Ah yes, Sly 2 demo on Ratchet and Clank 3.

Isn’t that the same kind of manipulation they’re accusing Musk of currently? He literally wants to buy the elections.

The thing is, if Bezos wants the deliveries to take longer, they will. And he can easily lie about it and tell people it’s not his fault.

Gut, dass du auch nichts Konkretes schreibst, sonst könnte man ja versehentlich was darüber erfahren.

People have told me and my friend to be silent twice before when we were talking in a respectful quiet tone, not even addressing anyone else.

It seems the rest of the world has decided that saunas need to be quiet, when the actual Finnish thing is a social event. You have a beer, sometimes a sausage on the oven. I don’t know what the point of a stfu wellness sauna in a gym is.

Yeah you stupid pay pigs, don’t you know economics!? Supply and demand! Just stop demanding the resource we spent decades making indispensable and kept artificially scarce!

I thought it was funny. Something something doctors and their egos, but in an innocent way. :D

M is math. STEM bros used to be called nerds, but that’s a reclaimed positive term now I guess?

They died from the shock. 😔

My proposal is based on fair prices to begin with. I’m saying we as humanity don’t have enough work capacity to sustain ourselves if we don’t contribute a certain minimum because of necessities. I’m not simping for capitalism, I’m saying there’s a lower limit of work hours a day we need to contribute to even exist.

2017 BMW i3, original version. Can’t do shit, I upgraded with Android Auto and a rear camera. Just… the doors… But otherwise I love it.

I don’t know who would make the opposite claim. Everything I hear has always been “hardly anyone would go back”.

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And “does the distinction actually matter”!

We’d have to double to triple the workforce in logistics and construction and other necessary sectors. A reduction in work hours necessarily means a reduction in standard of living - even with CEO wages factored in - because the overhead of necessities grows compared to societal achievements. We need the same amount of food delivered and the same amount of houses built, but now it takes two to three times as many people to do it. The same applies to doctors or teachers, so the additional workforce would come from other segments - which finally means reduction in standard of living for the average citizen.

This assumes steady productive output. In some sectors, this assumption is wrong, but I think it’s a fair assumption for logistics and construction.

Putting all essential jobs together (health, education, construction, logistics, agriculture, food retail, utilities, public administration, plus the required manufacturing and IT infrastructure) is already 50-55% of the workforce. In order for everyone to halve their workday, we’d all have to exclusively work only for the status quo. Which means no watches, no smartphones, no TV, no cinema, no museums, no parks.

A reduction of work hours would be nice, no question. But we also have to remember that the work goes somewhere and time/energy/resource efficiency matters on a fundamental biological level. We have to be a productive part of society for it to function, and while this is usually co-opted by capitalists to extract money, it remains a fact of life.

E: We’re already having healthcare only because we’re exploiting healthcare workers to the maximum. Even at the current status quo, treating them fairly would just not work. We’re already in a state of broken equilibrium between what we need and what we want. The healthcare workforce would have to double only for them to have a 40h work week.

And then there’s people with three jobs who still can’t make ends meet. I propose we make the 40h week work for everyone first before we reduce further.

Das sind Fähigkeiten, die wir uns selbst erarbeiten müssen. Während der Arbeitszeit, versteht sich.

Ja, aber vielleicht nur ein Ma(h)l.

Switzerland has an average turnout of 35% while Germany’s last big election was almost 90% iirc. Apathy is strong and it’s another threat to democracy.

Throw in mandatory voting and we might get somewhere. Make it no longer be a battle for turnout by emotional manipulation but a battle for votes by actual policy content. Australia made their transition a formal study.

But yes, more involvement of the populace in politics might be a good step.

You have state media which is mostly balanced, possibly a little left, and then private conglomerates that love discord, so mostly right leaning and inflammatory. Anything Springer Verlag is garbage, for example. Not as bad as the US with Fox.