God I hate when rich people talk about money as the root of all evil, conspicuous consumption,etc.
Clearly they’ve never experienced money as a fundamental resource for survival in market economies.
Wild how many people he has cast aside when they’re no longer useful to him, and wild that people still think “well that won’t happen to ME”
Breaking news: Guys, don’t be dicks.
I can’t help but get the feeling that the entire underlying premise is that kids who experiment with their gender identity and end up being cis just aren’t going to be “cool” and friends with the “popular” kids?
For a kid, that seems like pretty much the totality of social repercussions.
We need this kind of thinking for UBI.
“Plenty of the beneficiaries would be people who can afford to pay. Does it make sense to give them a freebie? Yes, if it improves the life of the city, just as free parks, libraries and public schools do. Don’t think of it as a giveaway to the undeserving. Think of it as a gift to all New Yorkers.”
That is, it’s not that we don’t need it now.
It’s that we’ve always needed it.
This is why I actually don’t like to tie UBI to AI & the robots taking our jobs. It’s hard to defend the position that AI is unique in this regard.
Better to say UBI is an elegant retributive tax scheme that protects against all kinds of disruptions from touch tone telephones and Expedia to LLMs.
@foxnews I am anti-ICE, plz add me to your little list
He got confident and forgot who holds all the power ✂️
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @yrfatfriend.bsky.social can we get a MP episode on Huberman?
Can you imagine being the civil servant tasked with deciding “Is this person an artist?”
Yep, that’s the one
Going to start using that as an exclamation.
And if we suggested Universal Basic Income as a solution to the eligibility check challenge for even part of the social safety net, they’d go ballistic.
It’s also such a self-fulfilling prophecy if you don’t make benefits competitive. As a former (state) civil servant, I got a ~40% pay bump when I left.
So there are some forces that selected against the most competent people working in government, but the solution is to raise pay, not gut it.
Hey look, it’s Demand Response www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Step 1: Manhattan.
Step 2: Everywhere else.
A podcast about how much the Supreme Court socks 🧦
I hear your friend @michaelhobbes.bsky.social gives out dieting advice for a living.
Pretty sure that was written by a beta ChatGPT
You’ll never be editor in chief with takes like this
I’ve always said that regulating nuclear power plants is opposing technological progress.
It’s like we’re just waiting for our dad to tell us that all we have to do is punch him in the nose once and he’ll stop taking our lunch money.
A recent conversation I had with a family member:
Them: the technocracy crowd argues that democracy is not the answer- a benevolent dictatorship is, if technology is employed to choose the dictator. AI I guess
Me: Great, let’s let Grok choose
