https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

I feel as though money is the lifeblood of society, and I feel when you debase it and squander it people become poorer. Those who horde finite assets become very rich, and real estate gets bid up as an inflation hedge, the currency debasement I believe is the reason we are getting poorer.

Hrmmmmmm…

Well it must have done so at some point, thats the main difference between first world countries and third world.

Well there was a great society program in the 60’s that ran up debt, by do-gooders who didnt properly fund their ambitions.

Society needs to learn that we need to actually tax the rich and run low deficits if we want to spend big on social programs.

They’re billionaires because of monetary policy, Elon Musk and Tesla wouldnt be worth so much if inflation didnt reward risky assets and provide an unlimited runway to profitability. We bid up asset prices until prices rise 2% a year; prices that exclude assets like housing, subjective hedonic downward adjustments of goods prices, and substitutions/shrinkflation.

Blame the rich if you want, I blame the unelected central bank thats debasing your paycheck with 7% annual money supply growth, QE, and bailouts. If the money supply didnt grow every year you wouldnt need to beg your boss for a cost of living adjustment that doesnt match reality. Our parents ate free range grass fed meat, we eat corn fed factory farm troglodytes, and our children will eat highly processed imitation meat slop, and the CPI will mark no difference between the three.

Its also true that more efficient businesses increases living standards.

I’m not sure AI will ever replace truly skilled labor, because it hallucinates. It replaces people who make PowerPoint’s or Excel documents.

Was it sad when people who looked after horses were made obsolete when we began mass producing cars?

Or people who stoked furnaces?

This romanization of monotonous jobs is silly, and sounds like it wants to thrust us into poverty for some idealistic fantasy that excludes productivity gains. It also seems unrealistic, you cant trust code written by a programmer that randomly hallucinates and cant reliably check their work or explain what they even did.

I just don’t believe the rationale, there is no way threads or even Bluesky match X, its clearly political.

Take the high road and go to open platforms, just don’t lie about why youre supporting the other shitty platforms that censor.

Well I have to just assume given they support the other platforms.

Thundermail seems cool at least, as an encrypted email service.

Why leave X but stay on Facebook, Insta, bluesky, youtube, linkedin, ticktock, and threads?

This is clearly political, they clearly love censorship, they clearly just didnt like when it wasnt censored in the ways they wanted.

Your government needs to just build whole country nuclear and stop its other spending, once you’ve got cheap abundant energy then its inevitable.

Theres an open source ebook called the PineNote, for those that dont want proprietary software shutting you down.

https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/

All that computing power and all we got was slower software and a hallucinating chatbot.

At least I can game on Linux now, thats some real progress.

Why even repeal the second amendment, is it just to alienate right leaning voters in order to lose the election?

You guys literally wrote the book on Orwellian governments.

He believes in universal healthcare and progressive social programs, he just says most dont actually get to the people. He doesnt believe in geyser spending like the far left of today, where lefties of today want infinite programs like a shotgun, instead of a far more progressive tax structure that can meet peoples real needs more directly; for things like paying for the growing cost of shelter thats being ignored.

The problem is Japan doesnt refine any materials while China refines all the materials, and electric vehicles are relatively simple relative to combustion engines so theres less barrier to entry. The largest barrier is the battery, which is also manufactured in China.

I dont know about anyone else but basic things like windows search, windows update, excel, etc… has always been buggy. I always find it strange people saying this is a new phenomenon, I actually think most things regressed from XP outside of UAC.