john-h-k

None of it is against your will. You have no obligation to own a car or drive. If you want to use the _shared_ resource that is public roads, funded by everyone, you have to agree to certain terms (eg a license, insurance).

> For example, Irvine, CA has been one of the safest large cites in the US for decades. Why did they need flock?

Uhh, because getting safer is still better? Why the hell does the relative ranking matter?

> The US Department of Labor measures wages, and adjusted for inflation the hourly wage is below what it was in 1973.

This is just blatantly untrue according to your source.

Hourly wages have been consistently growing since the 90s, after the big retraction in the 70s/80s. They exceeded 1973 in 2019 and are higher now.

No way, I don’t buy it. If this is actually true I’ll eat my hat

This is meant to be biased???

> It's like 50% if you also count the stuff I pay for that is a direct benefit to me at retirement (as does anyone who pays into social security)

It’s not though. The social security you pay is used to fund the current social security payouts. It’s not saved away for you

So then we prefer the scenario where the employees are just forced to manage a declining company? Or we prefer it folding?

> and that can be arbitrarily far removed from practical utility

In which case it’s ~equivalent to not caring about utility

> The execs at Bending Spoon buy these SaaS services on the cheap, cut costs, jack up prices, and milk remaining users for as much cash as possible for as long as possible.

If they are such stable long term SaaS businesses who aren’t losing customers, why are they selling to bending spoons?

I had high expectations, there’s a lot of interesting content in this topic, but this is 22 points of low-substance buzzwording.

There’s no common theme, very little justification of any of the claims, and frankly very little to do with palantir

It’s public shared land. I think surveilling this is fine

The hard part of GitHub is scalability

Yeah it’s a weird example. Perfectly possible real strawberries with all their complexity extract more dopamine!