Now the commute home: a packed 3-car single-level train out of Hoboken during rush hour. Aisles full, riders standing, and people likely unable to board. How is this considered acceptable capacity planning for a major commuter system?
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you don’t want to eat out anymore
you don’t want the food and ingredients that restaurant ‘a’ sources, the same place restaurant ’b’ sources them from
you don’t want the $22 meal made by an alcoholic 40-year old tweaker or the haitian immigrant
you don’t want the miserable 37 year old skinny-fat waitress with tattoos serving you
you don’t want to tip her but you were raised to tip people, expecting people are like you and do the right thing, providing good service
you don’t want to deal with the manager’s NPC customer service spiel, the manager with no skin in the game
the italian restaurant is owned by an s-corp group of 3 blacks, 2 indians, and a gay white guy from phoenix arizona
you got a $30 parking ticket for not paying the meter
your financed car with only 37,000 miles is out of warranty and it’s starting to make a funny noise
you get paid every 2 weeks and pay day falls on the 7th of the month
your mortgage payment is due on 3rd and you don’t have enough
you bought your house in 2021, it’s lost 26% of its value
your property taxes just went up
you read on the news $5B is being gifted to ukraine
you thought you read the same thing 2 weeks ago, and a month before that
you look out your window and wonder who your neighbors are, they’ve lived there for 2 years, you’ve never seen them
you heard it was purchased by a chinese family
you go to the gas station for a candy bar and coke, you tap to pay with your phone
the total is $7.27
you leave to drive 3 blocks back home and hit 7 red lights
just before you hit the last, a young black man in an nissan altima t-bones you
he doesn’t have insurance
you look down at your phone, ready to call the police
he drives off
you see on your lock screen that the solana memecoin you bought was a rug and you lost $250
Many people, even self-described conservatives, think socialism would work if human nature were different.
No. Socialism cannot work, even in a hypothetical society of selfless genius saints.
Why not?
Because socialism centralizes economic choices. How much lumber do we produce? How much wheat? What should the hourly wage of a garbage collector be? How much should insulin cost? How about bread?
Socialists think that if you elect the right people, they will make these decisions intelligently and altruistically, and everything will be great.
But it doesn't matter how smart and benevolent you are... you can't make a good decision without the right information. The Socialist Central Planning Committee, however wise or benevolent, doesn't know what's wanted, or what's available, because that information is conveyed in prices, and accurate pricing is the very thing that socialist governments wipe away with the bureaucratic pen.
Capitalist networks are decentralized. They distribute decision making to where the information is.
A man selling metal doesn't know anything about desks, or lumber. He doesn't know how many desks people want, or whether they should be made out of oak, or folded metal.
But he does know how much it costs him to smelt iron ore into steel, and roll it into sheets. So he sets a price, and others decide whether, and how much, to buy.
That price contains the information others need to decide whether steel is plentiful, and should be folded into anything you can make out of sheet metal, or is scarce, and should be saved for things that can only be done with steel, and furniture should be made out of oak, or pine, instead.
Socialism works, or rather doesn't, by using the threat of force to set the prices of things, or take money from one person and give it to another.
But every time this happens, critical data on supply or demand is erased... data that you need to make decisions.
Individual prices are a decision, a guess at where supply and demand cross paths. But since free markets reward those who guess correctly, or copy a correct guess, aggregate prices are data on supply and demand.
For a socialist central planning committee to order the manufacture of the correct number of cars, or to correctly set the price of a car, they need to know a thousand thousand thousand things about steel and aluminium, welders and assembly robots, rubber and glass and lithium batteries and copper wire, which they must gather, along with trillions of other pieces of data, from literally everyone in their entire civilization.
Tesla only needs to know how much people charge them for the stuff they need.
At every transaction in a captialist society, vital data is compressed into its most compact and useful form, then passed along to the adjacent step, where abundant brainpower is waiting to make decisions with it.
Any defective node in the web that fails to make good decisions receives swift and automatic feedback, and either heeds that feedback or goes out of business, to be replaced by someone who will.
Yes, in a capitalist system, there are many undesirable results. But capitalism doesn't create these results. It discovers them. They are inevitable consequences of the state of technology, and will persist until something is invented that changes the terrain.
In socialism, no such solution is possible, because all the inherent problems you need to solve with progress are hidden from view by the far worse problems you created for yourself by separating the place where decisions are made from the place where information is known.
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Solo han pasado 48 horas desde que OpenAI lanzó GPT-5.4.
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Citadel Securities published this graph showing a strange phenomenon.
Job postings for software engineers are actually seeing a massive spike.
Classic example of the Jevons paradox. When AI makes coding cheaper, companies actually may need a lot more software engineers, not fewer.
When software is cheaper to build, companies naturally want to build a lot more of it. Businesses are now putting software into industries and tools where it was simply too expensive before.
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