I don't want to maximize the number of good books at all cost, and I don't want people writing for a living and neglecting everything else, and I don't lie.

As long as there are more decent books to read than hours in the day, who cares?

Obviously yes. Predictable = deserved.

If 1/50 people write one book in their life, and 1/50 of them are good, and all of them get published because there is zero barrier to entry, we would have so many more books that were good than we do now.

People have more free time and better access to distribution than before. You're not entitled to your streetlamp lighting job, you know.

Yes, it is immoral to allow rich men to try to turn future mothers into their own beasts of burden, just because they have more "points" than the next guy. When it becomes normative, it's necessary to have a bloody revolution. Why do you think WWII was necessary?

Used to be that East met West in Hong Kong, and the water kept the Western cultural norms from corrupting the peasantry.

Now, South Korea is the island, and North Korea is the water.

Unless you think women should just plan to marry a guy with a good job who can look after her and her child, or maybe become a welfare queen, women need to have a career.
 
That is precisely what we should be preparing young people for. And not just women, but men too.

Doesn't anyone else see that it's immoral to press, entice or implore a woman to sacrifice her child bearing years so she can fix your computer, or to let other people do so?

Didn't the article about how Facebook is funding freezing womens eggs wake anyone's eyes up to just how fucked up we've become?

Is that what you want for your daughter? Sure as hell isn't what I want for mine.

If that's what you're going to use your power for, you shouldn't have it.

Read up on Henry Kissinger. His conspiracy with the Saudi's created the situation, which really amounted to theft on a global scale by the US.

The war in Iraq happened mostly because they were going to start selling oil for Euro's.

In a nutshell, the reason the world has a fetish for the US dollar is that every time someone offers to sell energy for anything else, the US bomb the shit out of them.

You think we like accepting your funny money in exchange for real world goods, knowing that it will never be redeemed for real world good from the US, but will instead be passed around like a cheque that never gets cashed?

We don't.

I found rebuilding Viacom's websites in Groovy to be a real pleasure.

Working with .net, not so much...

We put a stop to the advertising machine that implores us to be endlessly wasteful consumers, get rid of the private property rules that allow a few to own everything while the multitude suffer deprivation, and start sharing the rewards of our technological progress freely.

When the costs of goods has been reduced to practically nothing, making sure everyone is well taken care of is worth the peace and stability that it brings.

How about I just declare my decision to oppose you at every turn for the rest of my life, and when you escalate, re-escalate in response, for the rest of my life, and we just leave it at that?

Secrets coming out all over these days... good luck, you'll need it.

Evolution doesn't kill anything. Sometimes the environment kills things, sometimes they reach the full expression of their complexity without being killed. Evolution is when the environment kills and diversity is reduced, and the herd now again consists of those whose nature is capable of full expression in the environment.

Ever heard of Gnosticism? They preached that this world was inherently evil, and that when humanity went extinct, we'd all be resurrected in a much nicer world, and therefore, breeding was an evil act.

Not too many Gnostics around. See how that works?

At least with mythology, if it's wrong enough, it kills its adherents, so it's subject to evolutionary pressure.

This may as well have been pulled out of a cereal box.

You cling desperately to your stupid "I'm thinking of a number" straw man because you know that I'm right. Everything that hasn't been confirmed not to be a threat is a threat. You secure your turf, survey it regularly, and build a wall in the hopes it will be good enough to deal with the threat of the unknown.

You know this, of course. Children could figure this out. You're taking this position because you seek to work against the interest of your neighbour and you don't want the task to become more difficult.

You're selfish, and it's as plain as day for all to see.