You’re welcome, and yeah fair enough. I’m a big believer that there is a structure for every scenario and desired outcome. I think most flat structures (including communism) haven’t worked historically because people are too culturally engrained with classism. Plenty of non western “tribal” cultures seem to make flatter structures work perfectly well, though I obviously don’t agree with every aspect of their cultures either

Yeah not having a government issued email is completely bonkers in this day and age. They should never have allowed Google to fill that gap.

I agree with everything you said apart from the last bit. “even rich people can be idiots” implies that they are less likely to be idiots than your average Joe.

Half the supermarkets in the UK are co-ops. I would start there and see what happened historically to enable this.

You’re assuming that jobs are allocated to people/AI based on merit or competence or some other logical metric.

Just like the correlation between the cost of a product and it’s quality, these used to be true, but have become increasingly decoupled or even inversely correlated as marketing and sales tactics (or more simply, propoganda) have become more and more effective.

Edit : my bad, I didn’t read your entire comment properly. Yeah, I think companies that hire people and only use AI sparingly will survive better. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see the majority of the global economy to collapse beforehand though

Yeah that’s true

Yeah it is insane how many of them have no higher education, or conversely simply got a PhD and have never worked in industry before

I mean, yes, but not nearly as much

Na they’re long - they’re sitting 2 rows back /s

Don’t worry buddy, I get it. I feel the same way about USA

This is an incredibly frustrating part of my work with startups. I do economic assessments for climate tech, and if it doesn’t work on paper then you can be damn sure it won’t magically start working in the real world. There are millions of reasons a startup might fail and very few that even give a chance for success (big VC success, not just normal profitablity or survival).

In summary I agree it’s a massive lottery, but it drives me crazy how much investment goes to lottery tickets that don’t even have a legitimate chance of success.

Yeah one of the biggest learnings for me over my career is that people are hard-wired for stories. It doesn’t matter how good an engineer/scientist you are, how well explained or robust the logic/study is, etc. People only respond to how things make them feel - we are emotional beings with the ability to rationalize, not the other way around.

I mean, you COULD just have a massive membrane area. They won’t, cause that’d be crazy, but you could.

There are theories that hunter-gatherers worked significantly less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society