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- Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? 1 day ago:
Supply and Demand
American manufacturers say they are struggling to fill the jobs they already have.
That means there’s a demand for workers that is bigger than the supply, so as a consequence, the price for labor (aka. wages) should rise. If it does not, the demand was fake.
- Comment on DIN sagt geht klar 2 days ago:
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 2 days ago:
but there is no real monetary incentive right now.
dude, solar energy is literally the cheapest form of energy right now. there is a real monetary incentive.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 days ago:
i’d like to be a labor leader, but i’m not (yet). Yet here’s my opinion:
Knowledge was meant to be free since the beginning. I look at ideas as human-cultivated, carefully cultured viruses. They’re packages of information that live within a host.
They’re a lot less aggressive than their feral counterparts, but they’re still individual beings who want to spread. Holding back knowledge is unnatural, and the internet should be free.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 2 days ago:
damn Ubuntu Satanic Edition sounds cool.
- Comment on if pure water is not conductive why would condensation be an issue for electronics? 3 days ago:
Water dissociates in the presence of electrical voltage into hydrogen and oxygen, and that makes it somewhat conductive (due to ionisation).
The bigger problem however is corrosion. Said oxygen causes corrosion.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 3 days ago:
I think it doesn’t actually matter what distro you use.
It’s like whether you’re wearing red socks or blue socks. As long as you’re wearing socks, so you don’t get cold, any will do.
- Comment on Gig Companies Violate Workers’ Rights: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber claim to offer workers flexibility but end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages. 3 days ago:
No shit sherlock.
But the decline in real (inflation-adjusted) wages is a broader phenomenon and not constrained to gig-works, and that’s what deserves attention.
Background:
For years, inflation has been under-reported. Inflation should be measured mostly based on food-items, as the production methods don’t change over time in these areas, so prices there (inflation-adjusted) should stay constant. But if you look at official inflation rates, they are much lower (approx. 1% annually). Since wages barely keep up with official inflation, they fall behind on “food”-inflation. And that principle is basically at the core of the current “cost-of-living”-crisis.
The basic issue is that wages are dropping because progress is ending. Progress creates demand for human labor, and that keeps wages up. Since progress worldwide is slowing down, that depresses wages. That’s why we need fundamental reform, or revolution.
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 3 days ago:
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 3 weeks ago:
I think “personhood” refers to the ability to sign contracts though.
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 3 weeks ago:
The problem is with humanity giving up control to machines.
I mean, humanity (especially in the West) has already given up large amounts of power to corporate CEOs, which can be modelled as soulless machines well enough, but installing AI would take it even one step further.
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 3 weeks ago:
“personhood” by the law only refers to the ability to sign contracts.
what you’re talking about is a “natural person”.
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- Comment on Are We All Just Living Beyond Our Means Now? 4 weeks ago:
I want to place bets on the debt becoming a problem eventually.
I understand saying “debt isn’t a problem” is easy, as talk is cheap. I am however so sure about my position that i’m willing to bet money on the fact that debt will indeed become a problem, even for states and governments. Where can i make such a bet?
- Comment on You should practice on vegetables before in gauging with the real thing 4 weeks ago:
i tried but it doesn’t feel well because of the texture.
- Comment on Are We All Just Living Beyond Our Means Now? 4 weeks ago:
The wellbeing of the people depends largely on the political will of the ruling class; so efforting pressure on the ruling class to improve the living conditions of the people makes sense.
- Comment on Are We All Just Living Beyond Our Means Now? 4 weeks ago:
Nobody asks disabled people to ride a bike.
Ride a bike.
now which one is it?
- Comment on Are We All Just Living Beyond Our Means Now? 4 weeks ago:
It’s called deglobalization.
The US dollar became relevant internationally because it allowed goods and services to be exchanged world-wide. Notably, oil is sold and bought in USD, which is super-convenient to the US federal bank because they can control how much oil they can buy by just printing more money and going into more debt.
However, as I and many other people have rightly predicted, going into debt does indeed hurt the federal household. At a certain point, it just becomes unsustainable, tearing not only the federal budget but all of the government and political domain down with it. That formally causes the collapse of the US. I’m not joking. The US will re-build itself eventually but by that time, it will have lost a lot of credibility.
- Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post. 4 weeks ago:
This comment is part of a tree-datastructure that represents the branches of discussion.
- Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post. 4 weeks ago:
I try to be positive, but my way of life are very different from other people’s; and i end up doing more harm than good, if i’m forcing myself to be friendly and nice.
- Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post. 4 weeks ago:
Ah nice, I encountered a Poisson-distribution in the wild today. I shall recount this encounter to my children.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
yeah i agree with especially the last paragraph. i don’t think abandoning all IP laws today is realistic, as the commercial art/innovation economy still has too much game to gain so it’s gonna take at least 10 more years.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 4 weeks ago:
“Left” and “right” mean very different things for different people. People can’t even agree on the definition. Just to give you a clear example: today’s “leftists” are pro-immigration, while practically all leftists before 1990 were not so much pro immigration.
- Comment on Full Circle 4 weeks ago:
btw, do you think americans would still go to africa if it turns out to be/become communistic? i.e., no or restricted private ownership of land, …
- Comment on Full Circle 4 weeks ago:
hey that’s racist (slight /s as that is literally the reasoning that i see many people use here as an argument why to not block immigration)
- Comment on Full Circle 4 weeks ago:
roko’s basilisk or sth
- Comment on Full Circle 4 weeks ago:
i have come to the conclusion that there is a god and a heaven, alright, but it’s a cruel place that i would never ever ever want to go to. ever
- Comment on Full Circle 4 weeks ago:
wait isn’t there some christian story about exactly that … 🤔
- Comment on Full Circle 4 weeks ago:
i think you use “emigrating” when leaving their homes behind, but here it is part of the joke that they no longer see the US as their home. instead, they’re seeing europe/whatever other country as their new “home”, so they’re immigrating.
- Comment on Full Circle 4 weeks ago:
Would be ironic if we had to go to Africa because life there is better.
