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@ChrisMayLA6 But is that something we should be teaching our young in schools? Positive psychology and how to lie a balanced and fulfilling life?

Or would that be detrimental to todays ruling class who is dependent on being financed by workers working until they are 59-72 (depending on where in europe you live)?

It seems to me that the government benefits from indoctrinating the population in the wonders of working hard for life, only to then die.

@ChrisMayLA6 re for life, since no one wants their services at the price point they are offered.

@ChrisMayLA6 Interesting. But if that is true, then surely we'd see a rapid growth of the left, just like socialism sprang out of industrialization of the 18th and 19th century?

If that does not happen, then perhaps, the gig economy actually brings more benfits to people than we think?

After all, it's an excellent way for people to make extra money, and a great entry point for the least educated on the job market. Remove those possibilities, and the lowest educated will be sentenced to welfa

@troed @Retreival9096 Amen!

I wonder if vibe coding by juniors programmers will give us a lot of security holes in the year to come?

I've seen some of my students vibe code assignments, and they have no clue what the code does. The code also tends to be convoluted at times.

@elston_ I would like to be a total pacifist, I think it is an enormously courageous position to take (if you live it, that is, and not just as a marketing label).

But being a libertarian, I do accept defensive violence at the personal level, and I would never engage in defensive violence for a nation. Only to directly protect family.

@elston_ Thank you for sharing. The pacifist, non-fighting christian, is for me the only true christian.

I am not chrisitan myself, but I find a lot of good things in it. If I were a christian, I would probably be a quaker or an old school christian unitarian universalist.

@ChrisMayLA6 all their lives, only to die on the day of retirement, is an enormously profitable business for hte government.

@ChrisMayLA6 This is a good point, and partly what I meant. I also thought of working part time, and not going from 100% to 0% at work, but easing into retirement, based on enregy levels and interest, over several years, or decades even.

But this is not my view of what retirement is like for some (many?). Many people identify with their jobs, and when going from 100% to 0% they lose their identity. Some even die. It could be argued that this is by design, because people working and being taxed

@ChrisMayLA6 In which ways? When I hear the words "working class" I get Dickens-vibes. Since the UK has belonged to the EU, and have been forced to adopt certain EU values and regulations over the years, I would imagine that the Dickens version does not exist in the UK, just like it does not exist in sweden.

@troed @Retreival9096 I think the problem is the "wo wo" crowd, raising LLM:s to the skies. That's just ridiculous.

Yes, they do some things well, yes, they might save me time on boilerplate or easy stuff, but no, they will not make me 10x faster.

They might make me 5%-15% more productive or so. But yes... I am not a programmer, but a devops guy.

I do know programmers though, and the most brilliant of them also are in the 5%-15% range.

@elston_ Excellent! The young are waking up. The scam is being exposed.

On the other hand... politicians flying private jets all over the world, and only connecting the environment with more authoritarianism and taxes, don't quite come off as trust worthy so they only have themselves to blame.

@elston_ This is the truth! To me, it has always been fascinating to think about, that given the amount of christiansin the world, let's say a billion or so, it seems like none of them ever read the bible.

I mean the pope? Jesus Christ (pun intended!)! He has his own country and travels in his own private jet.

For me it is pretty difficult to come up with a worse image of gods representative on earth, given what Jesus was teaching.

@ChrisMayLA6 we can afford it. It would also create a strong incentive to plan ones life and to become more long term in ones thinking. All of society would benefit from this.

The retirement dream, infatilizes people, and keeps them from taking control of their own lives.

@ChrisMayLA6 I think the mistake here is the concept of "retirement". The idea that anyone should be able to live and do nothing of value, financed by other peoples money, is incredibly destructive.

I would instead argue, that what it does, is that it enables more people to retire early, and ethically, since they would pay for themselves.

I also think that if this system was followed, the concept of retirement would disappear, and instead we would think about doing what we want to do, when

@ChrisMayLA6 In my experience, the children of the ruling class are sent to boarding schools, in sweden or abroad, and are more shielded from this, since they already have full access to their parents networks which gives them good salaries and positions of power and prestige early in life.

@ChrisMayLA6 working class professions that make more money if you count untaxed money, than the middle class.

In general, as an individualist, I think the class concept causes more problems that it fixes, but I think for the sake of discussion a distinction can be made between the ruling class (politicians, (some) nobility and captains of industry) and the rest of the population.

@ChrisMayLA6 Hmm. After thinking about it, I think I agree that the children of the elite are excluded, but besides that, I see a lot of young experiencing this, regardless of if they are working class or middle class.

In fact, I would argue that the distinction working class and middle class has lost all meaning in modern sweden (which is where I made this observation). The mobility between them is to easy, and there are no barriers, also, the taxes are so high, that it is rather the

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