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Lower search and ad revenue.

Yet the systems that have attempted to answer those questions on a holistic basis have failed.

What does that tell you?

It’s super easy to get whatever survey results you want by careful tweaking of wording.

Not to mention how often people misinterpret a survey and add their own bias to the results.

It’s hilarious to see “AI fears” in the headline when the truth is Google missed its earning estimate.

I’d say it’s more than revenue growth is below estimates than any “AI fears”

The system would be gamed by the politicians.

Insert language you know will never get enough votes

Don’t strike out but add language to make it useless

Plus the bill sponsor often makes changes others ask for, so the true author isn’t noted

It would be a mess and ignored by the public after a while

People keep thinking “healthy” politics is a lack of dissent. I hear this all the time from people.

When I lived in Singapore I heard how lucky they were to live in a country where there wasn’t much disagreement (the truth is it had been squeezed out of the population)

Canadians can’t help it. They’ve been spoon fed their whole lives whenever they complain that “yeah but we’re not the US!” (even if the US does better on that particular issue)

As a former drug discovery scientist I agree with the “small help” conclusion.

Find “potential leads” is something we did plenty of with computational chemistry. We’d get leads that we a “slam dunk” and they’d fail horribly in clinical trials.

Finding leads is easy, finding leads that reliably pan out in the lab is not

You’re basically agreeing with me.

You put your family’s needs on the same footing as your own. And you put those two needs far above people outside your family.

That’s exactly my point.

People sometimes act in the good of everyone, usually when the cost isn’t high. But otherwise they act in benefit of themselves or their group, often at the expense of the out group.

You don’t need capitalism for that to happen.

Your reply had nothing to do with my comment. Your example is not even a food, but rather an addictive drug.

Reading comprehension is important!

> those foods are altered in ways to make them literally irresistible. This happens when companies use a combination of salt, sugar and fat to create foods that overstimulate the taste buds — and yet are designed to never quite leave you feeling satisfied

This seems entirely made up. Are you telling me food companies test their food for "never feeling satisfied"?

It's almost like cities are good for single young people, and suburbs are good for families!

The best examples of enshitification are in airlines and electronics. Those are highly competitive markets where manufacturers are free to charge high prices for high quality, but they realize customers won't buy it.

The evidence is all around you. You just have to open your eyes.

Sure humans are cooperative, but but it's not an either/or scenario. Humans are often incredibly selfish at times, and even if not selfish are often focused on benefit for themselves.

And my point is that it's not unique to capitalism. Even prior to capitalism and under communism, humans are highly focused on benefit for themselves, even at the expense of others.

> Capitalism is good at driving down prices for consumer goods, also great at extracting rents from essentials (housing, medicine, education, etc). You gain on trinkets and lose on the things that make life worth living.

I find it funny when capitalism is blamed for rent extraction.

First off, extracting profit is not unique to capitalism. It happen in the Soviet Union as well, just on the black market. Even in the legal market workers would "sell" things they had control over for personal benefit. It's not like this disappears with other economic systems - it's a core human behavior to do things that benefit yourself.

Second, almost all of the things you listed - housing, medicine, education - are rent extractions not because of capitalism, but because of government regulations that allowed rent extraction. If people could build as many houses as they want, treat patients without jumping through the AMA quota hoops or charge a tuition that students can actually afford (and not backstopped by the government), none of this rent extraction would happen. We have plenty of examples of those economic sectors where prices are much more reasonable.