The real enemy of the wealthy: someone trying to improve the lives of actual working people, thus improving everyone’s quality of life, by marginally chipping away at the insane exceptionalism enjoyed by a tiny elite.

Thank you. For once I don’t have to be that person.

Spicy, but I love that take

Yeah really. They should be more like campuses funding a hundred small teams each trying to make something they’re individually passionate about. Hell, even give them the IPs to play with and see what they come up with.

Fear of failure becomes self fulfilling, yeah. You get so worried about making the wrong move and losing money that you can have your spotlight stolen by a challenger doing it fresher for 1/10th the budget.

Read the article, you say? What a radical notion.

I feel like visibility yeah but also the way we label behavior is in the middle of being updated. Aside from legit sex pests, you might have people like Louis CK who genuinely believed they were creepy yet ultimately benign.

40 years ago they would have been, if not right, then less out of line with the general morality.

I don’t know… I think we’re in a weird time right now. And I feel like fundamentally our thinking on sexuality and consent are missing some revolutionary thinker. Like we should not have progressed to this point historically without figuring this shit out but coincidentally all the people who could have captured that zeitgeist diet off in potato famines or something.

Anyway. Just a feeling. Not real.

This is a conversation between me and the gcc compiler (I suck at programming)

Because then you wakeup in your makeup.

you say that but could you say that to an A class shareholder on the verge of tears over not being able to retire at 50 they might even have to work

tbf if airlines had to serve people they could not be profitable

Yeah… I think this is just the water we swim in now.

Wave of the future!

Wow that really is a fun fact!

That’s what I was trying to get at with my talk of incentives and external validation - Stop trying to “fix” them and accept that they lack the capacities that we take for granted.

I’m through with caring about what’s in someone’s heart of hearts. Can we get them to behave, even if it’s out of fear of being ostracised? Fine. Good enough.

Then work on the conditions that make people maladaptive (or really just adaptive to a mal world) separately.

First time I remember was a Nintendo forum, where someone accused me of masturbating in the shower and I had no comeback.

That’s why we love it. We get to gently lecture someone about our interests

You’ve got lots of stuff that would be hard to get at home like basketball, squash courts; swimming pools; saunas, cold plunge; lots of free classes (well, included in the cost). If you have a YMCA, they will even do a sliding scale based on your income.

It’s like going to the library. Yeah you could do much of that stuff at home, but it’s good to get out.

Maybe we need to start treating lack of empathy like more of an intellectual / educational problem, rather than a moral failing in like your “soul”? If only just so we can forgive people enough to actually work with them.

I’m spitballin, but I can work with ignorance or even feeblemindedness - you just focus on education or harm reduction. Like maybe they’ll never never be able to see outgroups as fully human, but with the right kind of external validations and incentives, maybe they could simulate it.

Damn I just got Delta. Am I doomed to be perpetually behind on cool chats?