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ephemerality , to news in Looking for a new car under $20,000? Good luck. Your choice has dwindled to just one vehicle

Yes, this was my exact point. Money is how we quantify the value of effort in the modern era. It’s why Communism will never work with our current framework. They are fundamentally incompatible. Our purpose in life is to make money, we cannot just start giving everyone equal quantities of it — life would be meaningless. It requires a paradigm shift on how we value effort.

ephemerality , to news in Looking for a new car under $20,000? Good luck. Your choice has dwindled to just one vehicle

Really, the problem stems from the idea of wealth in general. To use a Communist structure like that would require eliminating the concept of non-tangible “wealth” entirely. Because otherwise you get the kind of incongruencies that you describe.

It’s hard though, right? Without wealth, how do you value the work of others? It used to be done by bartering. Or perhaps people did it because they were good at it, and didn’t mind helping out. People worked together.

Obviously this doesn’t fit in the modern era, when people generally work specifically to earn money, rather than for some general purpose. People probably aren’t going to want to do the job they already have in exchange for nothing but goodwill. They have to have a purpose. Our purpose in Capitalism (unless you are very lucky) is to earn Wealth so we can continue to exist, and as a guiding philosophy that does a decent enough job for most people.

ephemerality , to mildlyinfuriating in Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff

Or debian stable, for all the reliability of ubuntu without the drama

ephemerality , to programmer_humor in Good Old Windows

Yes, on both platforms.

ephemerality , to programmer_humor in Good Old Windows

I wrote some open source software and looked into how to make that not happen. It’s not easy on Microsoft, and on Apple it costs more than a $100/year!

ephemerality , to news in Oregon lifts ban on self-serve gas, leaving N.J. as the only state prohibiting it

Oregon has the fourth most expensive gas by state. New Jersey is pretty high up there, although admittedly cheaper than its neighbors by a few cents. I would doubt that full vs. self service has any real impact on gas prices

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