Chrome is very fast on my 4.8Ghz Windows PC with literally hundreds of tabs open sometimes. Almost as fast as Waterfox. If it slows with a few tabs my guess would be the OS is swapping Chrome processes memory to the swap file (or files). FWIW I just put 32GiB in my machines and remove all swap files.
IMHO GDP, dollars, etc. have nothing to do with this problem. Currently there is a huge overproduction of food, clothes, shoes, etc. for the US citizen. All that huge ads industry is only there to force people to eat more, throw out their perfectly good clothes, shoes, cars, phones, etc. because of fashion. It's no problem really to meat the needs of additional people in case a basic income produces those.
Very interesting thoughts. IMHO the basic income will have the opposite effect. A business may currently be able to find a loo cleaning employee for $X/h, but with a basic income that rate will go to say $5X/h.
Getting a bank (i.e. money printing) license is probably the hardest thing to do in the developed world. The guys/families who got them must be the best adopted to the complexities of the modern society.
How about long turn demographics? There are racial and religious minorities, that have 12+ children in an average family. A basic income may help them grow even faster, leading to inevitable huge changes in the society.
> Marx then goes on to argue, that the capitalist class can more easily leverage its interests, and therefore the workers need class conscious to counter this leverage.
Do you have any objective arguments against this statement?
Yeah, right. And all the technical books on design patterns, functional programming, algorithms, etc. are out there just to teach programmers how to type faster ...
>> that's something else entirely, completely separate to what I'm discussing.
Aha I see. The NSA and Stasi are collecting vast amounts of data on everybody living in their countries. Data that was and will be abused to ruin innocent lives. But you prefer to discuss in this topic something "entirely, completely separate".
I personally use a commercial ad blocker - AdMuncher. Blocks more ads than ABP and I know I'm the customer, not Google. Only supports Windows unfortunately, but on Linux I run an XP VM and proxy through it.
I personally hate Chrome for creating a process per tab. It adds a little bit of security, but it makes harder to manage the processes in a system.