winfred

I don't think people would prosper under such a system. Free health care, yes, free education, yes. Retirement for all, take care of the disabled, yes.

But in my opinion, in today's society, if you take away the need for people to struggle (which UBI will do) they often end up in a worse mental and physical shape than if you make them suffer a bit. Just the way natural selection programmed us. "All basic needs are met <- conserve energy".

I can imagine a educational system where we prepare our children from childhood for UBI and it will work.

But given how rudimentary most education still is I don't see that happen anytime soon. Maybe in 100 years.

The way I see it, we already have that world, with capitalism functioning as a filter.

I worked my ass off to reach financial independence, now I'm dedicating the rest of my life towards helping other people.

I've proven to be capable of using the system to a degree where I can do whatever I want, which allows me the freedom to help other people full time.

It's not a perfect system, but I doubt UBI will be much better. At least capitalism filters out many of the people who shouldn't be helping others.

Helping those in need isn't something everyone should be doing. Not every needy person should be helped and helping others in desperate need incurs a mental cost that's not easy to carry.

>I've been to plenty of interviews where my CV hasn't been given more than a glance.

I have a fake programming language on my resume, has been there for years. To top it off, I used a well known video game cheat code.

I've been hired several times with that on my resume, so far no one has ever mentioned it.

>Also, you can't really "manage" your boss if he/she is gaslighting you. This is a criminal offense (or should be, depending on where you live) and must be punished accordingly.

It scares me that you can write these things without realizing the consequences and without being downvoted or having your comment removed.

"He/she said something that makes me doubt my reality, I want criminal prosecution." The level of policing that would take, is just unimaginable. The only societies that have come anywhere near this level of state control are East Germany, the Soviet Union and China. Your view would be a lot worse than those all together.

How about you just quit and find another boss and then we don't have to completely overhaul our society in a way we know doesn't work.

At some point, I tried this as an experiment. Instead of doing things myself, I tried to hire people to do it for me.

I tried a few different things, data labeling, custom sewing work, custom car modifications.

Turns out that the work was either done badly when it came to fairly common tasks or people refused to outright do it when it was custom work. I've seen the same thing when I looked at what happened when friends hired others.

Maybe there's a point where you have enough money to hire highly qualified people. But I doubt it's anywhere below $10M net worth. Below that you're just not likely to start handing out $150 per hour for what I would consider fairly standard yard or other work. At least I'm not.

Or maybe the trick is to hire a supervisor as well. So first you hire someone to do the work and then you hire someone to supervise it. Unless of course the supervisor also does a bad job. But then I can hire a supervisor for the supervisor.

Most likely I just wasn't good enough in the hiring process. So I probably should have hired someone to do the hiring for me. But what if I hired the wrong person, because I'm not good at hiring?

Now I'm sitting on piles of money and I'm still doing everything myself.

>For that matter, Arduino seems to somehow have stayed profitable in spite of getting murdered from every angle by the clones.

The clones are fine for simple stuff. But they really cut every corner possible, so even the chip is counterfeit, which means it doesn't behave like a real Arduino does. Deep sleep will use 1000x as much current on some clones compared to a real Arduino, for example.

You really can't only use clones. You have to develop/test on real Arduino hardware, then deploy to clones. Because the clones aren't reliable in their behavior.

> The way it is described (workers have 6 days on, 1 day off)

That's not what it describes.

> Eighty percent of the workforce were told to go to work; 20 percent to stay home. The continuous week began as a five-day cycle.

Every day 1/5th of the workers were off. So that's 4 days on, 1 day off.

That wasn't on that page when I opened it, you think I'd miss that? They were reading the comments here and updated the page after I wrote the comment.

The price was $4700 something, now it's $4945.

They simply smooth over it with this:

"So we will be using a rig cost of $4500 in our spreadsheet."

That way their overall math doesn't change. Should get banned for doing things like that. These guys are up to no good.

>I didn't read all their math but I expect their final result to be off by a factor of 2-5x.

I looked at their parts list and it's obvious they aren't serious. CPU is missing, memory is missing, SAS to SATA cables, but no SAS controller, no mounting for the system board. Low effort at best.

I prefer mid week days off (Wednesday, but I'd settle for Tue/Thu). I love to have work weeks of two days.

I can imagine there are plenty of other people that prefer the same thing.

Do you have any idea how much can go wrong with a human body and in how many different ways? And we're not even close to figuring out all the illnesses. Sure, brain cancer they can detect just fine, but try to go to a doctor because you're fatigued or have joint pain or other inflammation related issues. See the shit show you'll run into then. 9 out of 10 times they'll toss you through a few machines and then claim it's psychological.

Most doctors are just guessing, some are just better at making it appear they know what they are doing to improve placebo. I rather have a doctor that's using Google than one that thinks he knows what's wrong but doesn't fact check.