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If as a driver you get told by the control centre to get the train moving again at maximum line speed, surely you should be able to trust that it is safe to do so?

I don't see how this would fall on the drivers at all.

> I care about my neighbours because I know them. I don’t care about the next town because they might as well be same as people living in Tokyo.

Fair enough, but many have the ability to empathise with people even if they don’t know them personally.

> Otherwise why would anyone else (someone else living on the other side of the world) care? People have their own countries to fix let alone worry about other peoples problems.

Do you care about your neighbours? How about people in the next town over? Why should that concern stop at the border of your particular nation state?

My understanding is that a clinic or hospital can’t legally charge you for a procedure that’s universally available through the provincial healthcare system.

So you’re free to pay for anything else if you want.

Is there a technical reason why phone numbers would be easier to spoof in North America than other places?

Anecdotally I’ve not heard as much about it being a problem in other places such as the UK.

My point is that, unless you think that the purpose of human existence is to maximise insurance profitability and mining throughput, lifetime earnings potential is not a good proxy for someone’s value to society.

I think it is sad that many of the people that have the largest positive impact on society — teachers, care assistants and the like — are also some of worst paid.

> Who produces the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the energy you use, the medicine you consume, etc

You could say the same thing about software engineers. But someone spending their days just creating JS frameworks is oh-so-productive and paid enough money every month to buy several years’ worth of food and shelter.

£7 is about the price of a pint. Surely that’s worth it given the convenience of driving right up to the front door of the terminal?

That’s true. But in a world with monthly toothbrush subscriptions one of those end states feels much closer than the other.

I always thought the “you will own nothing” expression referred to a Gini coefficient of 1, not 0.

The intent of abolishing private property would presumably be the latter.

> It kind of feels like these countries rediscover summer every year.

The graphs in the article somewhat disprove that.

> EU regulators on Tuesday slammed Apple

This reads more like a tabloid headline than the first sentence of a Reuters article.