Electric + nuclear is what a sane culture would do, but we are somehow pushing the worst mix of both
They dont care.
With $50 trillion in esg funds, they can determine the stock price no matter what the profits or customers say.
With $50 trillion in esg funds, they can determine the stock price no matter what the profits or customers say.
Sorry bud, but they dont care what consumers think, because they know where the money is, and the money they care about is tied up in esg funds controlled by Blackrock and others.
https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/esg-assets-rising-to-50-trillion-will-reshape-140-5-trillion-of-global-aum-by-2025-finds-bloomberg-intelligence/
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) assets are on track to exceed $50 trillion by 2025, representing more than a third of the projected $140.5 trillion in total global assets
https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/esg-assets-rising-to-50-trillion-will-reshape-140-5-trillion-of-global-aum-by-2025-finds-bloomberg-intelligence/
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) assets are on track to exceed $50 trillion by 2025, representing more than a third of the projected $140.5 trillion in total global assets
In the 9th century, the Song dynasty in China lost the northern half of the country because instead of dealing with the invaders to the north, they sat in the capitol writing poetry about how great it would be to win. In the same era, the Indian subcontinent was being invaded by the Muslims and instead of doing anything productive, they built nicer temples so the Gods would grant them victory and they ultimately ended up losing most of the subcontinent.
At the end of the day, reality is the final arbiter of what's real. Let one of many different bad things happen, you're dead. Reality doesn't care about ideology if the ideology inevitably leads to ruin. It'll just let you die. The giant stone heads on easter island is all that's left. The Minoans left virtually no trace of their existence despite once being a regional superpower.
We're ironically a deeply conservative culture. We already have all the answers. We don't need to change anything, just do more of what our grandparents did but moreso. We don't need to care about what other cultures do, what ideas are out there, because we're the center of the universe.
In that sense, it won't matter what we want the future to look like, because we won't be a part of it. Things will change too much, and we'll be too busy looking backwards to do anything about the future.
At the end of the day, reality is the final arbiter of what's real. Let one of many different bad things happen, you're dead. Reality doesn't care about ideology if the ideology inevitably leads to ruin. It'll just let you die. The giant stone heads on easter island is all that's left. The Minoans left virtually no trace of their existence despite once being a regional superpower.
We're ironically a deeply conservative culture. We already have all the answers. We don't need to change anything, just do more of what our grandparents did but moreso. We don't need to care about what other cultures do, what ideas are out there, because we're the center of the universe.
In that sense, it won't matter what we want the future to look like, because we won't be a part of it. Things will change too much, and we'll be too busy looking backwards to do anything about the future.
Why would they do this? Incompetence?
I assumed they would throw resources at fitbit to harvest biometric data
I assumed they would throw resources at fitbit to harvest biometric data
See also:
"What happens when a country has uncontrolled borders and immigration enforcement?"
"What happens when a country has uncontrolled borders and immigration enforcement?"
How is it showing up on the fediverse? Is it being bridged like so many twitter relays, or do the two actually talk?
Imagine being elected to represent the people. This is your full time occupation. And you just do nothing while your constituency suffers through a manmade disaster.
Every politician in Ohio should have been on this from day 1.
Unforgivable. Worthless.
Every politician in Ohio should have been on this from day 1.
Unforgivable. Worthless.
The War on Poverty and the War on Drugs are doing so well they decided they need a War on the Internet I guess
"We created a thing that will take complex algorithms, and start making it's own web of algorithms at an exponentially increasing rate to the point that humans cannot comprehend what it is doing, but we're totally sure everything is fine and we should integrate this technology into every aspect of our lives"
Yes, that experiment seems to prove you can't just give people everything because it'll destroy them. Ironically, we're seeing that in some subcultures that are highly protected by the state -- without any reason to do anything productive, you end up with people who just destroy everything around them, whereas throughout history you've seen people with much less live much happier lives because they had a reason to go out and do something productive.
Caesar Milan talks about it a lot with dogs -- the problem dogs have isn't that they're not loved enough, it's that they need a job and if you're not walking them enough and tiring them out they start misbehaving because they're trying to do something. I think we have the same thing with people, people tearing up the furniture because life is just handed to them with the best of intentions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCYooC9yys8
Caesar Milan talks about it a lot with dogs -- the problem dogs have isn't that they're not loved enough, it's that they need a job and if you're not walking them enough and tiring them out they start misbehaving because they're trying to do something. I think we have the same thing with people, people tearing up the furniture because life is just handed to them with the best of intentions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCYooC9yys8
Post scarcity is literally impossible.
Why?
Because there's always going to be something that's scarce. Even if you have unlimited food and stuff, you can't have everything.
