Remember when they sold us the slogan, “Go paperless, save trees, save the planet”?
Now we've gone digital, and it's consuming enormous amounts of water, destroying ecosystems, harming bees, and contributing to environmental damage on a scale paper never did.
The most intellectually gifted person in my applied math masters program ended up working for the university doing research for pennies. The stupidest, vilest, ass kisser ended up in a large investment bank. This is a very common trajectory.
Ya allah please give me the confidence of an average 20y/o boy who thinks he's an expert in politics, economics, international relations, religion, philosophy, linguistics, quantum physics, nuclear physics and advanced maths, despite never picking up a single book in his life.
If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1.2 trillion that he's worth today.
Elon would still be the wealthiest man alive & every family in America would have universal childcare.
This characterization of Quine by Putnum shows how in some ways Quine was more extreme than Carnap and why attempts to save classical metaphysics via Quine are misguided
A nazi becoming the first trillionaire off taxpayer subsidies mergers and apartheid mine inheritance isn't an anomaly. It's showing you what the system rewards.
Capitalism is a death cult