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Comment by Daishiman | Hacker News Reader

It is _wild_ seeing how the US is deliberately reducing state capacity in every area that would result in improvements to everyone, even the capitalist class it would be supposedly benefiting.

The American Dream looks more and more like being a temperate, humid petrostate.

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By increasing the gap between have and have-not, and making most things shittier (and escape from the shit more costly), the privilege of money increases. Amazing that everyone is so peaceful. One group just takes it all.

Thanks Marc, Peter, Elon, Jeff, Mark!

People have been declaring the American dream dead before any of us were born.

We're suffering from unusually poor governance, but it'll hardly be the first time.

We will do a 180 and start walking the other way in 3 years. And then 4 years after that will be back here again. As is tradition.

America never dies, it just walks in circles aimlessly while others march ahead in a mostly straight line laughing at us.

You are drastically underestimating how incompetent this government is compared to all others that preceded it and how deep the loss of expertise hits. You do not recover from lost bureaucratic competence for decades.

Eroded public trust in government is however a good thing. Our biggest mistake as a supposedly free country was trusting centralized entities to forever act in accordance with the will of the majority.

As a society we need to stop asking for permission to fix potholes. Just go fix them and dare them to fine you for it which would be catnip for journalists to call more attention to the dysfunctional government.

NASA should crowdfund the weather satellites, with tax deductible donations, like right now. I would support them staying in the sky.

Spoken like someone who has never lived in a country with limited state capacity.

These people genuinely believe that superintelligent AI will solve all the problems and all this climate noise is impeding progress.

They will sit there in front of a data center like in hitchhikers and will get an answer (maybe it's 43) they don't like or don't understand and the solution will be to build an even bigger machine.

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