Saying good morning to the security people.
Using a fitbit my friend noticed that by 10am they had already done the equivalent of a 20 min walk step wise just going to the office. At home, basically nothing. If you work at home you practically have to do a 90 min walk a day to get enough steps in. Good luck as your conditioning gets worse and worse trying to be happy.
You would almost think there were people on the margin that could not afford an apartment that now can?
As if we could have ever predicted this shocking turn of events.