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  • Atlas_@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzResources
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    10 days ago

    You mad?

    Yes, to support everyone on what our economy outputs today will involve the quality of life decreasing for a lot of people. And the economy will have to change, to build the things that people need but are currently unable to pay for. This is unsurprising.

    Probably the living space is more to show this is feasible over it being the expected/desired solution. It would be very counterproductive to tear down good houses, but small apartments work well for “house single unhoused people”.

    Rural transport is a rounding error compared to the number of private cars that could be converted with minimal fuss in cities.

    Why would an export economy be a bad model? They literally have a surplus; all you need to do to fix it is… Make less?



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    10 days ago

    Bitcoin wouldn’t be an awful solution to this, but there’s certainly a few better ones, such as

    • Visa and MC just being the opinionless payment providers they ought to be.
    • Regulation enforcing all payment providers to be similarly opinionless.
    • Ethereum, or another crypto more suited to many, fast payments
    • A layer-2 network over Bitcoin that can enable many fast payments, such as the lightning network.



  • Maybe something could be hacked together to fix copyright, but further complication there is just going to make accurate enforcement even harder. And we already have Google (in YouTube) already doing a shitty job of it and that’s… One of the largest companies on earth.

    We should just kill copyright. Yes, it’ll disrupt Hollywood. Yes it’ll disrupt the music industry. Yes it’ll make it even harder to be successful or wealthy as an author. But this is going to happen one way or the other so long as AI can be trained on copyrighted works (and maybe even if not). We might as well get started on the transition early.








  • Atlas_@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldthis lemmy?
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    3 months ago

    I got a lot of down votes, but ^ is exactly the point. A man being raped by a woman is so far outside of everyone’s thoughts that it doesn’t even cross their mind when seeing an image like this. But the same joke with genders reversed would get people with pitchforks.

    I don’t think there was any actual rape here, as the comedian considers these encounters consensual. Which is the important bit factually. But if you couldn’t even imagine interpreting it that way then maybe you should think about why not?