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France has sky high taxes and yet they run a 5% deficit. Cant cut social programs that are way too generous (in relation to income) so higher taxes it is.

Dont see that working in the long run

There is a giantic industry that does exactly that. Copart, IAR etc

Even Anti-AI tech now uses AI. How far we have come!

So lets do away with remote work again. Force people to come back to office

I feel for these people, certainly. There is no point lying to them though. We cant tell them everything is going to be alright just going to be how it used to be. That would be highly deceptive and immoral.

My implication is that being left behind is worse than other choices.

There are always people left behind by technological changes. Better move forward than cling to the past.

I wonder how much higher electricity costs would be without natural gas, fracking and nuclear.

People also have the right to move and that does affect tax liability

My point is that people want their short term economic needs met (food, shelter, quality of life).

You wont find broad support for policies that save an abstract future 40y away if you cause huge economic hardship on current people.

You can see how quickly support for addressing climate change erroded in the last few once more pressing short term needs of people were not met anymore. Academics and the upper middle class can keep theorizing about how to save the future because they can afford it while the less fortunate will turn to policies that dont hurt their short term prospects.

Bottom line is that ignoring the economic impact is foolish. No lasting political support

We dont have record low global crop yield. Are you confusing single countries with global output?

Its the other way around. Climate is going to be least important of your problems if you cant put food on the table.

Even LLMs understood my joke. Its probably time for you to make use of modern tools :)

Following that line of reasoning a turned off pc is the farthest ahead. Its extremly secure after all and has no apps ;)

Thats exactly what I mean. I dont care about Posix or the whining about "anti-features". The BSD stuff is a clear subset that doesnt get the job done.

Posix is more an art form documenting the far gone past rather than a practical tool