- Yes.
It's not the root however. The root is nepotism. What you're describing is one of ten thousand problems nepotism causes.
- Right, because governments do anti-trust and ensure fair competition. We all agree.
When your argument boils down to discussing fantasies in a fantasy world, you have a bright future as an economist indeed.
- This seems fitting:
> Yet what is the result, the gain to humanity, of this wonderfully regulated society which has been built solely to make life richer? Millions are on the verge of starvation, hundreds of thousands are spending their lives in producing instruments for the destruction of human life, and millions again are wasting their existence in a dull tragedy of monotony. In every great industrial centre where wealth is most plentifully produced, there is poverty and want. In the rich town where no production is carried on, there is plenty and enjoyment. He who labours hard or produces wealth is in poverty, he who lives in idleness is rich. When the warehouses are full, there is want and hunger. Those without food are forbidden to produce because the demand is already supplied. [0]
I highlighted the part that relates to Palantir and most everyone on here reading HN (except you, of course, you're special :))
Which is to say this is nothing new and discussing the minutia of did this specific company do this specific thing when the system that makes this inevitable remains unaddressed is missing the point.
Oh well, politics for 99% of people seems to amount to gossip. Did you hear what X said/did? Oh my god, I can't believe it, etc, etc.
[0] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-barrett-the-a...
- > And "I like Lisp" should be an automatic qualifier.
Very funny and on the nose :)
- Because it's what has been advertised to teenagers to maximize profit.
Western culture is a mental issue beyond repair. It will soon be gone and it will not be missed.
- I imagine slave owners who didn't abuse their slaves felt quite righteous and even superior to other slave owners.
Where is it better? Who treats slaves better than I do, they'd say.
- > A society with a pragmatic regard for its own survival would ban it outright
Western society would cease to exist if it didn't continue its diabolical lies, falsehoods and abuse. The lies are not optional.
It is because of pragmatic regard for survival of the status quo that the lies do continue. That word 'pragmatic' is what keeps diabolical people from seeing themselves for what they are.
- > There's a lot of nonsense that comes out on both sides of the aisle. I wish there was a solid single source of truth to figure out what's really going on in China and what's really going on behind the scenes in the U.S.
Isn't this simply the answer?
That what's going on is gaslighting of the public and that there are people behind the scenes and they don't want hoi polloi to know what they're up to?
This geo-politics (or politics) talk is 'intellectual' men's astrology.
When a woman asks me my astrological sign, I know she's a deeply unserious person. When a man says 'do they have a reliable supply of food and energy'...
- Opportunities to be among the insufferable nepo baby cohort?
The most revealing example of this was when I found out how many of UK's 'elite' school children were molested, grew up and proceeded to do everything they can to make sure their children attend these very same 'elite' schools.
Western culture is beyond repair.
- This is FAANG bro's 'let them eat cake'.
- It's a problem, it's just not the root problem.
The root problem is nepo babies.
Whether it's capitalism or communism or whatever China has currently - it's all people doing everything to give their own children every unfair advantage and lie about it.
Why did people flee to America from Europe? Because Europe was nepo baby land.
Now America is nepo baby land and very soon China will be nepo baby land.
It's all rather simple. Western 'culture' is convincing everyone the nepo babies running things are actually uber experts because they attended university. Lol.
Stop with the MBA playbook he said.
> just make the...
Just make a superior product he said.