fosforus

@fosforus@sopuli.xyz

politics: green/libertarian

geo: anti-r***ia, anti-religious extremism, anti-fascist, anti-trump

gaming since 1986

linuxing since 1996

psych: drinking too much coffee, wasting too much time and energy in here

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fosforus, (edited )

Generally speaking: not these days, and not for a long long time. Mauro, for instance, worked for Red Hat at the time. It’s of course possible to be unpaid and work for Linux, but I believe it’s much more likely that one is employed by a big tech corpo and they maintain the kernel as part of their work.

fosforus, (edited )

What were you promised? Like, owning a home? Home ownership rates in the US have been in the 63-70% range during all of 1966-2023, almost completely stable. Local purchasing power is #5 in the world for americans. What exactly is the problem over there?

We in Europe are having it much worse if you look at the data, especially now when Russia is being fucking Russia.

fosforus,

Or perhaps we know history and economics.

fosforus, (edited )

So 30% of people can’t afford their own house and that doesn’t seem like inequality to you?

Income inequality is a completely different thing from home ownership. Also, some of those 30% choose to not own a house. Also further, the average home ownership rate in EU is almost exactly the same as in the US, but our local purchasing power tends to be quite a lot worse.

USA is doing pretty fine economically.

fosforus, (edited )

You’re implying that the meme “capitalism bad” has amazing amounts of nuance.

fosforus, (edited )

Perhaps things are different where you live, but where I live, there’s always a significant additional bureaucratic cost when selling a house and buying another one. Because of that, renting has at least a single clear benefit beyond just being able to afford it: greater flexibility. Also, the financial risk is almost zero when you rent.

fosforus, (edited )

Well, you’re not wrong, but what I replied to (“don’t know what capitalism is” and “are rent seekers”) wasn’t exactly filled with nuance, either.

fosforus, (edited )

And by the way - what do you think causes the financial risk of home ownership

Accidents, subpar maintenance, market changes, divorce.

fosforus, (edited )

That’s cute, but also not how any of this works.

I suggest www.amazon.com/…/0465060730 – it’s 700 pages but I’m sure you can do it if you put some effort in.

fosforus, (edited )

Ok, so which multiple award-winning, widely respected PhD of Economics would you suggest instead? Or you just against things instead of having any positions of your own, like most other deep-end socialists are?

fosforus,

Fair enough.

fosforus, (edited )

Makes bad jokes, doesn’t reply to actual content or even check out the book I recommended, assumes content from book title. Calls me a coward for making bad jokes.

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/aa1c8a9b-7845-431f-8393-5f7452a64f4d.png

Well done, 10 internet points to you my friend.

fosforus, (edited )

Answer my fucking comment.

Read the book. Educate yourself beyond the crap you’ve studied so far.

Also, I have Cowbee’s statements to lean on, which you yourself conceded to, to know what the book is like.

I conceded that he has such an opinion.

Do you need more internet points for being so incredible?

fosforus,

Of course it’s good to help a child, but this smells like a propaganda piece.

Even if it’s 100% true and happened exactly like it’s described in the article, it’s obviously propaganda.

fosforus,

Reality seems to again be more like Aldous Huxley than George Orwell. We will pay to get these things in our heads eventually.

fosforus,

Yup, head in the sand. That works.

fosforus, (edited )

Consider the question, dude. What happens to the population in a genocide?

fosforus, (edited )

I’m guessing you’re gonna say that there is no genocide if not all or most of the people are killed, because then their people have survived. But, genocide also incorporates cultural genocide.

No, I’m saying that population doesn’t grow during a genocide.

That’s the fate the Israeli state wants for Palestine. It is still technically genocide.

But… Palestinian Arabs are >20% of the population of Israel. You’re making absolutely no sense.

fosforus,

Does it really sound like that? Should you perhaps try to steelman my argument in your head?

fosforus, (edited )

Dump all your data in a data lake, throw a thousand GPUs in there too, and you’ll have your answer in 2 hours max.

fosforus, (edited )

Plus the highest debt/GDP ratio in the world by far.

edit Oh wait, Venezuela topped them. Well done, socialism!

fosforus,

I’m sure you all hate him, but this is “Uplifting News”.

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