mircea_popescu: i mean, this is oft repeated as a representation of fact,

mircea_popescu: say, a U Chicago grad can do no economically productive work at all but still be paid to use Instagram? Let me be explicit: my question is not should we do this, my question is that since this is precisely what's happening already, is it sustainable? What is the cost? I don't have to run the numbers, someone already has: it's $150/mo for a college grads, i.e. the price of food stamps. Other correct responses would

mircea_popescu: "So start with an interesting hypothetical: does everybody need to work anymore? I understand work from an ethical/character perspective, this is not here my point. Since we no longer need e.g. manufacturing jobs-- cheaper elsewhere or with robots-- since those labor costs have evaporated, could that surplus go towards paying people simply to stay out of trouble? Is there a natural economic equilibrium price where,

mircea_popescu: it's a matter of "let everything be better"

mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of harmony

mircea_popescu: a more complex system could be conceived, and even if it'd work "worse

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i mean this : that your approach imposes a limit on the complexity of relationships in your society

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so what do you do when you're invaded by a society which is more complicated ? pray ?

mircea_popescu: because - horrible dictu - he reminds her a lot of her father.

mircea_popescu: so then suppose one day a police officer's daughter falls in love with a lowly police grunt.

mircea_popescu: finding an asshole officer was like finding a virgin in paris

mircea_popescu: i remember a time when officer was a superlative menschkeit thing

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well, that reasoning doesn't work in a town (because if you go fast enough whether you run into someone or not becomes a matter of luck), but it does make sense of highways

mircea_popescu: "and then i saw a great vision of everyone's head being screwed in backwards

mircea_popescu: just buy a judge

mircea_popescu: if there's going to be a soyuz of the soviets organised within our lifetimes over there i'll possibly not be able to carry on for laughter

mircea_popescu: decimation eventually someone will write the grand book of everything, just distil all the 500k lines here into a castle of words.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla now write a pow based on that

mircea_popescu: you know... it's not a site.

mircea_popescu: KRS-One i know people who have to maintain it that are shocked on a weekly basis by both what it can do and how it works.

mircea_popescu: of a capitalist."

mircea_popescu: When we see a welfare mom we assume she can't find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn't want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as irr

mircea_popescu: "magine a large corporate machine mobilized to get you to buy something you don't need at a tremendously inflated cost, complete with advertising, marketing, and branding that says you're not hip if you don't have one, but when you get one you discover it's of poor quality and obsolete in ten months. That's a BA.

mircea_popescu: there used to be. herodotus or who observed that it seems ignoble and unworthy of a man to plow the field

mircea_popescu: it used to be, sure. but now it's more like a welfare programme

mircea_popescu: basically, a congressional aide.

mircea_popescu: logofat = youthful scribe used to take down dictation of his lord and sometimes a little cock.

mircea_popescu: what, pray tell, is a chumpatron ?

mircea_popescu: ok, so going to the university has a cost.

mircea_popescu: but that aside, you familiar with the *medieval* notion that a healthy young boy should learn a trade, and only phtisic good for nothing losers go to university ?

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo asciilifeform actually, a university (in the classical, functional and ideal sense, no relation to us/uk "college") is the prototype of the honest chumpatron

mircea_popescu: it's a std.

mircea_popescu: i don't hate them as a brazilian either.

mircea_popescu: i can take an investor on any terms i want in 2013, seeing how i'm already valued at a billion, with him or without him.

mircea_popescu: ninjashogun sheep have no privacy, nor crabs nor birds. privacy is a construct of the human mind, and it is built upon identity. which you don't currently have.