I believe we need some sort of copyright and patent law to incentivise both creation of new works and the publishing of those new works in public. Work won't end if such a system doesn't exist, but in order to get paid those works won't be distributed to the public. Patronage by the rich sounds great, except that the people who tend to get copies of those works are the patrons.
To me, the correct reform is to focus copyright and patents. Make them very strong, but for a very limited time. If I sing a song to my child, then my child sings that song to his child, then most of the time that probably shouldn't be something that that child would then grow up and still be owned by someone.
Our current arts are dominated by a bunch of old dead guys, showing that copyright at the moment specifically does not incentivize the creation of new works. If things continue, cultural stagnation will result, and arguably is already resulting.
To me, the correct reform is to focus copyright and patents. Make them very strong, but for a very limited time. If I sing a song to my child, then my child sings that song to his child, then most of the time that probably shouldn't be something that that child would then grow up and still be owned by someone.
Our current arts are dominated by a bunch of old dead guys, showing that copyright at the moment specifically does not incentivize the creation of new works. If things continue, cultural stagnation will result, and arguably is already resulting.
Bubble continues, of course it is, fed policy is still essentially accommodative. Irrational exuberance abounds.
Most people who are actually doing well do lots to not advertise it. Looking like you're rich is something you do when you expect to get something out of it.
Printed a wall mount for my wii mini.
Printed reasonably well and it works, but it's 3 identical pieces I had to hang on the wall individually so it took extreme precision to make it correctly hold the wii to the wall. If I were going to design it again, I'd print all 3 at once with a plastic bottom that keeps them exactly where they need to be so you don't need to be perfect mounting them.
Printed reasonably well and it works, but it's 3 identical pieces I had to hang on the wall individually so it took extreme precision to make it correctly hold the wii to the wall. If I were going to design it again, I'd print all 3 at once with a plastic bottom that keeps them exactly where they need to be so you don't need to be perfect mounting them.
Hate to say, but the other question is who cares?
I don't mean in terms of the frame that you're reporting the story in, obviously hypocrisy and disinformation need to be rooted out. What I mean is, at this point are there any people left in government who haven't gotten it? For something charged as the most deadly thing since the Spanish flu, sure seems like an awful lot of people get it and are fine.
I don't mean in terms of the frame that you're reporting the story in, obviously hypocrisy and disinformation need to be rooted out. What I mean is, at this point are there any people left in government who haven't gotten it? For something charged as the most deadly thing since the Spanish flu, sure seems like an awful lot of people get it and are fine.
You must be mistaken, I was assured by the news media that viruses don't transmit during protests of things that the news media agrees with.
You can absolutely do that within a tight knit group of like-minded individuals. The thing is the Free Rider problem. So you end up building a group of friends that will help each other out, and occasionally you let someone else into this community that you build, and very quickly people can be shut out of it if you abuse the group's goodwill.
Without an enforcement mechanism, even otherwise honest people could end up turning into Free riders.
This isn't a problem in the abstract, some hypothetical that I've created in my mind. My wife and I are both very generous people, and we've had to learn to be very careful about who we help. If you're not careful, you can end up in a situation where not only are you sitting there giving up a ton of your excess to some individual, many of those Free riders end up coming to resent you because you're not giving them more. I remember one time, we ended up giving a substantial amount to a friend of mine who hadn't worked for six months because he had to watch his wife slowly die of cancer, and someone we were helping at the time got angry because we didn't give that money to them (even though we had consistently been helping that person for years). That sort of thing has happened a couple times, and it's incredibly disheartening when it does.
In that sense, building that community and building those links of trust and providing mutual aid reminds me of my suggestion that people build something. It doesn't have to be a thriving career, it doesn't have to be a lot of things, but at the very least you can build communities. It doesn't matter if you're too old, it doesn't matter if you're too dumb, it doesn't matter if you're not strong enough, with a good heart you can go out and find like-minded people and build those communities.
Without an enforcement mechanism, even otherwise honest people could end up turning into Free riders.
This isn't a problem in the abstract, some hypothetical that I've created in my mind. My wife and I are both very generous people, and we've had to learn to be very careful about who we help. If you're not careful, you can end up in a situation where not only are you sitting there giving up a ton of your excess to some individual, many of those Free riders end up coming to resent you because you're not giving them more. I remember one time, we ended up giving a substantial amount to a friend of mine who hadn't worked for six months because he had to watch his wife slowly die of cancer, and someone we were helping at the time got angry because we didn't give that money to them (even though we had consistently been helping that person for years). That sort of thing has happened a couple times, and it's incredibly disheartening when it does.
In that sense, building that community and building those links of trust and providing mutual aid reminds me of my suggestion that people build something. It doesn't have to be a thriving career, it doesn't have to be a lot of things, but at the very least you can build communities. It doesn't matter if you're too old, it doesn't matter if you're too dumb, it doesn't matter if you're not strong enough, with a good heart you can go out and find like-minded people and build those communities.
There's another element that you're not taking into account, and that is that while people generally want to minimize labor, it is a requirement for fulfillment as a human being. If you want to murder a man without a murder weapon, take away all need to labor. He'll be dead in a few years.
Sometimes I forget because der fuhrer has deemed me a racist sexist misogynistic homophobic transphobic far right American Russian bot for not supporting his policies, but there are people labeled conservative out there who actually are conservative.
To be fair, at this point astroturfing is so deep you can never even tell whether a crowd is there because they want to be there or because they've been paid to be there.
I hear opposing stories about China. On one hand I hear about China the superpower with wise leadership that doesn't need to think in 4 year increments and therefore is looking ahead by a century, but on the other hand I hear about China the third world country where shortsighted and obviously harmful policies go through unchallenged in particular because the concept of face doesn't allow them to course correct.
Nothing this decade shocked me more than when the Democratic candidate for president started bragging that a bunch of the Bush administration really liked him.
It's like Superman coming up and going "you know, Zod really likes me!" -- completely nuts.
It's like Superman coming up and going "you know, Zod really likes me!" -- completely nuts.
There's more than one set of vultures picking our corpse clean. Oil is one, but the environmental industrial complex is the current grift. They're looting the poor because the poor can't fight back.
So you're probably on the right track in many ways, but it's time for democracies to meet the standard of conduct we expect from other fiduciaries. We should start arresting politicians for corruption when there's even an appearance of conflicts of interest.
So you're probably on the right track in many ways, but it's time for democracies to meet the standard of conduct we expect from other fiduciaries. We should start arresting politicians for corruption when there's even an appearance of conflicts of interest.
Government doesn't have that sort of resolution. For example, where I live the money to buy these magical environmentalism boxes was torn from the pockets of the poor. The middle class and the rich were able to afford alternatives using fossil fuels directly, but the poor just had to sit and deal with it, so they pay hundreds of dollars every month just for the privilege of not dying of the elements, but they do get to feel very good that magic environmentalism boxes that literally don't do anything 9 months of the year when they need that power are installed on someone's roof somewhere.
On the upside, even though all the poor are getting absolutely raked over the coals, our politicians are getting very rich. So I guess they are accountable, just to the ultra rich.
On the upside, even though all the poor are getting absolutely raked over the coals, our politicians are getting very rich. So I guess they are accountable, just to the ultra rich.
If the shit hits the fan, how much do you think you'll be worrying about sending currency of any kind to the other end of the earth in minutes?
You think you'll be able to depend on Electricity and Internet being there to trade?
You think you'll be able to depend on Electricity and Internet being there to trade?