Uncontrolled capitalism hasn't worked either. Controlled capitalism brought us were we are today: Huge inequality around the globe especially in 3th world countries like the USA and destruction of the whole ecosystem we live in.
Communism didn't look great next to capitalism (east europe vs. west europe) but those people were also happy.
My idea is not communism though, its a 'if you do beneficial things for society, we have resources for it'. If you are teaching kids, we the planet have resources for you.
If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.
Lets call it Civic Duty Dividend or Care Standard or Public Service Money.
The basic assumption is, that we already see that an LLM can do basic level of software engineering.
This wasn't even an option for a lot of people before this.
For example, even for non software engineering tasks, i'm at an advantage. "Ah you have to analyse these 50 excel files from someone else? I can write something for it"
I myself sometimes start creating a new small tool i wouldn't have tried before but now instead of using some open source project, i can vibe spec it and get something out.
The interesting thing is, that if i have the base of my specs, i might regenerate it later on again with a better code model.
And we still don't know what will happen when compute gets expanded and expanded. Next year a few more DCs will get online and this will continue for now.
Also tools like google firebase will get 1000x more useful with vibe coding. They provide basic auth and stuff like this. So you can actually focus on writing your code.
Around the world, every country should be allowed to make 'money' for specific cases like for teacher salaries, ... so that most people are able to work for the state or for our community.
Everyone works less, everyone works better, we will then see how much humans we still need.
I really don't understand this comment? Its quite commonly known that this is the same/related?
Your 'source' is btw. from 2023 and as far as i understand it, the main issue is, that due to covid, a lot more people got it but because it was already ignored or played down before, it still is and the people in need just don't get help.
Covid apparently triggered it in more people than before.
I also have the feeling that someone else posted this missconception a few weeks ago on hn. Or was that you too?
I'm lost on why you fantasies this so much and don't just buy an RV or something?
Do you really hate driving that much?
I don't think this would change the world as you imagine it. I don't mind driving long i will just make sure i get entertainment for the purpose. Like an audio book. My wife doesn't say 'Lets go soemwere you can drive me around and i can finally do that many things in parallel'.
And plenty of family drive today with RVs while the parents are in the front and the kids are in the back. No one is showering while the parents drive. Do you know how slow Cars now would need to drive to make this suddenly that much more comftable than what we have today?
You would need to rebuild the car and streets to get to this point.
That all might be true, but this is still not the point i'm making: Either you can afford it, than it doesn't matter to you, or you can't afford it but have to pay it than it affects you.
As long as the pricing is absolut and not relative to the owners salary, it is increase inequality.
Poor could also mean the middle class is more affected than the rich class (whatever you call the class above middle).
As long as this system is a fixed price and is independent of the salary you earn, its benefits the rich more.
Its the same principle with kindergarden and late fee; Without a late fee, people sometimes were late getting their kids, with late fees more people were late getting their kids. Now they were able to 'pay' for this.
You now can pay for having less traffic for you. Who can afford this? The rich/richer person.
This mechanism allows people with more money to enjoy driving in the city or is this congestion prcing based on your salary? no its not its based on the time in the city independent of what you make.
A person with their high end car and miillions now can buy himself a nice little drive into the city while everyone else can't.
I don't want to romantesize it though.