Arrrrrr

I have given more thought to what I would change my name to if I was trying to hide as a criminal than I have for if I switched genders.

I’d argue home assistant with some smart LEDs and a few sensors would be great.

Having a bulb that let’s you know the outside temperature/weather when you’re getting dressed in the morning is neat. Having a dimming pattern for sleeping time. Tons of other really simple stuff available too.

All of those are part of capitalism. Even most homesteading these days requires significant purchased inputs.

Precious metals, crypto, and anything else that’s an investment asset is quite literally the epitome of capitalism.

You really need a better economic education. You sound just as dumb as the people complaining about communism without knowing what that is either.

A proper Land value tax is a way of preventing owners from making any money off the appreciation of the value of land while still being profitable to construct or renovate if it adds value. It significantly reduces if not outright eliminates housing as an investment.

Land value taxes only apply to the value of the land itself, not the buildings, and therefore desirable areas with high land value taxes have a significant incentive to sell and be redeveloped with density which spread a that tax among a larger number of tenants.

The biggest downside is that it completely destroys existing equity. Which is both how it makes everything affordable again, and is also likely why it won’t pass as a policy for many years.

Currency isn’t the problem, and you really need to keep that concept separate from the issues that happen within Capitalism.

Currency is just a convenient method to measure and exchange resources.

Very few people desire an allocated home and weekly rations of flour, chicken, and butter. If you instead give them a list of things they can choose from, and assign ratios and a limit for total resources, all you’ve done is create a new currency.

I disagree, rent and price controls are not the correct tool.

Land value taxes are the correct method to solve that issue.

“UBI Free” doesn’t make sense. Everyone gets a UNIVERSAL basic income.

If you mean there would be areas of major metros where people who are not employed cannot live, those already exist.

I’m always happy to hear suggestions of alternate systems for resource allocation that do not involve capitalism. What do you propose?

Unintended consequences, or just ones you aren’t aware of?

There’s lots of known things that will happen, both good and bad.

• A significant de-urbanization would be likely, similar to what we saw with remote work during COVID
• There would be a drop in certain types of crime
• A small chunk of the population would become absolute shut-ins, and likely become very mentally unwell
• Divorce would probably go up
• The birth rate would likely also go up

I honestly don’t think either party is going to pick reduction in population beyond simply cancelling all immigration. And while that would lead to a reduction in the population over time, it’s far too slow to handle the unemployment spiking like that.

It’s more likely that the demand for LLM inference will drop off only once AGI exists.

There are billions of active users already having it do everything from coming up with ideas for Christmas presents, to helping them write e-mails to clients.

That isn’t going anywhere until there’s a better option on the table. People would have already got bored and moved on if it wasn’t doing anything useful for them.

I hear theres a few neo Mennonite colonies starting up that only use tech before the turn of the millenia. Maybe you could look into them.

And the vast majority of my automations don’t use it because it isn’t required.

I will stand by what I said, the tool is great even if you don’t touch AI at all with it.

The comment was wrong. It’s an automation tool. It can use ai, but its not the primary focus.

I was working at a call center, and applied to become a supervisor, I didn’t get the position.

My supervisor at the time gave me some offhand feedback about how I was approaching other people and coming off as too cocky because I was really really good at my current role, I was #1 out of over 1000 agents on my call metrics.

Not sure if it was just the right person, the right time, the right method of delivery, whatever, but it finally clicked for me. That one piece feedback changed my whole personality and has given me so much opportunity over the last 20 years.

I got the supervisor position the next time I applied.

Edit: Just wanted to add that teenagers are stupid, including myself.

Hockey has zero balls, 24 sharp pieces of metal moving around at 20-25mph, and a hard chunk of rubber moving at speeds of up to 100mph.

But I get your point.

That’s actually a lot better than some of these. Take the win.

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That would be AI slop by most standards since the robot voice is “AI” in a way.