Open information; music, books, code, science, videos; threatens their entire business model.
Not content to physically own the planet, they seek to own our emotions through expropriation of our agency in all contexts.
It’s a managed economy of legal allowances, policed by an unelected minority beholden to no one. Hmm… where have I seen this before? No one saw it coming!
Tax the billionaires until they’re merely mega millionaires; their figurative identity obsession is not any more important than rest of ours, except due to political protectionism. Our doing human shit empowers these specific people; they can lose an order of magnitude in wealth to honor that.
As a result we’d be able to bolster health, education, and infrastructure everyone relies on. Deference to their wealth literally causes us to screw ourselves out of the time for such things.
Yeah exactly; the stats are made up since the state induces snitching over petty nonsense to meet quotas, and earn trust of snitches for the times they’re actually useful.
Statistical achievement is a hollow basis for social organization.
Having seen 100s of high def birds, mountains, weddings, even pro photos are pretty repetitive.
These say interpretive art to me more than every pixel of yet another nature shot, or airbrushed person. They make my imagination curious about the world within.
When all the details are there just as they would be outside, why not just go outside?
Surely a lot of these “behaviors observed after X hours of Y” studies are subjective to the researchers and broader social opinions on what “normal” is.
I don’t disagree on the monetization part, but daily life is an implicit game of risk avoidance. We are cognitively tuned to play a cognitive simulation.
My hesitancy is social belief we all must be on board with playing “the real world” simulation as dictated by traditional political beliefs, which heavily influence which studies get funded.
Maybe utilitarian day jobs aren’t the only busy work we should expect of each other.
Frankly as a social scene, I’d rather people argue over DND rules than how much profit they can make if more people went hungry or died rather than get their insurance benefits they paid for.
Perhaps the behavioral economics math we use to advertise and market tribal belief in our teams superior product or service should be set aside to let folks navigate the sim as they wish and real economic activity must adjust to satisfy that?
Social norms have always followed technology. Maybe the perspectives we apply are no longer correct in this contemporary time.
I’ve just interviewed at 4 places. None had technical recruiters; I was contacted and went through the process with the hiring manager.
Same nonsense though; here’s some random leetcode problem; sure our company hasn’t made anything novel or proven itself in the market but we Googled how to do a tech interview and this is what we found.
Getting a job is hard because people are lazy. They’re just regurgitating what popular companies are doing, whether it’s good for them or not.
There’s a perfectly legal mechanism for exerting pressure.
We’re too cowardly to do it, while we watch every other tribe cross all the uncrossable lines.
The reason the rich win is because they stick together. The public is taught to be atomic agents.
These people are gifted their wealth through public deference by preying on traditional fears.
The reality is it’s a bunch of typical humans. We can just … not work for them.