This is not true. You're completely pulling this out of your ass. Your job isn't paying less and outputting more because video games exist. When cars were introduced pay didn't suddenly stop tracking productivity.
The top 10% of taxes should go up radically. They've been MUCH higher in the past.
I'll say it again because apparently no one's listening. We're working more and getting paid less for that work. This isn't because of the standard of living. Standard of living can still increase while pay tracks…
You're working more and getting paid less than people did, 10, 20, 30 years ago... meanwhile the wealth gap has increased dramatically. Where do you think it's going? It's not hyperbole whatsoever.
This is false. I do not understand how so many people are coming in here peddling this theory with 0 sources. It doesn't even follow basic logic. You're positing that we're spending more while also earning less? Where's…
This is not true. I'm talking about worker productivity within the US. Hour for hour we're outputting more and getting paid less. Before overseas labor you weren't less productive because you had to make your own…
child labor still exists, literally kids operating sewing and mining machines
Walter You can go on and on, but you're talking about an illusion. You are literally working more and getting paid less than previous generations. It's objective data. People had cars and televisions. Your cellphone…
This ain't it chief. People are more productive than they were in the 50s and also have lower net worths. You can work less and have a constantly increasing quality of life. They aren't diametrically opposed. Your labor…
Why give free school to everyone, libraries? Clearly a rich person doesn't need those either? Public services should be public. There's extreme social value in equal access and you reduce an extreme amount of…
Having nearly unlimited free garbage removal is probably more than a problem than people realize. UBI means you can actually evaluate the system you live in and determine what's necessary (and then pay more for it). At…
Right not a bad point, but I was making the comparison to demonstrate Amazon's scale within ecommerce... not to compare the volume of sales across all commerce. I personally think the distinction matters, but maybe I'm…
Ah there it is. That makes a lot more sense... honestly at their scale I don't think they should be able to do this, aggregate or not. They're about 50% of all online sales in the US, where compared to brick-and-mortar,…
>Before the Journal’s report came out, Amazon had told Congress that it doesn’t access sales data to help guide the launch of its own products. This is insanely hard to believe. Amazon just started selling batteries and…
Maciej Cegłowski is a generally clever and entertaining guy. Check out his (mostly unrelated) blog too... it's very well written. https://idlewords.com/
Oh wow that's even better than analytics referrer spam.
Yeah you have to assume that if a user can input anything, someone will use it to spam. Text, photos, video, audio... literally any form of user input.
Right, they can send millions at very little cost... and in some places throughout the world a single successful scam could be equivalent to the average annual income.
They have not fixed it. I wish I could turn off the feature entirely, but I still occasionally get Russian spam events on my calendar. They also try to notify me at ~3am (fortunately I turn notifications completely off…
A mix of politics, bureaucracy, and cost. For example, there was a fatal derailment back in 2017 in the US, and an automated safety system that may have prevented it was delayed.…
There's not a cheap off the shelf solution because most companies offering comparable mass-email services spend a significant amount of resources to fight spam and care about deliverability rates. Nice to have the…
Diversity in suburbs is a very recent development. Look at the historical demographics of the suburb you probably live in. It's great that it's changing but suburbs are not a product of seeking to preserve diversity.
It's weird in our context but there's followable logic there. Being absurdly protective of the person who did the work is at least erring on the side of protection. It's not impossible to imagine a world where the…
Well of course, who can afford the rent? It's not like a little four-employee computer repair shop can show up and fill the space.
How did we slip away so far from this being fairly obvious? Cities have worked well this way for hundreds of years. Maybe the industrial revolution made cities too unpleasant? Were we too spoiled by the automobile…
This is not true. You're completely pulling this out of your ass. Your job isn't paying less and outputting more because video games exist. When cars were introduced pay didn't suddenly stop tracking productivity.
The top 10% of taxes should go up radically. They've been MUCH higher in the past.
I'll say it again because apparently no one's listening. We're working more and getting paid less for that work. This isn't because of the standard of living. Standard of living can still increase while pay tracks…
You're working more and getting paid less than people did, 10, 20, 30 years ago... meanwhile the wealth gap has increased dramatically. Where do you think it's going? It's not hyperbole whatsoever.
This is false. I do not understand how so many people are coming in here peddling this theory with 0 sources. It doesn't even follow basic logic. You're positing that we're spending more while also earning less? Where's…
This is not true. I'm talking about worker productivity within the US. Hour for hour we're outputting more and getting paid less. Before overseas labor you weren't less productive because you had to make your own…
child labor still exists, literally kids operating sewing and mining machines
Walter You can go on and on, but you're talking about an illusion. You are literally working more and getting paid less than previous generations. It's objective data. People had cars and televisions. Your cellphone…
This ain't it chief. People are more productive than they were in the 50s and also have lower net worths. You can work less and have a constantly increasing quality of life. They aren't diametrically opposed. Your labor…
Why give free school to everyone, libraries? Clearly a rich person doesn't need those either? Public services should be public. There's extreme social value in equal access and you reduce an extreme amount of…
Having nearly unlimited free garbage removal is probably more than a problem than people realize. UBI means you can actually evaluate the system you live in and determine what's necessary (and then pay more for it). At…
Right not a bad point, but I was making the comparison to demonstrate Amazon's scale within ecommerce... not to compare the volume of sales across all commerce. I personally think the distinction matters, but maybe I'm…
Ah there it is. That makes a lot more sense... honestly at their scale I don't think they should be able to do this, aggregate or not. They're about 50% of all online sales in the US, where compared to brick-and-mortar,…
>Before the Journal’s report came out, Amazon had told Congress that it doesn’t access sales data to help guide the launch of its own products. This is insanely hard to believe. Amazon just started selling batteries and…
Maciej Cegłowski is a generally clever and entertaining guy. Check out his (mostly unrelated) blog too... it's very well written. https://idlewords.com/
Oh wow that's even better than analytics referrer spam.
Yeah you have to assume that if a user can input anything, someone will use it to spam. Text, photos, video, audio... literally any form of user input.
Right, they can send millions at very little cost... and in some places throughout the world a single successful scam could be equivalent to the average annual income.
They have not fixed it. I wish I could turn off the feature entirely, but I still occasionally get Russian spam events on my calendar. They also try to notify me at ~3am (fortunately I turn notifications completely off…
A mix of politics, bureaucracy, and cost. For example, there was a fatal derailment back in 2017 in the US, and an automated safety system that may have prevented it was delayed.…
There's not a cheap off the shelf solution because most companies offering comparable mass-email services spend a significant amount of resources to fight spam and care about deliverability rates. Nice to have the…
Diversity in suburbs is a very recent development. Look at the historical demographics of the suburb you probably live in. It's great that it's changing but suburbs are not a product of seeking to preserve diversity.
It's weird in our context but there's followable logic there. Being absurdly protective of the person who did the work is at least erring on the side of protection. It's not impossible to imagine a world where the…
Well of course, who can afford the rent? It's not like a little four-employee computer repair shop can show up and fill the space.
How did we slip away so far from this being fairly obvious? Cities have worked well this way for hundreds of years. Maybe the industrial revolution made cities too unpleasant? Were we too spoiled by the automobile…