No and, just widgets. Anything else could happen elsewhere.

That's nonsensical. Just because it can and does also happen elsewhere doesn't make it not exist. Someone else could build widgets too. Society doesn't work if people aren't doing stuff so having people employed as of today is a benefit.

You act like people need permission to create and build.

People absolutely 100% do without a doubt need permission to have limited liability protection.

There is no bargain here, just a legal framework for people to work together for some purpose.

Absolutely false. People worked together for millennia without such frameworks in place.

It is not a gift from society; it is a protected right.

It's not a gift, it's a bargain. It's a "protected" right in as much as there is a law granting that right.

You can start a business where people would pay you for a kick in the face. Probably won't get any customers, but you can do it.

You don't really understand much about different kinds of business, do you?

You have a right to freedom of association. You have a right to make contracts.

Yes, and? You can do that just as well with and without extra protection granted to you by society.

You have a right to start almost any kind of business you want (some restrictions may apply). You have a right to use your property as you see fit. Government doesn't give you these things; it protects them.

Yes, and? You can do that just as well with and without extra protection granted to you by society.

Limited liability protection is not a natural right. Why should society give you that extraordinary gift if you give little in return?
 

A UNIX admin should know how to script and should therefore be able to take one script and infer another. Since a proper sysvinit script contains all outcomes, a new script can be written from a current one. On the other hand, with systemd if you have a system file that does a fork that won't help you do a one shot.

Your right those are bad as well.

Seriously? It's an order of fields to remember in ascending size.

But it's not 1% of the federal budget.

JCL came from a day where you read the documentation for everything

Subsidized R&D and subsidized manufacturing make for products that cost less. If those Chinese companies weren't getting almost everything paid for, they couldn't sell those vehicles for prices that low.

Congrats on 15 year old propaganda. Today they can build better quality cars faster and cheaper. And before you open your yap about safety, these vehicles pass EU safety standards which are more stringent than what the USA requires.

Exactly the way I said you would too. You don't call me a luddite because I already pointed that out and it would be too obvious if you use the word so instead you completely ignore the points I made and instead pretend I argued that we should go all Amish and ban technology.

This way you can avoid having to deal with the social implications of work shortages. You even at the end managed to shift the blame to the people losing their jobs and their livelihoods.

This way as society collapses around you as long as you aren't personally affected you don't have to do anything. I mean anything except talk about how fucking awesome you are and how much everybody else are lazy and shiftless.

All I can say is you better hope you die of old age before the effects of your line of thought come home to roost. You can only ignore the collapse of human civilization for so long. Especially when people with literally trillions of dollars are making it happen sooner. I used to think guys like you would get away with it but Elon Musk and the rest of those pieces of shit have accelerated things so much I don't think he will anymore.

Did you get your statistics from Grokipedia?

Cash isn't going anywhere. Cryptocurrency might. It is primarily used for money laundering and crime.

Honestly if they just crack down on the money laundering it goes away overnight.

"when schoolkids go, and they look up answers to questions about the meaning of 'socialism' ... they're going to find an explanation that completely ignores any conservative, libertarian, or critical treatment of the subject", "And that's really problematic.

He makes a big deal about being neutral and when the word socialism comes up he demands it be bad mouthed by Fox News.

If there are no ads, how do you pay for it?

Not my problem. If people aren't willing to pay subscription fees, then that's fine; social media platforms can die off.

I would note that Mastodon follows all of my suggestions except the subscription fee part, and it seems to be doing OK.

Sure, but it enormously slows the spread of fake news outside the circle of friends.

Many people start out reasonable, but get sucked into all kinds of wacko beliefs by sponsored or suggested posts.

I'm not in charge of any, but I use Mastodon, which follows all of my suggestions except a subscription fee, and it's fantastic.