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This calculation somehow assumes that clicking banners on your free time equals lost money in terms of production.

If the average time for toilet visits per day is 12 minutes, we are losing 89.8 million hours a day collectively across Europe, and continuing the same logic in as in the article, with 25€/h this sums to 5% of EU GDP being spent down the drain.

Maybe we should focus efforts on a productivity programme to ban bathroom visits?

Very snappy, neat demo

Agreed. The Great Filter theory has weak assumptions that a) all ”living” systems evolve in a similar way as the biological systems on earth, and b) that this evolution ”advances” somehow towards space expansion.

Our biological lenses make it seem like the complex system we call ”life” is the only similarly complex system that is possible in the entire universe.

I doubt 99% of humans can draw a ”chess game with a puzzle where white mates in 4 moves”

So you are saying that since Amazon paid no taxes they made absolutely no money on the sales? Arranging the company structure so that billions in profits are seen as losses in the bottom line is ridiculously easy and makes the whole corporate taxation system a joke.

You seem very arrogant discussing things that are purely theoretical (absolute zero objects). A healthy debate includes space for speculation, and you are shooting this speculation down with arguments like ”it just doesn’t work like that”, which does not bring anything to the discussion.