yrimaxi

So you’re just going to whine about tone? Not even try to argue for or against what I have put forth?

Chances are that you spend more time than that feeling resentful that the big bad strangers on the internet don’t feel even a pang of shame just because you told them to.

Most patrons of a store are not the store owners’ peers.

> but I can’t understand deciding it’s ipso facto irrelevant because you’re a programmer.

The negation of “everyone should know this” is not “no one should know this”. I can understand that someone would protest to a claim about how “everyone should X” by giving a blanket statement like “no I shouldn’t”, but I interpret that as hyperboly in this case.

You went from Eugene Debbs to fairytale-spinning court jester in the span of four paragraphs. That’s impressive.

Chomsky has explained that the counter-culture of the 60’s was viewed as the “crisis of democracy” by the Trilateral Commission. An excess of democracy: special interests like women, the elderly, environmentalists, ethnic minorities, and so on were trying to enter the public arena. In short: the general population.

(What is a non-special interest? Business interests.)

It is completely illogical to immediately conclude that people who are complaining and pointing out that things are not right are necessarily themselves the cause of all that strife. Maybe they were responding to antecedent causes?

> EDIT: I think the guy who started Huawei said something to the effect of when you are a millionaire, you only care about yourself, but when you are a billionaire, you are all the sudden responsible for a lot of people. I wish that attitude permeated our business schools and boardrooms.

That’s what the poors need; noblesse oblige oligarchy.

Cost to whom? Imagine all the lost revenue if people would have a rational basis to trust each other more. Less transactions due to more informal exchanges must mean lost revenue to someone.

Everything I know is personal. Most of it is not something I want to share, nor is it useful to anyone else.

I haven’t made a personal wiki before but I do keep a fair amount of personal notes (without any cross-referencing rigor).

It’s an analytic science.