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wealth inequality worse than the French revolution

When the creator of the Revolutions podcast was asked about the one theme that follows every revolution, he said that it was wealth inequality.

If I remember correctly, the French revolution had three major elements that kicked it off the way it did: huge wealth inequality, a major event that hits the lower classes (in this case a drought that destroyed lots of crops and therefore caused a wheat shortage), and incompetent leadership that is unable to deal with said event. Looks like the US is getting there, step by step.

I think I understand your position.

In a previous post, you seem to give value to functioning as opposed to being dead. Why is that? Why does functioning even matter if your position seems to be that death is the absolute worst thing that can happen to someone?

because I believe that death is the least functional state a person can have and anything above that implies at least some functioning even if that state is still highly undesirable).

A person can lose all brain functions and remain alive, implying that there is no chance of making new experiences of any kind. Does that count for you as functional?

I do not really believe that there is such a thing as a "fate worse than death"

What about unimaginable suffering before one's certain death? Would this not qualify as a worse fate than death?

I don't really have a strong opinion on this topic, but one example comes to mind that shows that many people don't act according to your maxime. Have you ever seen those battlefield suicides that are filmed by the drones in Ukraine? I'm not going to link them here, but they are plentyful. So, so many soldiers, many of them wounded, decide to take their own life to avoid going through an experience that they probably view as worse than death. I just think it's interesting and worth considering.

Expect it to happen and explain the risks, but that doesn't mean you should make it easy.

Why?

This is facilitating that situation.

Facilitate what situation of exactly?

The sex is going to happen around that age, but as a parent it is still not your job to make it easy, yeah?

Why?

consequences of mistakes are still VERY HIGH

Not as high as letting your kid drive a car, for example, but you're still gonna let them, I suppose. Weird double standards.

If you're not fascinated by computers and you're not sure if you want to really dedicate your career to it, I'd really think twice about going into CS. If you want to get into programming/development, you can either do that by learning specific languages and building stuff, or study something technical that interests you.

Nowadays, programming is very much required in any STEM related fields if you want to keep up with the times. I myself have an Aerospace Master's degree but have been mostly doing software related things in my career and am now a data engineer at an aircraft manufacturer. None of my data science colleagues studied CS, neither did the data engineers that I work with.

Just one perspective. Don't give up, you've got this!

Markets should be free, trade should be open, industries should be monopolized and the masses should be exploited.

ftfy

Here in Germany the far right is painting him as a commie :)

In the end, we're just training some non-artifical intelligence.

Another one of those Schrödinger's jokes.

Technically they were engineered from the ground up to send a small projectile as far as possible using a chemical reaction.

I'm referring to this bit: they are not technically engineered to simply shoot a projectile. They are engineered for a specific purpose, which is to kill people. Your comment sounds like you want to downplay the role of requirements in the engineering process, like a lot of people here do.

You don't know the first thing about requirements engineering. Technically, these assault rifles are primarily designed to kill/injure people, it's 100% part of the stakeholder/requirements analysis in their systems engineering workflow.

An airliner is not designed to fly through the air. It's designed to transport people and cargo from A to B within a given amount of time. Flying is just a means to achieve it.

There's no shortage of resources available from feminists, trans advocates and medical professionals online

If they're so abundant and easy to find, then why not simply share them? You can also link the other posts that explain your position.

confidently spread their harmful ignorance

If he has such an uninformed position, it should be very easy to defend against it instead of wasting everyone's time by making ad hominem attacks? Maybe we can make the internet a better place by not spewing toxic abuse even if one feels attacked by an opinion, no matter how uninformed it is?

You are defending your ideology in the worst way possible, and believe me when I say this, but you will never convince anyone beyond your closed bubble of why we need to move forward as a society this way.

How about you try to enlighten him then, instead of throwing verbal abuse at him. He stated his opinion and you are free to debate him on that.

The fact that he gets attacked like this for his opinion is why I don't engage in these discussions. Your kind of reaction will lose all support for your cause.

Hey very interesting comment. I have a question: in which step do you normally pay the manufacturer in your example? Is this also handled via the agent?

Hilariously that's what every toothless Russian drunkard says when you ask them about the war.

Neither am I for the end of Ukraine.

They can threaten all they want, it's simply not possible. If it actually was possible, they'd have done that a long time ago.

You're wrong.

Yes, it is.