It's funny because TFS summary says it's not an issue in Scandinavia...

Seems legit to me

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fsustai...

1) it did increase productivity for some tasks
2) people were only using it once a day

I suspect that with a little experience people will better know which tasks it works for and which it doesn't, while also using it more often.

For a brand new tool to show real potential in some tasks while also being currently neutral overall seems promising in the long run.

Generally in these things the more autocratic a country is the more they can afford it.

Are you implying the US has become more autocratic than China?

So you're saying Trump set this in motion during his first term by picking a pro corporate anti worker fairly extreme fed chair?

Yup, and believe it or not some people pay for the content with ads. Some pay for money. Some just stream it with blockers. Others avoid it because there's too much advertising.

I tend to do the first or the last option, but with the music service included it seemed worth it to me to switch to paying.

That's still land someone owns in their utopia.

I think basically what they're arguing for is toll mud roads...

My point is that there's going to be a large segment of society (somewhere between 20%-50%) in the bottom 20%-50%.

No amount of magic can change that.

The wage distribution means that even if everyone works there ass off 10s of millions will struggle in the US. There's a need for low end labor, and theres a whole whole lot of it, and the argument that those are starter jobs doesn't really hold, the distribution of jobs and income just isn't there for everyone to have a good job no matter how hard they work.

It's easy to save when you're in the top quarter or maybe even too half. But as you go down the pay distribution it becomes nearly impossible.

There are definitely people that spend well beyond their means, and even more beyond what's necessary, but the average car isn't new (I think median is 11 years old now).

There are just as many people making under median income as there are making over it, and with general assumptions about luck, skill, and age impacting income one can assume there is a significant percentage of adults making in the lower half of income.

It's much easier to lifestyle adjust your way into feeling comfortable on $70k (median household) vs $40k (30th percentile).

Your son is already in the top 20%, clearly not a typical example.

Many really believed we are being overrun with "bad hombres". They didn't think their workers would be deported, they thought the millions and millions (in their mind) of gang members would be.

They didn't even consider that every Hispanic person they interacted was decent, therefore there probably aren't millions of hardened criminals to deport.

Libertarians are wild.

I hear the loudest cry about privatized toll roads coming from libertarians.

Like isn't that what you want?!

I believe the concept was in food and housing etc.

I think it holds on a log scale (to an extent).

example: the average (American) person consumes $3.3 million. The mega rich have 3,000x that much. Do you really think they will consume 3,000x as much (10 billion)? (We can see not because they all plan on having some leftover in the end).

I don't know what the practical limit is on consumption, but I doubt many of the people even with $10 billion consume much more than a billion over a lifetime (though I believe the differences in consumption are also growing as things at the top end of niceness become relatively more expensive).

It's pretty reasonable, comes with some content (Father Ted is one I play every now and again), no YouTube ads, and the music streaming service.

I pay for it and feel like it's a fair price.

But more congestion on roads, since you have not just the journey, but also the empty vehicle.

Yeah, the article says "modern railway" which I take to mean a locomotive with an engine pulling cars.

It was simply funny to me since the person seemed to be saying modern railways were already 200 years old, and provided a link saying that comes in 30 days.