Re:Can Uber ever make money?
by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday April 28, 2019 @06:13AM
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The benefit would be discouraging people from having kids they can't afford
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but all the evidence would suggest that that isn't working. You can't just not pay people and they magically stop fucking.
Rather, the framework is broken. When we hyper-individualise everything, we end up with a world people can come to frame thoughts like the one you've expressed.
A world where everyone must own one of everything, and a spare, in order to survive. Where betterment is defined as having more and better things to throw in the garbage heap.
So that future archeologists may dig up our society and find the last of the great cetaceans, beached, with their bellies full of custom gift cards with your face printed on it.
And that is a sad state of affairs.
The more educated people are the fewer children they have. And we continue to price more and more people out of education because they lost the birth lottery.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but all the evidence would suggest that that isn't working. You can't just not pay people and they magically stop fucking.
Rather, the framework is broken. When we hyper-individualise everything, we end up with a world people can come to frame thoughts like the one you've expressed.
A world where everyone must own one of everything, and a spare, in order to survive. Where betterment is defined as having more and better things to throw in the garbage heap.
So that future archeologists may dig up our society and find the last of the great cetaceans, beached, with their bellies full of custom gift cards with your face printed on it.
And that is a sad state of affairs.
The more educated people are the fewer children they have. And we continue to price more and more people out of education because they lost the birth lottery.