gunslinger_meta

Sure, but for most humans except for some on the upper echelons of education and intelligence, discovering something new for the first time was never going to happen anyway.

I'm also not sure why anyone would attach importance to his opinions as a software engineer, he's exceptional in generating entertaining content but as an engineer he does not seem above average. Definitely not even close to the category of Jonathan Blow or Andrej Karparthy

Ah, our old pal scientific governance. I'm very curious to find out how it will turn out this time.

You are equating power to the people with power to the intelligentsia which means you are in for a huge surprise.

Did the corporate overlords spend a lot of money on the Democratic party in 2016 so that Bernie gets canned in favour of Hillary?

That's the stupidest thing I've ever read. If you think racing to the top produces inefficiency, racing to the bottom (Communism) produces even more, as evidenced by all the samples we have at this point.

You are arguing technicalities, your interlocutor is arguing overarching patterns.

I agree, what I'm arguing is that money != respect as the parent asserted.

There are tons of sex workers that rake in money that even FAANG engineers will never see in 10 lives (e.g OF 'models'). I doubt much of society has any respect for them though.

I wish society let nihilistic bums like you die of starvation instead of indulging your bullshit.

Revisionist history at its finest.

Do you believe that farming technology, freeing up 95% of humans to not have to toil in fields all day, was only beneficial to shareholders?

You do if they're bullying you for not joining.

Yeah it surely is lack of imagination - not the fact that humans have evolved hundreds of thousands of years to survive in resource constrained environments.

The problem is that the left, as everybody else, is judged by the behaviors of the systems it creates. Not by its professed goals and beliefs. Every time the left won (be it the USSR, Cuba, China, North Korea), it created less equality between the elites and the non-elites, not more - while at the same time completely eradicating the middle class.

For my friends everything; for my enemies, the law.

> Schröder also famously called Putin a "true democrat".

I do not get why you're mentioning this as an ironic thing. Dictatorship is the culmination of the democratic process. There are tons of historical examples at hand throughout history, just to name a few: Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Trump etc. they all channeled the democratic power of the masses to increase and consolidate their own power.

I would be surprised if California learned anything other than how politicians and civil servants can scam more money out of the tax-payer.