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Devaluing the stock market would be a good idea since it would detach people's retirement funding from the decisions made by mobs of speculative gamblers.

But would require a return to pension funds or some other collective funding.

Shares do not require sales to achieve more equitable distribution. They merely require dilution.

Obvious false equivalency fallacy.

Everyone you don't like is Hitler.

Democracy is not just when more than one "party".

Just because a fascist or fascist adjacent party is disallowed, does not mean democracy is absent.

Completely ignores externalized costs, and focuses entirely on purely end-user retail costs to operate, not even vendor internal operational costs. Can't even find the words "energy" or "electricity" or "scale" in the post. Whatever point this person is making, it is of such dramatic limitation that I am going to contentedly ignore it. Point people at this all you like, Juho Snellman. I for one will merely ignore you.

Also laughably excludes this one from openai's pricing details:

o1-pro-2025-03-19 Price per 1M tokens Batch API price -- Input: $150.00, Output: $600.00

And this doesn't even address quality. Results quality is also explicitly ignored. I personally find most results from cheaper models to be far, far worse than any results I find using search prior to the LLM content flood. But of course, that's 1) subjective, and 2) completely impossible to conduct any analytical comparison now since indexed search has been so completely ruined by SEO and LLM junk. Yet another externalized cost for which accounting is completely impossible, but is likely to have immeasurably negative impacts on the world's ability to share information.

This is suddenly a too-online conversation. Please do go be always kind to murderers. Society is definitely better off without anybody agreeing to value respect for human life and dignity -- just so generic and subjective! Too hard to get anybody to agree on what that even means!

In practice there are always exceptions to everything. You don't be kind to murderers, for instance.

Kindness isn't really a value, though.

Shared values are simply things that people decide are important for a society to function as well as possible. Respect for human life and dignity, for example. Good thing right? How many mental gymnastics does somebody have to go through to find some exception to that?

Tell you what though, if I come across somebody who says that they don't respect human life and dignity, I am absolutely going to avoid that person and shun them from any kind of society that I am a part of.

Seems like a not difficult and quite worthwhile exercise to come up with at least one or two values that are so basic and fundamental that everyone could share them. Maybe that's what OP is talking about. Why be obtuse about shared values?

What reason might that be?

Oh, because you think they are dumber than you?

Well they are going to have to suffer the consequences of your smarty-pants bad decisions for way longer than you, so I say, we give them a vote proportional to the statistically average remaining years they have left on this planet.

You people are seriously some of the very worst kind of people.

Being a relentless and unstoppable proxy for an infinite set of mailing lists from which you can never be removed is pure insidiousness.

Shame on anyone who goes to work for you ever.

Medicare for All covers pretty much everything.

"All Americans would have coverage for comprehensive health care services, including hospital stays; emergency room visits; doctor visits; substance use disorder treatment; dental, vision, and mental health services; long-term care; and reproductive health care. Depending upon income, prescription drug cost sharing would be capped at $200 annually." -- https://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/news/20191120/medicar...

Obviously, there might be some edge cases. This is where private insurers could still fill a role. I can't imagine that extra/supplemental private insurance could be too expensive, if it had to compete against a unified 350 million+ person insurance pool.

Edit: It is worth noting that the US is pretty unique when it comes to the separated dental insurance coverage plans and main health insurance plans.

Yes.

"All Americans would have coverage for comprehensive health care services, including hospital stays; emergency room visits; doctor visits; substance use disorder treatment; dental, vision, and mental health services; long-term care; and reproductive health care. Depending upon income, prescription drug cost sharing would be capped at $200 annually." -- https://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/news/20191120/medicar...

It is worth mentioning that if the Senate bill version of Medicare for All becomes the law of the land, then previously employer-funded healthcare becomes one less thing for union leaders to have to negotiate with employers.

If they are the most demanded skills in tech, then do practitioners command the highest compensation for those skills?