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Food shortages could cause this but it would also cause riots/conflict before anything. Lack of heating could also do it. It won’t be an extinction level event, just a culling.
I foresee that before all else. It won’t take much, just sudden infrastructure shocks.
I suspect it’s similar in VC funding. You are just a company that sorta fits a conventional loan. In the macro sense, just a few need to hit, but they could care less about your special little company. You are packaged to investors.
I imagine a world where the government buys startup backed securities to prop up the tech sector, in which case you’ll see even more startups. Right now it’s any Joe Schmo with money that act like the Fed.
That way everyone and their mother can grab a loan for a house and a company, it’s a macabre form of socialism, uniquely American - so long as you make the monthly payments. Truthfully If I was a lender I’d have all my startups go public within a year and start paying back the debt via cashing out their stock, because that’s way more predictable than hoping your company becomes profitable or useful.
Without side tracking the discussion too much, how is everyone so sure the rise in inflation is what it is? Wouldn’t the rise in prices be more attributable to supply shocks of the last two years? We know housing is shocked due to inventory, along with cars due to semiconductors, and general electronics (still can’t click buy-it-now on a PS5 at MSRP, still near $1k). How can this be inflation? How are they sifting supply and demand out of the equation?
Inequality has been so high for so long, that I can’t imagine even 10 trillion dollars of global money shifting the pendulum in the other direction like this. Most people didn’t put that stimulus money into assets, it should have technically vanished (aaaaaand it’s gone - South Park) into consumerism.
He should really stop digging that tunnel giiiirl
Fuck you I’m building the tunnel.
Regardless, I consider anyone operating in humanity to be mentally ill in general. It’s just, how much of your mental illness impacts the rest of us, and how much of it is abstracted away so we can quickly label it harmless (mostly to the rest of us).
Digging a tunnel the closest shit to “ain’t bothering me” as it’s going to get.
Now, if your nonsense pushes you to monopolize industries and abuse labor for profit, yeah, now your mental illness is on blast.
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Few would consider that the GF is mentally ill, so obsessed with how it would look to others, so obsessed with how it’s non conforming.
Dig the fucking tunnel.
I’m sure Firebase can do it too.
There’s a ton of options, you won’t go wrong.
So, nothing is stoping us from tranpiling Python to new or old ecmascript.
But, I think you’ll see that it won’t solve much. You are just turning one turd into a lesser turd. The problem is fundamentally deeper. The browser and web server tech was not built for app development. That’s the bottom line.
We’re starving for innovation.
It’s better to look at this from China’s vantage point. Truly, enough housing to house Spain is not enough. Perhaps for Spain it is, but we’re talking about housing China - 1bn people.
As for tech, I don’t think we’re even close to saturating the globe with technology. We’re in such an infancy that we literally need something like Starlink to get everyone connected.
We’re nowhere close to it.
Yeah, it’s not a place to “park” money. That idea at this point sounds like conspiracy theory stuff.
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Bare minimum the apartment building can work to install wall outlets in the garage, or very long extension cords.
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That’s not asking for a lot from a building.
It has a chance of becoming an insane dark pattern, especially if they jam ads in between.
It can be exhausting for sure. It’s a mutation of self-pity, which is a mutation of self-absorption, if we had to root cause analyze this.
To put it simply, we have a very vain and narcissistic society at this point. We can’t clearly pin point if this is a modern advent or truly an everlasting dynamic of humanity (has it always been here, and will it always be here?). In the contemporaneous, all we can do is contemplate if it’s particularly worse right now, but, that in itself is … also self-absorption.
I think people who have energy for conspiracy ideas should find a healthy outlet like fiction. Similarly, those who are in the higher end of the self-absorption spectrum (most everyone I’ve met), should find a healthy place to put that like Philosophy. Contemplate existence and Cogito, ergo sum. The low level “how do I, me, and past me and future me, continue being me and finding meaning in me, myself and I, and feel good about it”.
Overall, it’s a form of egotism to recommend such people seek therapy. That’s putting one of the most common human traits on a pedestal. As in, your vanity is soooo serious that you need clinical professional help - lol. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen that ridiculous recommendation for run of the mill stuff. Half the reason these things become compulsive pattern thoughts is because we validate it.
Take a Philosophy 101 Couesera course over a glass of wine, and laugh about it. I promise you the “I find no meaning at work” questions will become hilarious soon enough.
And there it is, the grand hypocrisy. I just ultimately gave some self-help advice.
Go. To. Medical. School.
Stop thinking a Bachelors in STEM is enough. It’s a not a bet. The literally moronic other majors half of you pick is a bet. I’ve seen all of your resumes and there is literally totally dumbfounded major choices.
In fact, I’ll go as far as to say web development will create less of a life for you long term than most other STEMs. People in serious STEM majors just don’t want to put the work into post-bachelors education and cop out. We all know this.
Inference.
It’s better to get paid $0 being in the right field for a bit than actually being paid in the wrong path. It’s negative money unless you are using it to pivot into the right path via education.
Which brings me to an aside, College for many people is a good example of a dead-end job. Not only did you not get paid, but someone also took your money wasting your time down a trail that many people pivot out of (your Classics majors that switch to Dev, congrats on paying to be led astray for 4 years).
But software can also be a dead end job if you chased the money and went off the trail of the path you should have kept investing in.
All this shit takes vision honestly.