“I was consulting.”

It’s true, I was giving out advice left and right.

Doesn’t the interest come from lending out the money?

There are “financially independent” people who continue to work despite not needing it.

Does Lemmy have a FI/RE community?

I did, I still have the knife.

At least here in Los Angeles, many of the parks are unsafe for children. I found a knife in the playground last year.

It’s one doll, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?

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Small farmers are basically gone. Main Street is abandoned. They don’t own the land they live on either. Their way of life is dying. They’ve got plenty of real stuff to rage about - the control is telling them it’s because of immigrants and not because of the rich.

Prediction markets have been proven more effective than CEOs for decades. The economic system we have today isn’t optimizing for efficiency - it’s optimizing for control. Even if the CEOs are just using AI themselves, we’re more likely to obey an order from a human middleman than we are from an AI directly.

TL;DR: CEOs are Gaius Baltar

Do either of them talk about it at all? I only see it discussed here. Most Americans don’t mind genocide at all anyways.

Reading all these ban stories, I’m glad I left during the API thing! I don’t like censoring myself.

Just the basic one or adaptive cruise control?

Then maybe you’re against aggression and OK with defense. Not all violence is bad.

Then: it’s obviously not democratic, that’s why they call it a dictatorship

Now: well it’s just not democratic in a way you liberals would understand

TBF we already started it ourselves

In Marxist philosophy, the dictatorship of the proletariat is a condition in which the proletariat, or the working class, holds control over state power. The dictatorship of the proletariat is the transitional phase from a capitalist to a communist economy, whereby the post-revolutionary state seizes the means of production, mandates the implementation of direct elections on behalf of and within the confines of the ruling proletarian state party, and institutes elected delegates into representative workers’ councils that nationalise ownership of the means of production from private to collective ownership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat

We can just show up in ICE uniforms and take them to the free state.

Socialism isn’t just when the government does things. In between workers and the state needs to be a free and functioning democracy.

That’s what we call “inflation”.