My 13 Chevy Volt has 225k miles and is still on its original brake pads and rotors. The rotors are basically good as new, and the pads are at about 40-50%.

If you redistribute money evenly, how would you get anyone to do anything?

If you gave everyone $10k a month UBI, who is going to change your tire? How much you have to pay them to go to work if they get $10k while sitting at home?

If a town has a lack of apartments, how much will an apartment cost if a young couple has $20k a month to spend?

The scenario we are discussing is one where "the number of jobs automated approaches 100%", so the point would be that it is explicitly a situation where most people are not needed in the job market.

> If you redistribute money evenly, how would you get anyone to do anything

Currently, people need money to pay for necessities like food and shelter. Therefore either money is redistributed somehow or people have jobs to earn money, or we change the paradigm entirely to something else

We cannot have both no wealth redistribution AND replace all labour with automation without really messing this system up

This seems pretty obvious to me?

It seems totally not obvious to me. It seems so confusing. If you gave everyone a million... Eventually someone needs to buy a house... What does it cost to buy one? Would you sell your house for 2 million if everyone around you had a million? No, some Indian family would pool everyone's government pool of 1 million and bid 8 million for it. So how does a single person buy one? Same as today. Except you screwed up inflation too.

There are certainly downstream consequences to this that might not work, in which case we are simply screwed full stop :)

Do you have anything to say about the actual point I was trying to make?

Its this part:

"We cannot have both no wealth redistribution AND replace all labour with automation without really messing this system up"

My point is I'd prefer to deal with one issue, which would be labor being automated.. instead of dealing with both issues (automation and crazy inflation) at the same time.

I bought a $5500 Chevy Volt with 105k miles in peak COVID 2020.

It now has 225k miles and I haven't done a single thing to it but change the oil.

It's still on the original factory brake pads and rotors, which look to be about 50% on the pads.

I am going to drive my Chevy Volt into the ground.

I work in construction now. Commercial Millwork/cabinets as a project manager.

It is so much harder and more stressful than my php/jquery mini saas coding days.

Often at work I start thinking "why are we doing all this? Why does anyone want this fancy reception desk?? This desk is not worth the human aggravation that it's causing."

I genuinely start thinking we should go back to concrete eastern European communist type buildings just for the simplicity and efficiency. Why all this fancy stuff that causes every project engineer, superintendent, and subcontractor Engineering department to get grey hair.

But I guess it makes the economy grow. I don't know.

I hate the concrete/modern aesthetic, but live and let live I say and you should build your dream one day.

I read something interesting recently that some huge percentage of society, all genders, all classes etc etc hate modern architectural compared to classic architectural style. The only people that like are architects and/or architecture students. Amusing tid bit. Could also be complete junk when I drive all over Australia and see white/grey render & black trim absolutely everywhere. Yuck.

My note wasn't really on style, but more so how much human energy goes into custom cabinets in a lunch break room, when in reality an almost custom off the shelf solution that just has a bit of evenly spaced empty space on both sides is cheaper and 90% less hassle.

I'm currently working on metal hallways portals that are 10' tall, except the material is only 8', and the seams are ugly, so several people are designing solutions on how to split the span up And what kind of reveal to do so the edge/seam is nice. Why? Why does this hallway need a metal cap at the end of it?

They may even have the ability. But unless you're running a very small company, they don't have the time to do actual things.

I now have a 2011 or 2012+ 27" iMac everywhere I need a computer, running Linux Mint Mate, and it works better and with less frustration that any new $2500+ Lenovo workstation laptop my employers give me.

With how inexpensive older phones are, or even $50 motog phones, I've wondered what would happen if someone managed to connect 20 of them. Power wise they seem pretty efficient, so maybe it could even be useful?

There were clusters using PS2 and PS3 systems. Clusters using old Android phones wouldn’t be novel

I alway wondered why so many people (not saying you're one of them) get mad at being charged for misclicks and bots.

It all averages out.

You bid $3 a click because your conversion ratio is x, and paying $3 is worth it. Even if 90% of the traffic is bots, it works out. If Google filtered out all the bots, the conversion ratio for you and your competitors would go up, and your competitors would be willing to pay $27 per click and you'd outbid at $30, being at the exact same result at the end of the month spent for the exact same results.

For me, $3 a click would've worked for some projects, but $30 would not work for sure. Knowing that it's $30 and not $3 before the start of some campaigns, I would've saved some money. I instead paid that money to Google for this lesson.

The problem is when your competitors get the idea to spam your campaign with fake traffic, which is a real thing that happens.

Just an FYI, these drugs don't actually cause erections or sexual excitement. They simply make erections easier.

Now, if someon is mildly excited by other bodybuilders but usually not enough to make it known, yes Cialis could cause 'movement' as George Costanza put it.

But if you're not into what's in front of you, Cialis isn't going to change anything.

For all the downvoters:

While Taladafil does not have a psychotropic effet (like Extacy, MDMA etc.), just the friction of your sport clothes may be a problem for your "experience", and visiting the sauna afterwards will be very likely somehow problematic if sauna guests match your preferences, to put it in a diplomatic way ;-)

You shouldn't be creepily ogling the gym baddies anyway no matter what you're on. Tadalafil is perfectly fine in the gym or the sauna as long as you control where your attention goes.

I have to take Tadalafil daily as my urologist prescribed it and have no issues going to the gym. I lift weights and exercise regularly.

Another thing is that overtime your body adjusts to the side effects. I used to get headaches or stuffy nose, those are gone now.

In any case, always take medication under the guidance of a doctor and don't mess with the dosage!

Do not know if everyone got the verbal mixture message: Taladafil is not for going to the Gym, but for having a great time with your partner - if you go to the Gym while in the timewindow, you might have some issues due to the effect of it ;-)

My sentence was never about "use Taladafil to get stronger in the Gym" but more about "do not drop it before you are going to the Gym" ;-)

Apart from that: Effects after Taladafil on your "back pain reception" my be included, as it has an effect on especially skeleton muscles etc.

If you're doing the gym right, you don't have the energy to ogle anyone, anyway.