Symmetric, right? Right?!
we spend one doing basically nothing
Browsing Lemmy is not doing nothing. I'm , um, keeping my head in tune with the global marketplace and honing my remote interpersonal skillset. Yeah, that's what it is.
Por que no los tres?
I just keep thinking of Priscilla from Rango.
Clearly the best way to get more done is to reduce the number of people doing work. :roll eyes:
Why do we keep coddling Americans? It's pretty obvious that the legislation isn't in miles; nobody chooses 37 as a round number. Just tell us it's 60km.
(sorry, I'm in a foul mood this morning)
US liberals are more centrists in a European sense, no argument there. I'm just pointing out that offering up US conservative economic theory as a shining star of success is not the boast they think it is.
This may be better explained through the lens of different departments within mega corporations. Alphabet constantly changing their messaging platform is bullshit, but their aggregation and ui for viewing not just the entire world maps but creating timelapse views of the planet is quite innovative and just one of thousands of research projects going on under their umbrella. Meta creating yet-another messaging clone in Threads is bullshit, but the research and development in optics and other fields as part of their VR work is actually quite cutting edge. Outside of tech there are also massive research bodies working behind the scenes. The recent adoption of decades of work in mRNA is a huge leap forward in vaccine work, for example. Many large corporations have these internal groups pushing the bounds of physics, and the scale and specificity of research today is orders of magnitude beyond where we were in the early half of the previous century. As we look back at the turn of the next century, I expect there will be a laundry list of technological turning points which are credited to today's companies which just aren't apparent in the din of 24/7 news and information. OTOH, thanks to these mundane communications services, we no longer need just a couple of research centers and, instead, we benefit from a larger network of investigators scattered about the world.
While I'm sure lawyers have looked at it (and I'm not one), my understanding is that you cannot sign away your statutory rights in most cases.
take economics; many traditional conservative positions square pretty well with economic theories and practices
Like trickle down theory, corporate personhood, that tax breaks will result in tax revenue, and that government austerity is preferable to stimulus to move an economy from recession to expansion? They're zero for four in the most popular 20th century conservative economic theories. I'm not sure that economics is the best lens to view conservative theory in a positive light.
Where is the Bell Labs? The Skunk Works?
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