Social media companies created algorithms to allow people to find content without having to look for it. This drove users and content creators to their sites and off the web.

For social media companies, a user’s value comes from having an account, so they have a vested interest in locking away content. For content creators, it is a lot easier to get noticed if an algorithm provides the advertising and some sites now allow for monetization within their walled garden. For users, they get content that never ends.

But you don’t need a fiat currency to operate a capitalist system. You also don’t need a capitalist system to implement a fiat currency.

But you don’t need capitalism for a minority ruling class to treat everyone under their control as a disposable resource.

And to add onto what you’re saying, most countries have a form of licensure for various activities to make sure that ignorance isn’t a valid excuse. Driving is likely the most common license that a person can get, and that requires written and practical tests at minimum.

I know Billy Talent.

I’d tell you, but they’d be American bands you’ve never heard of before.

It is an economic theory that is a useful critique of capitalism.

It is also used as a justification to create dog shit political systems.

The first crash is going to get the cops called, so I doubt you are going to be able to crash dozens of cars unless you’re doing it all at once.

Better to get your CDL and park a tractor-trailer and kill the air brakes.

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I don’t know. A lot of us here are autistic.

And the cats were usually cherished members of the crew aboard ships. No one fucked with the ship’s cat.

Depends on the features.

We’ve already see baseball start to respond to some of the problems you listed, but I see it continuing to be a major issue for most leagues as the teams have got caught up in the asset appreciation seen in other kinds of assets.

We don’t really know. I expect things to degrade until we hit a constitutional crisis of some form.

Saudi Arabia tends to have a tradition of ambitious projects that fail due to various reasons.

I was being recruited on to work on that project and I worked with some engineers who ended up working on it.

In the workforce?

The value of my work is that what it produces is correct. AI hallucinates way too much to provide anything of use that would save time at work.

My value is creating things that are correct, not just creating things.

Some people like spreadsheet sims.

The game series also mixed in a lot of mafia movie vibes and satire.

Then Rockstar realized you can release a lot less content by pushing online gameplay, stopping the release of single player content.

That sounds good.