EnsignWashout

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Great analogy.

I think it's fair to tweak it and leave that second library with full accountability for the lack of desirability.

Domain names don't start out undesirable, they build their reputation from the content and users.

So it's like building a second library in a perfectly nice spot, and having that library attract people who dump pollution into the surrounding area, making it undesirable.

The actual act of exercise is pretty miserable for most of us. It's the hours in between exercises that for better, for me. I just generally feel better when I'm exercising more.

It sounds like you're getting plenty of exercise, so it's time to check into vitamins, meditation, mindfulness exercises and whatever else.

In your shoes, I would keep exercising, to keep that variable controlled while I tried the next change.

I don't know enough about it to confidently say they're going to lose all their money

It happened to my relative. They didn't lose everything, but they lost enough that they're shopping for a mobile home for retirement, when they previously could have bought a small house.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 23 hours ago

Plausible explanation.

Immutable distros can usually be set to mutable with the correct privileged command.

It's essentially security by obscurity. But I disagree with "no benefit". An infection miss through dumb luck is still a miss, after all.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or add more competition to the market by having government provide cheap alternatives to food/shelter.

That's the solution I think all civilized nations will land at, plus universal basic income.

So everyone has an option for effectively free (since their UBI covers it) water, food, shelter, and transportation. But standard free market sources can compete to outdo the public options in any ways the public desires.

There's plenty still to do, since anyone invotating can outdo the public option, and make some extra money for their effort. While, at the same time, no one has to be quite as dragged down by an aunt with failing health who cannot work, anymore.

And any mega corporations that try to force everyone into closed lousy situations have to at least compete with the public option.

Of course, any mega corporations allowed to thrive will immediately try to kill off public options, which we do already see happen.

Isn't project Gutenberg just for older classic books(not that there's anything wrong with that)?

Oh, yes. I'm most cases, really old books.

Where can i make such a bet?

International stock index funds are, in my option, the best place to make that bet. It's been a losing bet (compared to other index funds) for decades, but you might notice that lots of folks still buy a solid amount as a hedge, anyway, because they agree with you, or at least aren't willing to bet their entire retirement that you're wrong.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Things going to shit, in the US, correlates strongly with Reagen Era economic policies. The term "trickle down economics" says a lot about why it didn't benefit most people.

In my option, all presidents from both major political parties since Reagan have done more to make it worse, than better.

My conclusion is that what's really going on is class warfare by the ultra rich against the rest of us...

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I used to always use Minecrat for this. Sure, they can't do everything immediately, but I put the game on peaceful and let them explore at their own pace.

I say "used to" because Luanti (formerly MineTest, an open source Minecraft Clone*) is finished and free.

(Okay, Luanti is a lot more than a Minecraft clone. But for this discussion that's all one needs to know.)

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nice. Minecraft used to be my go to answer for a first WASD game, too.

Lately, I recommend Mineclonia on Luanti, because it's free and has stronger optimizations supporting weak laptops and big multiplayer servers. (It's a popular Free Open Source Minecraft Clone).

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Well the baker, knowing that everyone has twice as much money, puts his prices up because he knows the market can bear it. That's the way I reason it.

The good news is this simply doesn't happen (in civilized modern countries).

People with more money don't buy twice as much bread, they buy other things.

The bread maker is still competing with milk producers and video game makers and artists.

You can read about price elasticity for more details (and to not just take my word for it.)

Highly inelastic goods (water, transportation, eggs) are the most likely to have runaway price increases.

But civilized countries already have public options to supply these items at cost :public water, public transport, food stamps.

This means we already have the necessary buffers against any impact by UBI. Any provider of an inelastic good who raises their price too far loses business to the public option.

Schwinn and Ferrari will all see slightly more sales with UBI as a few people use their additional income to purchase a bicycle or a supercar, but the bus lines must still run to keep them honest.

The risk is minimal because we already know what public consumption of these goods looks like, when they're free or heavily subsidized, in each civilized country.

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