rcates · HackerTrans

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I know I'm focusing on one small part of your post - but don't forget that guaranteed income could enable folks to live in places with very low cost of living, but little to no economy where that wasn't previously possible for them without guaranteed income

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Yeah I'm in the same boat even with just one roku

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I guess what I'm saying is: if we need an app to remind us to call family, maybe there's a larger problem at hand.

Book 4 of the Pendragon series (The Reality Bug) comes to mind. That was a formative book in my young adulthood.

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I am sad to agree with you. We in tech love to believe - with our inflated egos due to recent successes improving the world - that every problem is solved through more tech. I think we need to watch tech fail to solve some problems and experience that failure first hand to really believe that some problems are rooted in culture and social norms, not in a lack of guidance or convenience from some app.

I feel like we've lost connection and patience for each other from lack of practicing empathy. More technology is not the answer to that. I hope we find an equilibrium where we move past such an infatuation with tech that we let it be the right amount of a participant in our lives and place more of an emphasis on the human experience and condition and value our humanity first.

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I can totally relate to the future me being a cocky asshole part. I just had this experience coding the other day. I got about 15 minutes in thinking "this will be way better", git mv'ing files and committing etc until I ran into the exact same roadblock and it all came back to me. Now there is a sheepish trail of commits with messages explaining why I was wrong and it wasn't way better. I could have force pushed the commit before I started the changes but I wanted to shame myself so maybe I'll remember next time...

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