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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • You can easily overwork devs, and while their salary is higher than others a difference between 60k and 120k salaries is less than 60 employees to do manual work and 15 to automate it.

    Plus when devs create a digital item that can generate a profit nearly indefinitely they are viewed as cost productive to MBA types. Versus janitors where for some reason we dont see a value at all in cause of no immediate profit from their position.



  • It’s absurd that anyone making less than $50k a year is saving more money than someone making $200k.

    If they arent buying assets they arent actually saving, they are just building a buffer against drowning.

    Also to simplify your percentages there of people living paycheck to paychecks.

    • 75% under 50k a year
    • 48% of people making 100k a year (only 21% of people are above this line)
    • 33% of people making 200k+ a year

    Seems like increasing pay does reduce that issue even if there is an issue of spending to your max budget in america but I’d actually rather have currency in circulation than sitting in accounts for the sake of collecting.









  • Yeah it’s fine to not have the answers. Honestly I don’t think there are any just actions you can take and consequences to figure out after.

    I do agree we could probably do more to separate distracting news from useful news since there is a lot of it. And I think that’s a pretty interesting suggestion. And I think that kind of creative consideration is exactly what we need to make actions that we think might work, since it’s smaller than the huge goal all at once.


  • There seems to be this concept that humans do their best when under pressure and I really think that is wrong, heck science literally agrees with me and so does history.

    When people are uncomfortable and struggling they really just suck. Short fuse, anxiety, and uncreative. But during extremely peaceful and well funded times people prosper and contribute better. Look at how much we got out of the post world war 2 era of just funding and building more that gave us new genres of music and art and it’s from free time and comfort that people can get creative. Humans love to be lazy but get bored quick. It’s the center of all our innovation.

    So, I agree that a better world would give us better everything but not really actionable advice for the moment in here though right?