> If AI displaces human labor entirely and no mechanism of redistribution is created, then there is no broad income base to sustain demand

I don't think this is true necessarily. Companies can invest in other companies. And those other companies can invest in other companies. And the government can provide loans to these companies to create new money and keep the cash flows moving along.

There isn't any actual need for raw labour or any sort of "redistribution" to move capital around.

Society has too high a standard for raising a child, and individuals can't see the benefits especially if they've come from a dysfunctional home. In addition folks are presented with a hypothetical cost of raising a child that is frankly absurd:

* You have to shelter and feed yourself. You _can_ fit more people so that expense doesn't count.
* You have to buy food for yourself. Food expenses don't increase in a linear manner as mouths increase.
* Public schools are free, and you aren't required to send anyone to a University.
* Child care doesn't have to be a pay-for service. Get creative.
* Shop at Goodwill first. Always.

I find having a family is overwhelmingly valuable, but also requires a giving mindset and some compromise. The value becomes more apparent as you age and all your older family and friends die off.

All these college grads who can't find jobs will in many cases start their own businesses. We've seen this cycle happen in the past. Except they will be leaner and more effective by leveraging AI/ML from the start and will operate without all the corporate baggage of C-suite staff with bloated salaries.

Even with great AI tools, you need competent people who can use them, and I'd suggest the young folks are going to have an advantage there. The companies that compete in the race to the bottom are sacrificing long term growth for short term gains in the name of making a quick buck.

As a Cigna customer, I can confirm they make a special effort to confound both customers, and medical billing offices to create "friction".

Personally I feel this deserves a class action lawsuit. Unfortunately I get whatever my employer provides, and that's that.

Yet another example of the Race to the Bottom, exemplified by Jack Welch running GE into the ground.

Take great brands that people trust, and slowly erode quality to increase profits until you've sucked up all the money and you're left with a dried-up husk of a company.

This smells like market manipulation. Imagine you're a feckless con that only cares about getting rich, and you're president. Have you and your friends pull money out of the stock market and put it into gold or crypto. Tank the market with tariffs, and then buy back into the market knowing that once you lift the tariffs everyone on the inside of this game will profit in a big way.

This is what Americans voted for. Choices have consequences folks.

This comment about DevOps and Ansible is worth unpacking a bit.

DevOps is a philosophy and a strategy for collaboration between development and operations, while Ansible is a tool for
automation. They are not substitutes for quality control, testing, or systems thinking. Effective DevOps requires a culture that
prioritizes reliability, safety, and design and it's up to an organization's leadership to promote that.

You're gonna start hearing a lot about this and soon.

Almost like using certificates with expirations when you have no automated solution to update them is a bad idea, and amounts to putting a time bomb in every product you ship.

Certificate expiration offers theoretical security improvements and real, practical pain at defined intervals across the entire tech industry.

It wasn't worth it.

What a subject line. How old are you buddy? Everybody on Slashdot is in their 40s and 50s surely. Time to grow up.

Things like this make the idea of intelligent alien life seem more and more remote. Even on Earth we needed random and unpredictable events like 100 million years of a snowball Earth to kickstart multicellular life. Then consider all the events that had to happen after that, though further billions of years, until you arrive at human beings. We got stuck in a rut with dinosaurs and needed a meteor to wipe them out in order to keep moving forward.

There are probably billions of worlds out there where life has never moved past single cellular life, and we are in all likelihood alone in our galaxy, if not our universe. This is both scary and exciting.

Certificate expiry and renewal failures are a few orders of magnitude, maybe a dozen, above proven in-the-wild compromised TLS key attacks. There is a point where the tradeoff between security and reliability becomes far too bad to be worth it, and this tradeoff was already pretty bad with annual renewals. Now we see this insanity playing out.

No. No more short lived certificates. Just stop.