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Um, many airports are HIGHLY profitable where capitalism took on a Thatcherite turn.

I sudoect that airports can be far more portable than airlines, actually, since shopping, eating and drinking are much cheaper to deliver on the ground. And there’s parking too.

There are a LOT more elevators than when we had lift operators. Probably a lot more people employed globally in building, maintaining and operating them now too.

But yeah, disrupted careers is real. And the faster the economic or career discontinuity is, the harder it is for people to find new jobs or paths to new jobs.

Glad it’s about user directories!

With a couple of exceptions, my guess is that these migrations are part of the commercial negotiation pack of government procurement agencies.

At a certain point I’d expect that tech sovereignty concerns will tip while governments out of the US-vendor mindset.

I see well-described bugs that have been backlogged for 4 years out into the hopper of a simple harness-based bug fixer - and a tested, ready for review fix pop out USD2.40 later. This is game-changing for us and our customers.

I’m seeing quite decent data analysis work done by otherwise busy people that they’d never otherwise have the time to do, supported by readable python code showing how the stats were generated, and allowing us to run actual experiments and rerun the stats to see if the analysis and suggested actions has a meaningful impact.

I don’t know about whether the trillions and trillions of dollar people are barking up the wrong tree, but this stuff I’m talking about is cheap and easy and we see the results.

There was proven massive illegal funding of advertising for one candidate and the election result was annulled and rerun under the existing statutes and regulations under Romanian law, ordered by professional judges in a public legal process that was procedurally fair and had appropriate evidentiary requirements.

Stop parroting lines from organisations dedicated to delegitimising liberal democracies.

Deliberative and hopefully self-stabilising. Real directional change happens over the span of a decade, not a few months. All arms of government (including non-kingship executive) brought to a rough consensus of choice and consequences.

I may have had an early version of this at home in Indonesia as a kid. Given how close we were to both sea level and the equator, the fact that the water was cool, even when site power failed for days, was bliss!

The Netherlands seems to be more or less similar, although I’ve had a mixed bag with medical knowledge an experience during emergency care: excellent to middling.

When I lived for a while in the UK, my GP strongly suggested close monitoring for a couple of things, and we saw improvements in some measures with lifestyle changes. Others were “we’ll keep an eye on it, if it gets bad, off you go for an inpatient visit to get you an extra 10 good years”.

Back in the Netherlands I have to get pushy and even a bit obnoxious at my GP before they even consider the concern, let alone schedule a blood test.

Surely it’s smart business to encourage and potentially even profit from both sides of the fence?

New Zealand, Australia, many NZ and US dependencies in the Pacific, South Africa, some Caribbean countries and territories?

We’re now 50 years in on a personal computer revolution, and people on HN and elsewhere haven’t managed to escape industrial-style management thinking.

If we can have billions of people organised - in their time away from formal work - into small working groups (“families”) generating a crazy amount of value for themselves and their communities, with no overarching management structure, what is possible today?

Franchises are often very light on layers of management yet have hundreds of thousands of workers.

The larger the enterprise, the less it has to look like an industrial firm.

Information flow, coordination and oversight don’t require layers and layers of managers, it’s just that those managers prefer it, since they’ve never seen anything else, they get paid more for “their important work” and have status for managing managers.

Change that and we might be in quite a different, probably better world?

Just to add to your “no big fight” observation:

What in some countries is grad studies, is in other places undergrad, and in a personal high point, high school extension studies. In contemporary rich country education systems, it’s not just grade inflation, it’s very low expectations of the student population’s capabilities, in my opinion.