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- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 11 hours ago:
Historically, I’m quite certain that the “small” people (e.g. peasants, and such) had always had incredibly right-wing views, including tribalism (we’re better than anyone else, for no reason, we just are), “hard-work” ethics, who doesn’t work doesn’t deserve to eat, and such.
The landlords couldn’t care less about immigration. As long as the immigrants pay their taxes, the landlord is happy. Why would they bother?
It’s the peasants who see their land occupied (sothat their own land’s relative share decreases) who get furious at the foreigners who take their jobs and eat their food, while also possibly bringing infectious diseases and an inferior way of life.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 11 hours ago:
“But everyone does the same thing”
Literally everyone does the same thing. Even if you look at the other side of the world, China, Japan and Korea are some of the most anti-immigrant places on the entire world. It’s not just a “western” thing.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 11 hours ago:
The interesting thing is that the US economy (in fact, even the economy worldwide) is probably gonna face a steep decline in demand of human labor in the next few decades.
The reasons include the limits to growth (i.e. the economy can’t grow anymore due to natural constraints, but growth is what causes the majority of demand for human labor) and automation and AI.
Having a higher number of people in the country when there’s a low demand for human labor (a.k.a. few jobs) means higher unemployment numbers, and that in turn is more expensive for the country, because the people still need resources so the country has to pay out unemployment money if it wants to avoid revolts. Now, companies face higher taxation, and everyone is worse off. If people make fewer children today and there’s less immigration, both companies and citizens will be better off in 20 years from now, because they face lower unemployment rates. This insight is relatively new (because until now, supply of human labor was the constraining factor for economic growth), but interesting.
- Comment on Stay hydrated 14 hours ago:
pls no sugary drinks. they cause diabetes and other grave (un)health conditions
- Comment on A conundrum 14 hours ago:
the deposit is the keep young, inexperienced and glowy-eyes people from making commitments they don’t have the stamina to handle.
it happens a lot that 20 year olds want to buy a house with their new partner that they think they’re gonna be together with for the rest of their lives, only to have it all fall apart 5 years later. forcing to you save up a bit before actually buying the house means you go through a lot of experiences before you actually buy a house, which makes it more likely that you’ll have the far-sightedness that’s needed to actually buy a house.
- Comment on A conundrum 14 hours ago:
Actually i guess the bigger issue is that we’re gonna be unemployed in 15 years and then who pays back what?
- Comment on Anon plays the lottery 22 hours ago:
Consumerism has mostly been a way to separate fools and their money throughout the 20th century.
If consumerism wouldn’t exist, the workers would have earned good dollars, but would have kept the wealth to themselves, and so you end up with a powerful working class. If instead, the people spend their money as soon as they have it, the companies and therefore the company owners get a share of the money repeatedly, until all of the wealth is slowly siphoned away by the owning class.
- Comment on I'm saving it for a little QT 🦟 2 days ago:
can i have a little too 🥺️👉️👈️
- Comment on We are made of stardust 2 days ago:
“we are made of stardust” is such an incredibly materialistic worldview
why not say instead “we are made of consciousness”?
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 3 days ago:
i read that in the calm and convincing voice of cardamon, the 8 y.o. landlord of Bee and Puppycat, who’s the most reasonable character in the entire show.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 3 days ago:
just assume a spherical cow, dude
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 3 days ago:
so? that’s why laws exist, right?
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 3 days ago:
No, that’s not how the modern economy works. A CEO can’t just pay higher wages randomly. They have to adhere to some invisible laws guiding them towards paying the minimum wages they can get away with. If they pay more, they get fired and replaced with another CEO who pays less again.
The only way to make a company pay more is if it benefits the company or if it’s forced by law, i.e. legally-mandated minimum wage. That, however, is a bad idea too IMHO because for one some businesses who’re just barely profitable today would simply go out of business and people would lose their jobs, and also it would make human employees more expensive and companies would look towards automating their jobs away, because machinery would be more competitive.
IMHO the best solution is to give people money, but not through the workplace, but through a legally-mandated universal basic income. Otherwise, you’re forcing people to go to work to be able to live and people would have to suck up whatever bad working conditions their workplace features just to be able to survive, i.e. the same we’re seeing with medical insurance today when it’s tied to work requirements.
- Comment on You are stardust. 6 days ago:
duh it has 500 pages, i’m not reading sth that long. if you can’t put your thoughts into a short summary, you haven’t truly understood much of anything, i say.
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 week ago:
humans are buildings, and just like buildings have plumbing and wire, humans live not alone: we have a huge number of parasites in our intestines and a large number of ideas in our brains that join us in our journey. i wonder how much of our actions are actually our own, and how many are caused by our circumstances.
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 week ago:
in fact, living in interesting times (or interesting situations, or interesting lifes) is considered a curse in china, because of all the responsibility and stress that comes with it.
- Comment on does this qualify as a shitpost? 1 week ago:
*leyla
- Comment on does this qualify as a shitpost? 1 week ago:
yes, that one
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- Comment on Is it? 1 week ago:
it’s already hitting the shelves. it’s used as a feedstock for multiple animal farms (mostly fish), and it’s also used as a dietary supplement for human consumption in the US. Source
Although i gotta admit, it has its issues. It is frequently contaminated with traces of toxins, which makes it a bit hazardous. It would need genetic engineering IMO before it can be used at larger scales. But the idea is there, and it’s actively researched by a lot of parties, including space agencies.
- Comment on Is it? 1 week ago:
seriously, yes. you can use your favorite search engine using the keyword “spirulina”. btw, i run a mars community on lemmy: !mars@discuss.tchncs.de
I made a post about this topic here: discuss.tchncs.de/post/43746168
- Comment on Is it? 1 week ago:
me
- Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space 1 week ago:
space.com is completely over-hyped. i read many of their articles and they’re typically mediocre at best.
- Comment on Is it? 1 week ago:
what you wildly underestimate is people’s time back then. they often had jack-shit to do for prolonged periods of time, and people are willing to mess around with things quite a lot, especially food-related
- Comment on Is it? 1 week ago:
meat has been eaten long before humans existed. iirc butter and cheese were developed by human’s efforts to preserve food long-time (for the winter). people knew that a high water content makes all kind of food spoil faster (that much is pretty obvious if you spend some time actually observing things), so the straightforward consequence is to try and remove the water from the milk, and that’s basically how you end up with cheese and butter.
- Comment on Is it? 1 week ago:
i guess what you mostly need to make bread is the insight that grains taste better when they’re refined to a fine powder, which you could figure out by accident.
- Comment on Is it? 1 week ago:
If we grow algae in a plastic bag directly under the sunlight and genetically modify these algae to be non-toxic (or at least contain only toxins that can be deactivated by cooking) and produce gluten, we could grind them to powder and use that to bake break.
this could be useful for a future mars settlement, where conventional greenhouses would be expensive because they would have to be completely air-tight, but air-tight plastic bags might be cheap.
- Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space 1 week ago:
ikr
- Comment on Millions of Gen Zers are jobless—and unemployment is mainly affecting men 1 week ago:
the reason is because a strong demand for human labor drives wages up.
the free labor market is regulated by supply and demand, i.e. a high demand for human workforce leads to higher prices for that labor (a.k.a wages)
now, if AI takes the jobs, the overall demand for human labor diminishes, and that’s gonna lower the wages even for those jobs who are themselves not affected by AI.
with low wages, people would have to organize and demand Universal Basic Income, but since people in america historically find it difficult to organize and demand something, lots of people are worried that UBI either won’t come or will be too little to live well off it.
- Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space 1 week ago:
3 hours is an insignificant amount of time to me >.<
