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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't worried about population decline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does „retiree per worker“ graphs always fail to mention is how productivity increased over the same period.

  Those two workers today produce about as much as 8 did in the 50s so supporting the retirees should in fact be easier today, not harder.

  That it isn’t is because wages didn’t increase proportionately.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miscategorization of streaming media (specifically movies and videos)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming you are using a commercial service, the goal of those recommendations is not to serve you what you want to watch but to serve you what they want you to watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He cooked is good, he’s cooked is bad. You’re either holding the pan or you’re in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what’s happening is that each individual company has a positive ROI on ads in the sense that they would lose more than a dollar in sales if they spent a dollar less on ads, but collectively the ROI is probably smaller than one: if all companies would cut their advertising budgets in half they would all be better off, as they would keep their sales roughly the same.

  So adverting is less about sales volume (people don’t necessarily buy more things when they see more ads) but about market share (you get a bigger piece of the cake). Classic prisoner’s dilemma.