The factories can pump out stuff (or even your personal replicator in the star trek future), but the fact that someone hand built a thing is important to humans and there's a limited amount of that which can be done.
There might be all kinds of track housing, but nice beachfront property is geographically limited, everyone can't have some. The places with the nicest weather, that's limited, everyone can't have some. Places where the talented people gather, that's limited and not everyone can be there at once.
There's stuff that isn't stuff. Megan Fox can't be married with kids to all of us. She can't even bang everyone who wants to bang her, because there's only one Megan Fox. Oh, and let's not forget, maybe you wanted to bang 2000s Megan Fox oops she's approaching 40. So not even Megan Fox is Megan Fox.
There's more stuff that isn't stuff. Hey, you want John Carmack to help work on the game you're working on? Tough, there's just one, and you're just some idiot in the middle of nowhere, he's not going to work with you on your thing. You want top artists to do your art for you? Tough, they've got options. You want top musicians to do the music for you? Tough, they've got 24 hours in a day and not one for you. Amy Hennig to be the creative director? Tough, she doesn't even know your name.
I wrote long ago that economics include money but don't necessarily require money. There's always going to be scarcity, and that scarcity is always going to be settled one way or another. Unlimited stuff from highly efficient factories can't change that. Human beings don't work that way, and neither does the universe.
Why?
Because there's always going to be something that's scarce. Even if you have unlimited food and stuff, you can't have everything.
The factories can pump out stuff (or even your personal replicator in the star trek future), but the fact that someone hand built a thing is important to humans and there's a limited amount of that which can be done.
There might be all kinds of track housing, but nice beachfront property is geographically limited, everyone can't have some. The places with the nicest weather, that's limited, everyone can't have some. Places where the talented people gather, that's limited and not everyone can be there at once.
There's stuff that isn't stuff. Megan Fox can't be married with kids to all of us. She can't even bang everyone who wants to bang her, because there's only one Megan Fox. Oh, and let's not forget, maybe you wanted to bang 2000s Megan Fox oops she's approaching 40. So not even Megan Fox is Megan Fox.
There's more stuff that isn't stuff. Hey, you want John Carmack to help work on the game you're working on? Tough, there's just one, and you're just some idiot in the middle of nowhere, he's not going to work with you on your thing. You want top artists to do your art for you? Tough, they've got options. You want top musicians to do the music for you? Tough, they've got 24 hours in a day and not one for you. Amy Hennig to be the creative director? Tough, she doesn't even know your name.
I wrote long ago that economics include money but don't necessarily require money. There's always going to be scarcity, and that scarcity is always going to be settled one way or another. Unlimited stuff from highly efficient factories can't change that. Human beings don't work that way, and neither does the universe.
Billions for Ukraine and other foreign aid, but for Americans suddenly there is no money to be found.
"The biggest drug cartels in the world get together, and buy up all the media and all the politicians… and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes… and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drug… and keep taking them over and over. I threw the script away. I mean, who’s gonna believe that crazy idea?”
- Woody Harrelson on Saturday Night Live
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/its-coming/
- Woody Harrelson on Saturday Night Live
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/its-coming/
Fully agreed that companies have way too much influence in politics in general where they should have none.
The scariest thing is that it isn't just politicians they have influence over, it's people. Just a handful of companies own all the TV networks, and many of the most influential websites report back to establishment media masters. We see certain people getting signal boosted, but who did that? Oh, look at that it's our corporate overlords or their partners in government. It's a situation where entire world issues are the puppets of the same company yelling at each other.
That's the biggest thing to remember: They've got overwhelming money, they can pay entire rooms full of the smartest people in the world to just sit and figure out how to get you to agree to whatever they want. They don't even need to be honest about what they're doing, so they might pretend they're against a certain thing because that's the easiest way to get what they want.
In that sense, it might be good for the world to muzzle corporations entirely. They aren't people, they're legal constructs, and as legal constructs they shouldn't have a voice. if their owners want to have a political opinion, they can speak themselves.
The scariest thing is that it isn't just politicians they have influence over, it's people. Just a handful of companies own all the TV networks, and many of the most influential websites report back to establishment media masters. We see certain people getting signal boosted, but who did that? Oh, look at that it's our corporate overlords or their partners in government. It's a situation where entire world issues are the puppets of the same company yelling at each other.
That's the biggest thing to remember: They've got overwhelming money, they can pay entire rooms full of the smartest people in the world to just sit and figure out how to get you to agree to whatever they want. They don't even need to be honest about what they're doing, so they might pretend they're against a certain thing because that's the easiest way to get what they want.
In that sense, it might be good for the world to muzzle corporations entirely. They aren't people, they're legal constructs, and as legal constructs they shouldn't have a voice. if their owners want to have a political opinion, they can speak themselves.
