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mircea_popescu: i mean a) it clearly labels you as a scammer, as only they do it ; b) it can't possibly give roi, even as a scammer ; c) srsly.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how fucktarded they have to be to advertise ipos on twitter.
mircea_popescu: perhaps it doesn't have as much to do with the environment as one'd think
mircea_popescu: alternatively, "in briar patch, foot hurt ; in forest, head hurt" said the mongoloid.
mircea_popescu: is also legally protected should she wish to go topless parading by the barracks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the same woman that got punished for failing to admit her sluttery
mircea_popescu: basically the guy spent five years on his cot trying to avoid the realisation that he was a fucking idiot
mircea_popescu: but irl i know of no system more corrupt than reagan's us
mircea_popescu: i mean, this is oft repeated as a representation of fact,
mircea_popescu: be $700/mo for "some high school" (SSI) or $1500/mo for "previous work experience" (unemployment). I would have accepted $2000/mo for "minorities" (jail) for partial credit."
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: ThickAsThieves not for your definition of "Win" i'm affraid.
mircea_popescu: the guy can't evaluate if you were in fact harming no-one
mircea_popescu: the tension is still there, you merely force people into hypocrisy
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: if the slut is not allowed free reign, civil war is unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: if the slut is allowed free rein, you have just destroyed the separation.
mircea_popescu: you may not readily appreciate the immensity of this problem.
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: suppose you're advising me as emperor of jormania in the making of my imperial police force.
mircea_popescu: decimation explai nhow this actual police force works.
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: which is why sane people (ie, germans) don't have upper limits,
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: like you know, the state of being locked into the cake freezer seems ideal to the 9yo
mircea_popescu: decimation this only seems perfect. it's in fact disastrous.
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: so... another couple of these, they're going to end up with hostage senate.
mircea_popescu: it's relatively easy living french peasants that get an easement, which suddenly makes all restraints unbearable
mircea_popescu: as per tocqueville's observation, it's not opressed peasants like the german serfs that rebel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is this : they have 6-7-8 mn people packed like sardines in there, like 5k/km2
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: just, the vc circus hasn't yet found out, because we don't finance the circus.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones cause it keeps the nsa busy while we fuck it raw.