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I recommend the reading of Atlas Shrugged to really understand why this is a bad idea.

These cookie banners are so bad. Bad idea, bad regulation, bad execution. The time wasted for all humans in the world dealing with such a bad idea is out of the charts.

If I don't want to be tracked I will use an anonymous tab or configure my browser to not allow any cookies. The solution already existed. The people that care about it already knew it. The companies would come up with something better if there was a real problem, with people being worried about to the point of changing browser.

Ayn Rand was right and still is. We live in the age of envy. Hatred of the good for being the good. Useless waste of time for all human beings to hurt a few big successful companies because of tiny, envious people with the excuse to protect some helpless citizens.

It's fun being productive, being exceptional, being really good at what you do. It's the most fun I have in life, and I have done all sort of things (including drugs). I'm sorry the author doesn't have this worth living for, fulfilling feeling.

You have the wrong philosophy. A wrong interpretation of reality. Depression is inevitable. Have you ever asked yourself what a "good person" means? And why? Because it is written in a book? Because others told you so? Use your mind and senses, use Aristotle's achievement of how to interpret reality correctly: logic. Read "The Virtue of Selfshness" by Ayn Rand and live the best life you can.

I wish Brazil, which is really a Banana Republic, had the same wealth and quality of life of US. The article doesn't know what a Banana Republic really is, and is downsizing how awful is live in a real Banana Republic.

Because I love what I do.

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

Common saying amongst reasonable people.

I thought it would have other comments like yours. Yes, this and climate change research. Just look at the history of those research fields.

Between taxing the consuming or the producing of goods, tax the consuming. When the consume happens is where profit is made. If I produce a bunch, but don't sell anything, I payed a lot of taxes for nothing. Not fair at all.

This reminds me of an old joke:

3 businessmen are in prison, and they ask each other why each one is there.

- I'm here because my prices were lower than the other companies, so I was charged for dumping the other companies.

- I'm here because my prices were higher than my competitors, so I was charged for economic power abuse.

- Well, I'm here because my prices were equal than everyone else, so I was charged for cartel formation.

I prefer Ayn Rand's take on it:

Without abstract ideas you would not be able to deal with concrete, particular, real-life problems. You would be in the position of a newborn infant, to whom every object is a unique, unprecedented phenomenon. The difference between his mental state and yours lies in the number of conceptual integrations your mind has performed. You have no choice about the necessity to integrate your observations, your experiences, your knowledge into abstract ideas, i.e., into principles.

Your only choice, is whether your principles are true or false, rational or irrational, consistent or contradictory. The only way to know which they are is to integrate your principles.

What integrates them? Philosophy. A philosophic system is an integrated view of existence. As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation—or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by- your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: selfdoubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind’s wings should have grown.

Philosophy is a science. Aristotle answered the essence of theses questions 2400 years ago. He may have commit some mistakes, but the essence is there.