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[–] afraid_of_zombies 32 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Big part of the reason why I left big tech to work in infrastructure. None of this Faceboot stuff is going to matter if we are drowning in sewage. That and the comfort that if/when things go to hell I will still have a job.

But hey I would like to point out that a bunch of the problems we are seeing are fixable with law changes. Housing is too expensive? Get rid of zoning. Global warming threatens to kill us all? Carbon tax and gradually increase it. Faceboot sucks but we are the ones that refuse to vote.

[–] kite 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

get rid of zoning

(To be clear here, I'm not being accusatory or anything here, I'm genuinely curious) When you say that, what, exactly, do you mean? I feeling like I may be thinking something different from you, because when I picture getting rid of zoning, I see businesses/companies taking over everything and making neighborhoods a bleak nightmare. For example, we just recently had a Chinese group open up a smoke shop in a place not zoned for it. (skipped every single process required of new businesses to open) They got caught fast because the neighborhood they were in started having issues with the shop's customers, so someone blew them in to permitting. Thats what I picture happening with no zoning, but without the ability to turn in the problematic businesses.

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[–] sfgifz 23 points 1 year ago

A while back there was a discussion with Elon Musk and Jack Ma. Musk talks about living on Mars and Jack talking about making life better on Earth. I can't believe now that back then I thought Musk was the smart one...

[–] FlyingSquid 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The orca arrives in panel 5.

[–] Blurrg 15 points 1 year ago

Effective Altruism go brrr

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You can be passionate about technological advancement and also be concerned about rent prices, funding for schools, and climate change. Let people solve the problems they're able to solve.

[–] Waldhuette 82 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They aren't solving any actual issues. They are just hogging resources and wasting them on their dream projects. They are taking away resources that others need to survive.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I agree. I don't think absolutely any value came from Jeff and Elon going to space in penis shaped rockets.

Dreams are great, but we need those with means to give back more to society. We don't need mars colonies, we need common sense solutions to corporate greed, stagnating wages, and the growing threat of unchecked, privately-owned AI.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Worst part is that they will not deliver on their ludicrous promises because they are only meant to bedazzle people and pump up stock prices.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Sure, but the point of the comic is that while technological advances for "cool" things get all kinds of attention and development, actual social problems that continue to impact billions of people hardly get any focus.

[–] Donnywholovedbowling 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can't wait for some billionaire to do both...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but when you have billions at your disposal you have a much greater moral responsability than a fresh out of uni geek. He could greatly contribute to our urgent problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Musk can't make a marriage between two people work: and you want to trust him with the world because he is greedy ?

Tax all of those oppressors.

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