i think society would be better if they just handed out money to people no questions asked, but i suppose it's true some people might use it to be happy
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i think society would be better if they just handed out money to people no questions asked, but i suppose it's true some people might use it to be happy
@aeva ha I had a similar thought the other day
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here’s my 100 days in office as Canada’s prime minister: $1 million for every Canadian, no strings attached. What’s that, like, a $50 million budget? no AI data centres. just pure hard cash. pay off your debts, invest, do what you want. use the would-be data centre money to build houses for every single person including the unhoused. all of this would be exponentially cheaper and have more value to people.
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@aeva i place her as one of the main reasons why we have this stupid "government debt = household debt" nonsense, especially on this wet rock of dissapointment and depression...
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i think society would be better if they just handed out money to people no questions asked, but i suppose it's true some people might use it to be happy
@aeva Some people will use it to get way TOO happy
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"but how will we force people to work without the threat of poverty" buddy it's not like I'm gonna stop making video games
@aeva Most of the work people in my industry do makes my life, and the world at large, much worse. I would be happy if they just stopped working. We have the technology for the world to operate with maybe 10% of people working 5-20 hour work weeks when they want extra money or want to do things that excite them and everyone else just refraining from making the world worse and doing non work things that make it better as they like.
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@aeva if it is i demand to know where my money handouts from the government are
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@aeva Most of the work people in my industry do makes my life, and the world at large, much worse. I would be happy if they just stopped working. We have the technology for the world to operate with maybe 10% of people working 5-20 hour work weeks when they want extra money or want to do things that excite them and everyone else just refraining from making the world worse and doing non work things that make it better as they like.
I'll happily spend 40 hours a week doing science. What really grinds my gears is all the bureaucracy BS hustling for grant money.
Just give me a lab and a yearly total budget of ~250000€ for buying stuff, paying contractors and paying my salary from, and allow me to carry any leftover into the next fiscal year. I'll churn out royalty free medical imaging tech.
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I'll happily spend 40 hours a week doing science. What really grinds my gears is all the bureaucracy BS hustling for grant money.
Just give me a lab and a yearly total budget of ~250000€ for buying stuff, paying contractors and paying my salary from, and allow me to carry any leftover into the next fiscal year. I'll churn out royalty free medical imaging tech.
@datenwolf @aeva This. Even if you have a rate of 10% or even 50% cranks, this system would turn out more and better prosocial technology than capitalism ever could.
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i think society would be better if they just handed out money to people no questions asked, but i suppose it's true some people might use it to be happy
@aeva That's the opposite direction in respect to the invention of money itself.
Existence of money is the key to divide people between richness and poverty. If you let anyone live a decent life, regardless of money, then money looses its meaning. -
"but how will we force people to work without the threat of poverty" buddy it's not like I'm gonna stop making video games
@aeva Fears and traumata put people into "act dead" mode. So putting more fears on people's shoulders doesn't make them more proactive.
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ok i saw that post going around about how nobody can fucking read but come on guys this is not at all the status quo of neoliberal economics take your head out of your ass
@aeva for clarity, are you arguing that the economic situations isn't leading to the literacy crisis or something else?
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I'll happily spend 40 hours a week doing science. What really grinds my gears is all the bureaucracy BS hustling for grant money.
Just give me a lab and a yearly total budget of ~250000€ for buying stuff, paying contractors and paying my salary from, and allow me to carry any leftover into the next fiscal year. I'll churn out royalty free medical imaging tech.
@datenwolf@chaos.social @dalias@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place This is a big reason I left academia after my phd. Waiting weeks to months for approval to spend few hundred euros for the stuff needed for an experiment was mentally exhausting. -
@aeva i would be better at working if i had never been ground beneath the threat of poverty
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they literally can't run out of money they're the government they can just make more of it "but what about inflation" buddy we literally cannot run out of numbers
@aeva Tye threat of poverty and early death hasn’t eliminated those things under capitalism (it’s made it worse), so, yes, write a check and drain the accounts of every billionaire. Every. Single. One.
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I'll happily spend 40 hours a week doing science. What really grinds my gears is all the bureaucracy BS hustling for grant money.
Just give me a lab and a yearly total budget of ~250000€ for buying stuff, paying contractors and paying my salary from, and allow me to carry any leftover into the next fiscal year. I'll churn out royalty free medical imaging tech.
@datenwolf @dalias @aeva It was ever thus. A typical three year academic contract consisted of (and still does for all I know)
* one year scrabbling around to get the grants to buy the necessary kit
* one year doing actual work
* one year applying for the next three year job.
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@datenwolf @dalias @aeva It was ever thus. A typical three year academic contract consisted of (and still does for all I know)
* one year scrabbling around to get the grants to buy the necessary kit
* one year doing actual work
* one year applying for the next three year job.
@TimWardCam @datenwolf @aeva You're literally better off ditching the institution and running a YouTube channel on your research to fund it.
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@TimWardCam @datenwolf @aeva You're literally better off ditching the institution and running a YouTube channel on your research to fund it.
@dalias @datenwolf @aeva Nobody in the system (other than the victims) seems to ask "couldn't we try to do a bit better than a 33% efficiency rate?"
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i think society would be better if they just handed out money to people no questions asked, but i suppose it's true some people might use it to be happy
There's a,whole cadre of old politicians who spend every night lying in bed angry that someone is having more fun than they are. And determined to stop it.
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i think society would be better if they just handed out money to people no questions asked, but i suppose it's true some people might use it to be happy
@aeva this world needs a big reset button
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@datenwolf @aeva This. Even if you have a rate of 10% or even 50% cranks, this system would turn out more and better prosocial technology than capitalism ever could.
@dalias @datenwolf @aeva We'd be better off if most people did no work except cleaning up after themselves.
How much work does your pet cat do? Yet they bring joy to your life.
