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Although, all that’s about to change since 1/3 of the planet’s fertilizer production was wiped out.
i wouldn’t worry about that too much. these things sound scary but we’re damn good at industry in basically any country these days, we’ll make new fertilizer somehow.
eh, i’d say, here in central europe, all the ingredients for a proper meal are to be had for probably 4€ (roughly $5) but still, restaurants add like a 300% markup to that or sth
i basically stopped going out to eat like a few years ago. i used to go to restaurants basically daily when it was like 6€ for a full, filling lunch. that was the good stuff.
now it’s like 8€ for a tiny sandwich and if you go to a “proper restaurant”, you easily pay 16€ just for the main course, then add drinks, etc. it’s just not worth it.
meanwhile if i eat at home, it’s basically never over 10€/day for all the day’s food. just mix potato salad with tuna and call it dinner, that’s what i do :)
basically “higher quality” laws always make it very difficult for new players (such as your friend) to enter the market, because you have to have a whole lot of assets to start. which means there’s less competition -> providers don’t have to optimize on price so much -> they can get away with higher mark-ups.
the same is happening with cars, and housing. in the EU for example they require that every car have a few extra sensors (such as driving assistance, check whether the driver falls asleep, etc.). this makes manufacturing cars more expensive -> cars get more expensive. we all (everyone who buys a car) pay for this. they “improve quality” (mandatorily) at our expense.
how to win at life:
es geht darum dass zwar das junk-food weniger gesund ist, d.h. höhere gesundheits-kosten, aber es fließt eben auch mehr geld (weil höherer verarbeitungsgrad -> mehr € pro kalorien), d.h. es steigert das BIP.
mehr BIP ist nicht im allgemeinen besser. wie dieses beispiel hier zeigt.
quantencomputer konnten immer schon bei raumtemperatur laufen, die frage ist nur, was dann noch der kohärenzgrad ist. also wie viele rechenschritten können hintereinander ausgeführt werden, bevor der zustand im system zerfällt?
edit: sry english translation:
Quantum computers have always been able to run at room temperature, the only question is what the degree of coherence then is. So how many calculation steps can be executed in a row before the system’s internal state decays?
ich erinnere mich daran gelesen zu haben dass strom kaum effizient weiter als ca. 300 km übertragen werden kann
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i never said that other people find all work unpleasant to do. there are many people who do a whole lot of activities voluntarily. (just look at how many people go to the gym, etc.)
But plenty of people, per OP, don’t “like” anything other than shoving food into their mouths, and sleeping.
so no, that’s not what i meant.
yeah ok, i didn’t mean to belittle you by explaining convergence and such, it’s just that i wasn’t sure what level of math education you got.
xD
how is it ridiculous and pointless? fixing software is a big concern to me.
i think you’re unreasonably assuming here that a revolution would happen everywhere on the planet at the same time. realistically, that’s not the case. you start with one place, then another, etc. and in the meantime you have exactly the problems that i cited. how to interact with other entities, etc?
well, the question is whether you enjoy the act of picking up a fruit and eating it, i guess. like, even if a full platter suddenly appears in front of you, you still have to shove the mass into your mouth. do you enjoy doing that? if not, then why do you eat?
why so? what makes humans non-animals?
also what kind of view is this? where is the meaning in that?
ok so what you’re describing here is that …
secondly, it seems to me that the point that “bourgeoisie” doesn’t work is a big problem to you. mind explaining why? is it because society desperately needs that 1% extra labor output? is it because of some “work is a moral must” mindset (quasi-religious)? is it for some other reason?
thirdly, it seems to me that you’re defining communism socialism as essentially our current society, just that CEOs don’t get huge bonuses and shareholders don’t skim company profit. so, in other words, our current world minus the stock market: every company has to emit zero profit (such that no shareholders gain from it) and all the money must instead be spent on the business itself: wages to workers and resource acquirements.
did i understand that correctly? would you add anything? do you think that this setup is already feasible in today’s legal framework through worker-owned businesses? (“co-ops” and what they’re called)
Put another way: no one should be obligated to participate in society, but then society should likewise have no obligations to the non-participants.
funnily enough, that is exactly what capitalism postulates. that those who don’t work, don’t deserve to eat. “useless eaters” and all that, my mother can (sadly) give you a long and stern lecture about that (she is very much what you would call a “conservative”).
capitalism re-formulates that by saying that you need money to buy food, but to get that money, you have to work. in other words, who doesn’t work, doesn’t get food. that’s why many people say it’s cruel and inhumane because it makes people suffer who don’t work. and that’s exactly why we have things such as social safety nets etc. where the state gives money to people sothat they can buy basic stuff with it if they are poor. because society at large revolts against the concept of “who doesn’t work, shouldn’t eat”. or at least that’s how it is in most (civilized) countries, except of course in america people don’t always see things that way.
well yeah subsidies, partially, but a whole lot of area in the US is good for grazing, but not good enough for grains. so cows are a natural way to use that landscape, otherwise it goes completely unused. that’s also a reason why there exists animal products in the first place.