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So, pilot wave theory remains a strong intuitive model, by confirming an inability to perfectly predict the future state of a system of quantum events.

Greetings, fellow human! I, too, am excited by the idea of an emergent material phenomena somewhere between oil spills and a small pox pandemic!

Addendum to The Great Universal Basic Income Debate:

  A large portion of UBI funds will 
  get dumped into places like this.

Oh man, here comes the grey goo.

  When people eventually become too poor to 
  continue working as drivers or paying for 
  rides, UBI supplies the required cash infusion 
  for the business to keep operating.

So, that's the big problem? It's just some calculated ploy to subsidize small time freelancers within a side hustle economy?

The rest of the article is simply philosophical grandstanding about how UBI is really a figurative IV drip in the ICU being a secret plot by hospitals in order to keep people as patients forever.

I don't implicitly trust governments or corporations. The concept of an aggressive company like Uber, an organization that analyzed greyballing their data to subvert lawful behavior, is certainly one to operate their users exploitatively.

But, a supplemental pay check that means the difference between not eating plus getting evicted, contrasted against just hanging out and safely waiting for business to pick up again, in between seasonal dry spells, available to anyone, especially those who normally operate odd jobs as a career, this isn't some sinister trojan horse to lock people into a no-options future of scooter charging.

When people are facing eviction and starvation, and the very cold reality of getting locked into living on the streets, homeless, there are bigger problems at large, and worth fixing.

Universal Basic Income can change the world, but it's not a siren song assuredly leading to total powerlessness. It can't protect people from their own bad decisions. It is probable that both sides might employ behaviors that take advantage and game the system. But that doesn't mean this won't do a lot of good, and solve real problems for a lot of people who need the help.

  *Who wouldn't* imagine something like this?

I think the point is that, if you click through a checkout funnel, you should try to keep at the front of your mind, a musty, industrially lit concrete warehouse, and not the graphical elements presented to you within the DOM of an HTML page.

The quote attempts to paint a gloomy picture, but honestly, I don't conceptualize anything more terrible than a Home Depot. As a geek, I've loitered in the unfinished environs of warehouses for longer than might be considered practical, and never found it to be torture precisely. But, you know, some people get really uptight about uncarpeted indoor expanses that don't have windows with fashionable dressings to draw closed.

Not sure what it is about planned interior decor, versus unfinished construction. Some people tend toward comparisons of urban blight, versus parks and recreation.

I will say this, though. Fuck open office floor plans, for entirely different reasons.