yeah i remember how shocked i was recently when i told somebody “the farmers don’t grow food, the plants grow food”. and they responded with “yeah but that’s their fate. plants literally exist to be eaten” and i was like “what if you said that about people? some people literally exist to be enslaved?”

point is, we treat nature with no respect about how it feels. this goes for plants but also other animals. it’s quite weird if you think about it. anyways, this discussion is getting weird.

i would agree with you if anyone actually used a sane definition of what “political right” meant. i don’t really see that happening today so i have difficulty agreeing with you.

but yes.

good. the sooner they go, the better

so i was just walking to the nearest supermarket when the supermarket radio (they usually play music) calmly announced “for the next week, we expect a warm 35°C” … wtf

you are an economist. eliminating zoning laws and HOAs would make construction of houses cheaper, saving lots of people lots of money, but the construction companies would be less profitable. do you argue in favor of unnecessarily complex building codes sothat the company stays profitable at the expense of the population?

literally cooking there

but it’s true. what do we care about other people’s decisions as long as they don’t affect us

you posted this article twice. delete this one and keep the other one.

Price lowers and it increases demand

price lowers and it increases quantity. demand is a curve and you only measure a single point of it.

eh, money is supposed to represent resources, and saying that money = hours, is to say that there is no other resource besides human labor. there is land usage, plant growth, mineralic reservoirs, etc.

ah shit i have the perfect meme for this but i can’t find it.

it’s a boot (microsoft, apple, etc.) and the snake exclaims “at least it isn’t the goberment”

how do you know that the books aren’t mind-washing by the CIA?

you can stop in many models by letting the hot air out (partially)

yeah but what if it isn’t called “hours”?

eh idk, i had difficulty finding exact numbers. apparently the napoleonic wars did have wide consequences but not so much because of the number of people that died in them but because they basically pushed very severely the modernization of all states in europe, which then caused a whole lot of things to happen rather quickly.

yeah that’s not what i meant. phylogenetic trees are constructed by considering the genetics of recent (living) species, not from fossils.

yeah, real artists express their emotion, which is depression

this doesn’t really have anything to do with “work”, therefore it’s questionable whether it belongs in the “work reform” community. anyways, it’s a good post, with a good point.

it’s quite clear that we need tax reforms. the current system works for no-one anymore, not even for the rich. the stock market is a bubble only waiting to burst, and everybody’s well aware of it. the economy, the way it is today, is absolutely not sustainable. people are getting poorer, due to not having jobs, or rather the jobs pay like shit (bullshit pay for bullshit jobs) because the jobs aren’t fundamentally important to the economy. there’s a declining labor market because there’s not so many new inventions compared to 1900 when stuff was new and hot. (consider that the electric grid was literally invented around 1900, there’s an interesting chapter of history there, current wars). that’s why the labor market is cooling down.

i advocate for spaceflight partially because it would create jobs. also waging wars would create jobs but deeply unpopular so nobody wants to do that. so jobs will still be lost, and can only be partially replaced. we need a universal basic income or sth similar to give people enough resources to live. we need to start writing policy proposals for that. i propose the following fields should be covered and provided for by state-run services somehow:

• water, food, healthcare
• housing
• transport
• energy
• IT, telecommunication, education

there are 3 sources of energy on the surface of earth:

• energy from inside earth (geological heat)
• energy from the moon (tides can make water go up and down -> generates energy)
• energy from the sun (and hypothetically, other stars)

so, the thing is that earth’s internal heat generates 0.03% of the energy on the surface of Earth (source) while i couldn’t find any numbers for the moon (so i guess it’s too low to mention). so basically everything comes from the sun.

and this is true for living beings. living beings can live off the sun’s energy (photosynthesis) or they don’t, in which case they’re utilizing Earth’s internal processes (volcanoes, …) as an energy source.

basically all life was dependent on energy from inside the Earth before photosynthesis was developed, which is severely restricted. this is why this is such a big breakthrough.