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> The truth is that after the brief initial relief of excusing yourself from being anything at all, you'll end up in a deep depression.

So status quo lol?

There were certainly integral solving validators online when I took calculus in high school. At some point I gave up and just used that, because “the money is in web application development, I don’t need that calculus stuff”.

Big regret.

Edit: For reference, the regret came when I tried to do some RF related projects on the side. Those projects would likely have gone somewhere if I put some effort into even the basic calculus from high school.

> why not a bunch of local college kids

Western college kids are not nearly as subservient and likely to keep their own interests in mind and not offer dog-loyalty to a company that will lay them off at the any sign of turmoil.

I don’t care about a limit on net worth. I just want brutal punishment for corruption and other abuses of power.

The idea is to break the middle class. Blue or white collar it doesn’t matter. A politically active middle class is a danger to the designs of Silicon Valley ghouls.

> If that were to happen on a large scale, people could band together to provide security/resistance.

Oh wait. I’ve heard this one before. Just send in the national guard. A couple of well placed free speech donations with some winks and nods should be able to break that sort of terrorist organization.

> When information flows freely, what happens?

Mostly, the signal to noise ratio goes to hell.

What I’m really shocked is that mobile gaming is as dire as it is. My iPhone from some years back was capable of running full blown Civ6 and earlier total war games. Despite the hardware clearly being capable of running interesting, complex games, the market is dominated by shitty gacha games, copy paste puzzle games and scams.

> Meanwhile China reaches ever forward because they know that speed and endurance is everything in a race, not shooting oneself in the foot.

China reaches ever forward because they aren’t afraid to use power to crack down on anti-social or against the interests of the nation.

The US population into squeamish. Even nowadays as the sort of enlightenment liberal/libertarian culture amongst the US population starts to waver.

I suspect liberal democracy will slowly be on its way out over the coming decades in the west. It has proven to be too obstructionist against the desires of the elite class.