This a blast from the past.

It gets better as you go along.

Orville?

Restrictions and boundaries spur innovation.

Another Tesla innovation, fraud.

I heard the next model, the Tesla SS, with innovative features like doing Nazi salutes out the windows to indicate is going to be a huge hit.

The seeds of this started in the George Bush era and earlier.

The compliant press that cheer led the Iraq war.

The formation of an oligarchy that hugely influenced economic policy.

The attacks on experts, scientists and general modern science.

The vicious attacks on liberals and anybody else who opposed them.

The infiltration of far-right Christians into the highest levels of government and the military.

What a piece of shit.

In my view, Social media is a big factor in creating echo chambers and disinformation.

Everspace 2 is heaps of fun and looks fantastic.

Consolidation in markets has led to high prices, poor service, poor competition and bloated oligopolies.

Governments should be intervening to break up these oligopolies but have been captured by these vested interests.

WTF

Who is this picture of? She looks familiar.

Is she a movie star?

phpBB was the best.

The old forums I frequent have all seen their activity drop, which sucks.

I prefer the smaller forums centred around common interests. I made a load of friends through those forums.

I quit reddit recently and it occurred to me that after 10 years, I didn’t make a single friend on reddit.

It has basically been taken over by the IDF

I think 90% of the AI investments really have no commercial viability and are being developed to suck up clueless venture capital.

I’m older than 30.

Probably played one of your games.

Super curious here.

What game did you make?

The problem is that in a closed economy, an increase in production without increased consumption will result in over production and closed down factories.

It isn’t in capitalist’s long term interests to increase production and cut wages across an entire economy. Having a very high net savings rate (whatever you don’t consume is by definition, savings) is not a good thing as a country.

America’s early growth was based on being a high wage and high consumption country.

However, in an open economy, you can export your excess savings (and underconsumption) to other countries. This was an issue during the great depression (called “beggar thy neighbour”).

It is a big problem in the global economy right now with China, Taiwan, Korea, Germany, Denmark, etc. all having stagnant or low consumption shares of the economy while exporting their net savings to persistant trade deficit countries like the United States, UK, Australia and Canada (noting Australia and Canada sometimes have surpluses when commodity prices are high).

It relies on the net deficit countries being willing to accept net capital inflows and all the issues with having persistent trade deficits (deindustrialisation, high debts, etc.) forever, which isn’t possible.

So in short, increasing profits and cutting wages (and/or the overall workforce) might work for an individual greedy douchebag but it is a terrible thing for the entire economy.

Outside Musk subs like /r/elonmusk, /r/Tesla and /r/spacex, Elon is widely mocked across reddit.

Reddit is a shithole but let’s be real here.