@citizen_rhetor@BStizzl@sfmcguire79 Good Lord! AI handles million word context while we are shrinking ours. If we kept the standards "college material" would again be merely 10% or maybe 5% of the population.
@BStizzl@sfmcguire79 They tried to shove every kid with a room temp iq and up through college as a social leveling experiment and to reduce the labor problems from globalization and indebtedness. It is another form of inflation. Substitution of inferior product, quantity, quality or ingredients.
You need to define precisely each of the four words: we, have, sufficient, and wealth. Also have you ever received a stipend or generous payments you didn’t have to work for? It absolutely kills your desire to produce. Only the most intrinsically motivated , most conscientious maybe 5% would find something useful to do in the face of payments that keep them at a standard of living that approaches minimum respectability relative to their visible and local peers. I am opposed to UBI regardless of whether we can afford it. People need to serve each other. It brings meaning and dignity to existence. Taking that away is destructive and harmful. We ought to maximize people’s ability to gain income by serving not reduce the incentive to be useful.
@a16z Yes. And AI vastly expands the ambition and capability of small teams. https://t.co/U5fKPU7ZWM was impossible a year ago for a team of any size or funding. But I was ready and jumped the moment it became possible.
Let's do a what if. What if it were shown to some satisfactory evidentiary standard and adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction, perhaps the supreme court, that elections for 20 years were grossly manipulated in one or more large states? What if it were undeniable? What remedies exist? Would this be a cause to convene a convention of states? Such efforts have long been underway with narrow scope but have not yet met the thresholds required in the consitution.
@Leishman@River Very nice. Just finishing up my plaid integration for https://t.co/U5fKPU7ZWM -- Can I import bitcoin sale transactions with transaction fee via Plaid? I had intended only to use for bank syncs to our accounting ledgers.
@jackcoder0 The economy consists of people wanting things and people doing things to achieve those ends. That doesn't go away. People will always trade whatever is scarce and meaningful in exchange for what is desired. Everything else can go away, firms, banks, currencies, countries.